The Columbian Reader: Comprising a New and Various Selection of Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry, for the Use of Schools in the United States, to which is Prefixed an Introduction on the Arts of Reading and Speaking |
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Page ix
... attention and captivate the heart , are to be obtained . The correct and graceful reader or speaker , possesses a power little short of that ascribed to necromancers and magicians , of fascinating and enchaining the fancy , imagination ...
... attention and captivate the heart , are to be obtained . The correct and graceful reader or speaker , possesses a power little short of that ascribed to necromancers and magicians , of fascinating and enchaining the fancy , imagination ...
Page xi
... attention to the essential principles of the art of reading . This art does not consist , like that of acting , in really adopting the words and senti- ments of the writer it is sufficient that the reader recite what is written , in ...
... attention to the essential principles of the art of reading . This art does not consist , like that of acting , in really adopting the words and senti- ments of the writer it is sufficient that the reader recite what is written , in ...
Page xxi
... attention and practice . Ev- ery one who understands what he reads , cannot fail of finding out every emphatic word ; and his business then is to mark it properly ; not by stress only , as in the accented syllable , but by change of ...
... attention and practice . Ev- ery one who understands what he reads , cannot fail of finding out every emphatic word ; and his business then is to mark it properly ; not by stress only , as in the accented syllable , but by change of ...
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... attention and thereby to enforce sentiment , it would be better that such attention should remain asleep , than be awakened by those means which mislead the judg- ment and serve to communicate error . Reading should be considered as ...
... attention and thereby to enforce sentiment , it would be better that such attention should remain asleep , than be awakened by those means which mislead the judg- ment and serve to communicate error . Reading should be considered as ...
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... attention . These some- . times coincide with the sentential stops ; but more frequently occur where they are not expressed . Pauses in discourse , answer the same ends that shades do in pictures ; by the proper use of which , the ...
... attention . These some- . times coincide with the sentential stops ; but more frequently occur where they are not expressed . Pauses in discourse , answer the same ends that shades do in pictures ; by the proper use of which , the ...
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Page 196 - With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year; And oft thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks: And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves, in hollow-whispering gales.
Page 137 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits ; whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Page 198 - tis nought to me; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes, there must be joy. When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Page 165 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 163 - Disaster'd stands; sees other hills ascend, Of unknown joyless brow; and other scenes, Of horrid prospect, shag the trackless plain: Nor finds the river, nor the forest, hid Beneath the formless wild; but wanders on From hill to dale, still more and more astray; Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps, Stung with the thoughts of home; the thoughts of home Rush on his nerves, and call their vigour forth In many a vain attempt.
Page 149 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond...
Page 197 - As home he goes beneath the joyous Moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as Earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, ' Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. , Great source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On nature write with every beam his praise.
Page xvii - Who counsels best? who whispers, "Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place~
Page 137 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Page 195 - The Soul, of origin divine, GOD'S glorious image, freed from clay, In heaven's eternal sphere shall shine A star of day. " The SUN is but a spark of fire, A transient meteor in the sky ; The SOUL, immortal as its Sire, SHALL NEVER DIE.