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... Live .......... .313 .315 .315 Our Wee White Rose ...... · Massey .... .316 Blessings on Children ...... .... .Simms .317 True Love binds Soul and Body .. .319 The Various Roads to Fame ...... .Pollok ... .319 Earthly Reputation ...
... Live .......... .313 .315 .315 Our Wee White Rose ...... · Massey .... .316 Blessings on Children ...... .... .Simms .317 True Love binds Soul and Body .. .319 The Various Roads to Fame ...... .Pollok ... .319 Earthly Reputation ...
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... live and of the human family ; all we have learned of the progress of science and art . They give us the ideal creations of the novelist and the poet . They are the me- dium through which we have had transmitted to us the inspirations ...
... live and of the human family ; all we have learned of the progress of science and art . They give us the ideal creations of the novelist and the poet . They are the me- dium through which we have had transmitted to us the inspirations ...
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... lives - forever . Flake - follows flake , -like spirits Whose wings - the winds - dissever ; Thought - follows thought , -and lights- The realm of mind - forever . Beam - follows beam - to cheer The cloud - the bolt would shiver ; Throb ...
... lives - forever . Flake - follows flake , -like spirits Whose wings - the winds - dissever ; Thought - follows thought , -and lights- The realm of mind - forever . Beam - follows beam - to cheer The cloud - the bolt would shiver ; Throb ...
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... lives for the reason that they have never been taught where to place the tongue to insure a distinct utterance of the sounds of th and 8. They make the sound of th between the point of the tongue and the upper front teeth ; then instead ...
... lives for the reason that they have never been taught where to place the tongue to insure a distinct utterance of the sounds of th and 8. They make the sound of th between the point of the tongue and the upper front teeth ; then instead ...
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... live without further hazard . In the important exercise here recommended , each member of the class , after making some proficiency , memorizes and recites a strong and powerful sentence , and the others try to put out or break down the ...
... live without further hazard . In the important exercise here recommended , each member of the class , after making some proficiency , memorizes and recites a strong and powerful sentence , and the others try to put out or break down the ...
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accent arms aspirate Banquo Bardell beauty breath bright brow Burgundy burning bed circumflex dark dear death deep diatonic scale dream earth Echo ELIZA COOK elocution emphasis eternal exercises expression eyes face fall falsetto father fear feel fire flowers give glory glottis grave hand hath hear heard heart heaven Helon Hervé Riel Hezekiah inflection Jerusalem Jews king king of Assyria Lady Macb larynx Lear light lips look Lord loud mind morning mouth muscles never night o'er Othello Phocis Pickwick pitch of voice pray prolonged PSALM Queen rise rose round Shebna ship sing sleep smiled song soul sound speak speech spirit stars stood sweet sword syllables tell Th't thee thine thing thou thought tone tongue unto utter vocal voice-sound vowel vowel-sounds waves Weller wery wind wings words
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Page 159 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 165 - Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
Page 167 - One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after ; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion : in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me ; he shall set me up upon a rock.
Page 224 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band: — "Strike — till the last armed foe expires; Strike — for your altars and your fires; Strike — for the green graves of your sires, God — and your native land!
Page 260 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 109 - A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs?
Page 310 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well...
Page 80 - 11 not shed her blood ; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster, Yet she must die, else she '11 betray more men. 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...
Page 134 - And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward; from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers, — they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror, 'twas a pleasing fear; For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane, — as I do here.
Page 278 - To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going; And such an instrument I was to use. Mine eyes are made the fools o...