McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical Reading, with Introductory Rules and Examples |
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... changed or in- creased in force or extent . Where the rising inflection is ordinarily used , the word , when emphatic , frequently takes the falling inflection ; and sometimes , also , the falling inflection is changed into the rising ...
... changed or in- creased in force or extent . Where the rising inflection is ordinarily used , the word , when emphatic , frequently takes the falling inflection ; and sometimes , also , the falling inflection is changed into the rising ...
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... changed from the rising to the falling inflection ; in the last three , it is changed from the falling to the rising , by the influence of emphasis . EXAMPLES . 1. If we have no regard for religion in youth` , we ought to have respect ...
... changed from the rising to the falling inflection ; in the last three , it is changed from the falling to the rising , by the influence of emphasis . EXAMPLES . 1. If we have no regard for religion in youth` , we ought to have respect ...
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... changed from the rising to the falling , by the force of emphasis . Give one , in which it is changed from the falling to the rising . What is an emphatic phrase ? Give an example ? meant by the emphatic pause ? Give an example . What ...
... changed from the rising to the falling , by the force of emphasis . Give one , in which it is changed from the falling to the rising . What is an emphatic phrase ? Give an example ? meant by the emphatic pause ? Give an example . What ...
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... changed , like its chieftain . No light canoe now shot down the river , like a bird upon the wing . The laden boat of the white man alone broke its smooth surface . The English- man's road wound like a serpent around the banks of the ...
... changed , like its chieftain . No light canoe now shot down the river , like a bird upon the wing . The laden boat of the white man alone broke its smooth surface . The English- man's road wound like a serpent around the banks of the ...
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... changed my plan , and instead of telling my own misfortunes , began to prophesy happiness to others` . 6. " This I found by much the better way . Folks will always listen when the tale is their own` , and of many who say they do not ...
... changed my plan , and instead of telling my own misfortunes , began to prophesy happiness to others` . 6. " This I found by much the better way . Folks will always listen when the tale is their own` , and of many who say they do not ...
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Page 254 - Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honorable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know.
Page 424 - The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, And he delighteth in his way ; Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.
Page 198 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, - the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods - rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 198 - His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee. As the long train Of ages glide away, the sons of men, The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes In the full strength of years, matron, and maid...
Page 415 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They'll have fleet steeds that follow,
Page 354 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 309 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 136 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Page 253 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Page 365 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their' vile trash By any indirection.