Town's Third Reader: Containing a Selection of Lessons, Exclusively from American AuthorsH. & E. Phinney, 1848 - 288 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 8
... leaves the letter unknown , or assimilates the sound to some other . EXAMPLES . 66 I mean to say " government , " but seem to say gov- ermunt . " I mean to say " proceed , " but nothing is heard but " 6 prcede ; " leaving it uncertain ...
... leaves the letter unknown , or assimilates the sound to some other . EXAMPLES . 66 I mean to say " government , " but seem to say gov- ermunt . " I mean to say " proceed , " but nothing is heard but " 6 prcede ; " leaving it uncertain ...
الصفحة 15
... leave thee , Far in heathen lands to dwell ? RULE 3. When the thought is sublime , the language bold and energetic , the utterance and inflections must correspond in character . EXAMPLES . ADDRESS TO MONT BLANC . Thou kingly spirit ...
... leave thee , Far in heathen lands to dwell ? RULE 3. When the thought is sublime , the language bold and energetic , the utterance and inflections must correspond in character . EXAMPLES . ADDRESS TO MONT BLANC . Thou kingly spirit ...
الصفحة 22
... leaves of autumnn , and they are gone forever . They pass mournfully by us , and they return no more . Two centuries ago , the smoke of their wigwams and the fires of their councils rose in every valley , from Hud- son's Bay to the ...
... leaves of autumnn , and they are gone forever . They pass mournfully by us , and they return no more . Two centuries ago , the smoke of their wigwams and the fires of their councils rose in every valley , from Hud- son's Bay to the ...
الصفحة 23
... leave their miserable homes , the aged , the helpless , the women , and the warriors , " few and faint , yet fearless still . " The ashes are cold on their native hearths . The smoke no longer curls round their lowly cabins . They move ...
... leave their miserable homes , the aged , the helpless , the women , and the warriors , " few and faint , yet fearless still . " The ashes are cold on their native hearths . The smoke no longer curls round their lowly cabins . They move ...
الصفحة 24
... leaves be- hind him . Rome falls before the adventurous and de- structive Goth ; and for a moment the world seems darkened ; but vast causes , new materials , conflicting elements , are silently at work to produce order out of apparent ...
... leaves be- hind him . Rome falls before the adventurous and de- structive Goth ; and for a moment the world seems darkened ; but vast causes , new materials , conflicting elements , are silently at work to produce order out of apparent ...
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accent antepenult arts Aunt Betty Aurelian beautiful beneath bosom bowsprit breeze bright circumflex clouds Columbus consonant dark dead deep earth escutcheons fall feel feet fire flowers forest friends gaze give glorious glory Goth grave Hafed hand happy heart heaven hour human human voice hundred inflections Jonathan Kilauea King labor land lava LESSON light living look lordship MAMMOTH CAVE mastiff mighty miles Miller mind morning mountains nations nature ness never night o'er ocean passed penult Percy Pompeii repose rising rocks roll Rome round Rule SALEM TOWN scene seemed shore side silent smile Snacks solemn soul sound spirit splendor stalactites stand stars storm stream sublime sweet syllable tears tempest temple thee thing thou thought thousand thunder tone trees utterance vast voice waters waves Westminster Abbey wild wind wonders wooded crater
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الصفحة 213 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
الصفحة 16 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! Let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
الصفحة 15 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these...
الصفحة 222 - Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gazo with admiration, forever I VOL.
الصفحة 13 - But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison ; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
الصفحة 228 - Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it.
الصفحة 222 - Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
الصفحة 250 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence, — a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task ; which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union, and the patronage of heaven.
الصفحة 147 - Oh, the grave! The grave! It buries every error — covers every defect — extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy and not feel a compunctious throb that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies moldering before him.
الصفحة 148 - If thou art a child, and hast ever added a sorrow to the soul, or a furrow to the silvered brow of an affectionate parent; if thou art a husband, and hast ever caused the fond bosom that ventured its whole happiness in thy arms to doubt one moment of thy kindness or thy truth...