The Fifth Or Elocutionary Reader: In which the Principles of Elocution are Illustrated by Reading Exercises in Connection with the Rules ; Designed for the Use of School and AcademiesPhinney & Company, 1859 - 480 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Æneid Amphibrach anapestic ancient ancient Greece arms beauty behold born bright brother Cæsar called Cato character circumflex clauses clouds commence dactylic darkness death Demosthenes denote direct question earth elementary sounds emotions emphasis emphatic emphatic series epic poetry eternal EXERCISE expressed falling inflection father feelings feet genius Give an example glory grave hand happy hast hath head heard heart heaven hills honor hope human iambic Julius Cæsar kind labor land language LESSON liberty light live look Lord Metonymy Micipsa mighty mind mountain nature never night NOTE o'er ocean open vowel passion pause poetry pronounce pupil reading require the falling rising inflection Roman Rome rule Saladin sentence sentiment Socrates soul speak spirit spondee stars stress sub-vocals sublime Synecdoche thee thou thought tion trochaic trochee utterance verse Virgil virtue voice waves words Xerxes youth
Pasajes populares
Página 188 - 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 ! I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me: Was that done like Cassius?
Página 326 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Página 330 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, " Surely," said I, " man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Página 273 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Página 263 - And, sir, where American liberty raised its first voice; and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives, in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit. If discord and disunion shall wound...
Página 230 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid; Star of the east, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Página 469 - Pale Hecate's offerings : and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Página 89 - There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Página 188 - For I can raise no money by vile means: 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.
Página 469 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.