The American Class-reader: Containing a Series of Lessons in Reading; with Introductory Exercises in Articulation, Inflection, Emphasis, and the Other Essential Elements of Correct Natural Elocution; Designed for Academies and Common Schools |
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... present , sylvan maids , Unlock your springs , || and open all your shades . The caesural pause is found in other than heroic verse : The heav'nly spheres to thee , O God , || attune their evening hymn ; All wise , all holy , thou art ...
... present , sylvan maids , Unlock your springs , || and open all your shades . The caesural pause is found in other than heroic verse : The heav'nly spheres to thee , O God , || attune their evening hymn ; All wise , all holy , thou art ...
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... present my vows unto him . And Aram's wrath was kindled and he called his ser- vants and they beat the stranger and drove him into the wil- derness now in the evening Aram lifted up his voice unto the Lord and prayed unto him and the ...
... present my vows unto him . And Aram's wrath was kindled and he called his ser- vants and they beat the stranger and drove him into the wil- derness now in the evening Aram lifted up his voice unto the Lord and prayed unto him and the ...
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... presents from me . It is not much that a poet can possibly have it in his power to give . When he has presented his own works , he may be supposed to have exhausted all means of donation . They are his only ' su- perfluity . There was a ...
... presents from me . It is not much that a poet can possibly have it in his power to give . When he has presented his own works , he may be supposed to have exhausted all means of donation . They are his only ' su- perfluity . There was a ...
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... presents a scene in the highest degree interesting and pleasing . Be- tween three and four o'clock , the lamp is hung up in the principal apartment , which answers the double purpose of a bed - chamber and sitting - room , and all the ...
... presents a scene in the highest degree interesting and pleasing . Be- tween three and four o'clock , the lamp is hung up in the principal apartment , which answers the double purpose of a bed - chamber and sitting - room , and all the ...
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... present The abhorred ingredient to his eye ; make known How he hath drúnk , he cracks his gorge , his sides With violent hefts . " - Shakspeare . LESSON XIX . Centennial Hymn . - PIERPONT . [ Sung in the Old South Meeting - house ...
... present The abhorred ingredient to his eye ; make known How he hath drúnk , he cracks his gorge , his sides With violent hefts . " - Shakspeare . LESSON XIX . Centennial Hymn . - PIERPONT . [ Sung in the Old South Meeting - house ...
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Page 53 - ... and when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him which owed him ten thousand talents, but forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down and worshipped him saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Page 204 - tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Page 112 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 263 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in : That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 151 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let g there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings : for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Page 189 - There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.
Page 262 - Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 31 - And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Page 68 - And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see ; and that they which see might be made blind.
Page 67 - These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.