The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on Elocution, Select and Classified Exercises in Reading and Declamation, with Biographical Sketches, and Copious Notes : Adapted to the Use of Students in Literature |
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... bright lands within the western main , Where we will build our home , what time the seas Weary thy gaze ; -there the broad palm - tree shades The soft and delicate light of skies as fair As those that slept on Eden ; -Nature , there ...
... bright lands within the western main , Where we will build our home , what time the seas Weary thy gaze ; -there the broad palm - tree shades The soft and delicate light of skies as fair As those that slept on Eden ; -Nature , there ...
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... bright hair Dabbled in blood ; and he shrieked out , aloud , — " CLARENCE is come - false , fleeting , perjured Clarence ; SEIZE on him , ye furies , take him to your torments . ” 3. MODERATE PITCH is that which is heard in common ...
... bright hair Dabbled in blood ; and he shrieked out , aloud , — " CLARENCE is come - false , fleeting , perjured Clarence ; SEIZE on him , ye furies , take him to your torments . ” 3. MODERATE PITCH is that which is heard in common ...
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... bright sparkling of the finest eye , To the soft soothing of a calm reply ? Can comeliness of form , or shape , or air , With comeliness of words or deeds compare ? No ! those at first the unwary heart may gain , But these , these only ...
... bright sparkling of the finest eye , To the soft soothing of a calm reply ? Can comeliness of form , or shape , or air , With comeliness of words or deeds compare ? No ! those at first the unwary heart may gain , But these , these only ...
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... bright Along the frozen river , And their arrōwy sparkles of brilliant light On the forest branches quiver . 2. Away ! away to the rocky glen , Where the deer are wildly bounding ! And the hills shall echo in gladness again , To the ...
... bright Along the frozen river , And their arrōwy sparkles of brilliant light On the forest branches quiver . 2. Away ! away to the rocky glen , Where the deer are wildly bounding ! And the hills shall echo in gladness again , To the ...
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... bright All space doth occupy , all motion guide ; Unchanged through time's all - děv'astating flight ; Thou only God ! There is no God beside ! 2. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ...
... bright All space doth occupy , all motion guide ; Unchanged through time's all - děv'astating flight ; Thou only God ! There is no God beside ! 2. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea ...
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Page 187 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 540 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Page 190 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 581 - The world recedes: it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy Victory? O Death! where is thy Sting.
Page 478 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, " Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 536 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Page 537 - Upon the growing Boy, But He beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The Youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
Page 188 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Page 190 - Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Page 212 - ... of business; 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.