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arms articulation ascending attention attract bend Bible blood breath called Carlyle Carver chapter clause Clavicular cnichts complex sentence compound sentence consonant sounds cried Dartmouth College dead death declarative deep Definite Interrogative delivered Descending Slide Dion Dolichos emotion emphasis Examples eyes fear fell followed Gavroche George William Curtis grammatical Guttural hand hear heard heart holy horse human voice inflections John Lew Wallace light lips look lungs Modulation murmur nasal veil never night normal quality occurs Oliver Orotund Quality partial fall passion pauses of imperfect Perfect Fall perfect sweep phatic Philoctetes pitch practice produced reconcentrados rose Rufus Choate Rule for Delivery rush Second Emphatic Sweep Semi-Interrogative sentiment Serapis Shakespeare shout sight silence sleep soul speaking speech stress is placed student syllable teeth tence thee thou thought throat tion tone tongue utterance vocal expression voice wave Whisper White Company wild
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Page 42 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 151 - Muse, that, on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of Chaos...
Page 98 - To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew.
Page 179 - Out of the world! In she plunged boldly — No matter how coldly The rough river ran — Over the brink of it, Picture it, — think of it, Dissolute Man! Lave in it, — drink of it, Then, if you can!
Page 30 - Put out the light, and then put out the light: If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
Page 134 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank, and fiery Hun, Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave!
Page 179 - Where the lamps quiver So far in the river, With many a light From window and casement, From garret to basement, She stood with amazement, Houseless by night. The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river ; Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled — Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran.
Page 41 - All this? Ay, more; fret till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how ^choleric you are, And make your +bondmen tremble. Must I ''"budge ? Must I observe you ? Must I stand and crouch Under your +testy humor ? By the gods, " You shall digest the venom of your spleen, Though it do split you...
Page 120 - So live that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 115 - What sighs have been wafted after that ship ! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home ! How often has the mistress, the wife, the mother, pored over the daily news, to catch some casual intelligence of this rover of the deep ! How has expectation darkened into anxiety — anxiety into dread — and dread into despair ! Alas ! not one memento shall ever return for love to cherish. All that shall ever be known, is, that she sailed from her port, « and was never heard of more ! »...