Willson's Intermediate Fifth Reader: On the Original Plan of the School and Family Series; Embracing, in Brief, the Principles of Rhetoric, Criticism, Eloquence, and Oratory, as Applied to Both Prose and Poetry. The Whole Adapted to Elocutionary InstructionHarper & brothers, 1870 - 372 páginas |
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... poem , the ignorance of the old peasant as to " what they killed each other for , " and " what good came of it at last " ( which might be appropriately asked of many other great battles ) , is a fitting commentary on the glory of the ...
... poem , the ignorance of the old peasant as to " what they killed each other for , " and " what good came of it at last " ( which might be appropriately asked of many other great battles ) , is a fitting commentary on the glory of the ...
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... poets , was born in the year 1790. He is better known under the assumed name of Barry Cornwall . The circumstance of the raven , mentioned at the close of the second verse of this lesson , is one of those beauties of description ...
... poets , was born in the year 1790. He is better known under the assumed name of Barry Cornwall . The circumstance of the raven , mentioned at the close of the second verse of this lesson , is one of those beauties of description ...
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... poem is mostly descriptive : but the first line of the 2d verse is di- dactic ( see p . 68 ) ; and the 3d verse is partly didactic and partly descriptive . The last three lines of the lesson contain a beautiful simile . ( See Simile , p ...
... poem is mostly descriptive : but the first line of the 2d verse is di- dactic ( see p . 68 ) ; and the 3d verse is partly didactic and partly descriptive . The last three lines of the lesson contain a beautiful simile . ( See Simile , p ...
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... sung in stone , a poem wrought in marble ' ! 4. Howsoever you look at the great Cathedral , it is noble , it is beautiful ! Wherever you stand in Milan , or within C seven miles of Milan , it is visible - and. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES . 49.
... sung in stone , a poem wrought in marble ' ! 4. Howsoever you look at the great Cathedral , it is noble , it is beautiful ! Wherever you stand in Milan , or within C seven miles of Milan , it is visible - and. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES . 49.
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... poets place the accent on the first syllable . Byron and Moore rhyme it with villain . See " Poetical Composition , " page 328 , Note . b Bäs - relief ( bä - re - leef ' ) ; also spelled and pronounced bass re lief ' : a species of ...
... poets place the accent on the first syllable . Byron and Moore rhyme it with villain . See " Poetical Composition , " page 328 , Note . b Bäs - relief ( bä - re - leef ' ) ; also spelled and pronounced bass re lief ' : a species of ...
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Aaron Burr Abimelech allegory allusion Analysis.-1 BATTLE OF BLENHEIM beautiful behold Blessed born called Catiline character Cicero comparison Daisy darkness death Demosthenes described didactic earth eloquence English example exclamation expression eyes falling inflection fancy father feel figures of speech give glory hand Hastings hath heart heaven HENRY KIRKE WHITE honor hundred idea illustration kind king land language LESSON light live look Lord Lord Lucan Lysias Merovingian metaphor mind monody morning narration narrative nature never night noble o'er object orator passion pause Personification poem poet poetic poetry Poppy preacher principles prose replied rising inflection Rule scene sentence Shechem simile soul South Carolina speak speaker style sublime sweet syllables talent thee thing THOMAS HOOD thou shalt thought thousand tion tone true truth unto verse voice wind words writer young
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Página 361 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 285 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last, feeble, and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced...
Página 101 - Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more ? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Página 79 - ... for expert men can execute and perhaps judge of particulars one by one, but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Página 243 - 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 The very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Página 285 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Página 233 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them ? To die to sleep No more and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.
Página 251 - O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying : Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Página 182 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Página 168 - Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.