Analytical Fifth-[sixth] Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the General Principles of Elocution [etc.]G. & C.W. Sherwood, 1867 |
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... natural position , and the opening of the mouth enlarged from side to side . Do not fear to say ah , star ; ah , calm ; ah , father ; ah , half . This is " Italian a . " Represent it by ä . A sound almost as fine and full as ä , is ...
... natural position , and the opening of the mouth enlarged from side to side . Do not fear to say ah , star ; ah , calm ; ah , father ; ah , half . This is " Italian a . " Represent it by ä . A sound almost as fine and full as ä , is ...
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... natural order , placing the subject of the sentence first . What is said to " shoot " ? What is meant by this ? Why the " expecting " eye in the last line ? What are fancied forms of air " ? Etymology and meaning of features ? profiled ...
... natural order , placing the subject of the sentence first . What is said to " shoot " ? What is meant by this ? Why the " expecting " eye in the last line ? What are fancied forms of air " ? Etymology and meaning of features ? profiled ...
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... natural hurry to escape from my shaggy foe , I had lost the marten- skin wherein I carried my flint , steel , and tinder . This was of little consequence ; I had often made a fire by the aid of my gun before , and I drew my knife and ...
... natural hurry to escape from my shaggy foe , I had lost the marten- skin wherein I carried my flint , steel , and tinder . This was of little consequence ; I had often made a fire by the aid of my gun before , and I drew my knife and ...
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... nature so tranquil , so cheerful , —all the sensations which come to them are so fresh and vigorous and pleasant , — that they cannot help viewing the world charitably , and seeing everything through a glorious medium . The ill- temper ...
... nature so tranquil , so cheerful , —all the sensations which come to them are so fresh and vigorous and pleasant , — that they cannot help viewing the world charitably , and seeing everything through a glorious medium . The ill- temper ...
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... nature has put his dog's body together so that it always works harmoniously . If every person in the world were gifted with a stomach and nerves like his , it would be a far better and happier world , no doubt . The man said a good ...
... nature has put his dog's body together so that it always works harmoniously . If every person in the world were gifted with a stomach and nerves like his , it would be a far better and happier world , no doubt . The man said a good ...
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Page 115 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway; And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Page 328 - Let me play the Fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? Sleep when he wakes?
Page 280 - Thou visitest the earth and waterest it : thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
Page 253 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles however specious the pretexts.
Page 395 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 228 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song...
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Page 253 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Page 56 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.