The Young Ladies' Reader: Containing Rules, Observations, and Exercises and Articulation, Pauses, Inflections, and Emphasis: Also Exercises in Reading, in Prose and PoetryThomas, Cowperthwait, 1851 - 428 pagini |
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Pagina 22
... object is to obtain pre- cise information on that point . But if he should say , " Is it the spade that is broken ? " he would lay the emphasis on the word " spade , " and not upon " broken ; " because , under- standing that there is ...
... object is to obtain pre- cise information on that point . But if he should say , " Is it the spade that is broken ? " he would lay the emphasis on the word " spade , " and not upon " broken ; " because , under- standing that there is ...
Pagina 23
... object in making the inquiry is , to learn the name of the person who broke it . And , lastly , should he say , " How was the spade broken ? " he would make " how " the emphatic word ; be- cause , in this case , he wishes to be informed ...
... object in making the inquiry is , to learn the name of the person who broke it . And , lastly , should he say , " How was the spade broken ? " he would make " how " the emphatic word ; be- cause , in this case , he wishes to be informed ...
Pagina 31
... object without , that can flatter his senses , have conspired with the enemy within , to betray him and put him off his defence ; when Music likewise hath lent her aid , and tried her power upon the passions ; when the voice of singing ...
... object without , that can flatter his senses , have conspired with the enemy within , to betray him and put him off his defence ; when Music likewise hath lent her aid , and tried her power upon the passions ; when the voice of singing ...
Pagina 39
... the righteous hath hope in his death . Righteousness exalteth a nation ; but sin is a reproach to any people . Almost every object that attracts our notice has its bright PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION . 39 Antithetic Sentences,
... the righteous hath hope in his death . Righteousness exalteth a nation ; but sin is a reproach to any people . Almost every object that attracts our notice has its bright PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION . 39 Antithetic Sentences,
Pagina 40
Also Exercises in Reading, in Prose and Poetry William Draper Swan. Almost every object that attracts our notice has its bright and its dark side . He who habituates himself to look at the dark side will sour his disposition , and ...
Also Exercises in Reading, in Prose and Poetry William Draper Swan. Almost every object that attracts our notice has its bright and its dark side . He who habituates himself to look at the dark side will sour his disposition , and ...
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Pagina 58 - NOW, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons...
Pagina 66 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Pagina 242 - In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior! "Try not the Pass!
Pagina 44 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Pagina 61 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
Pagina 60 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Pagina 33 - With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Pagina 62 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not ' seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly : these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play : But I have that within which passeth show ; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Pagina 38 - Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Pagina 330 - mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags : so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy God Utters, who from eternity doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself.