McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Fourth Reader: Containing Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry, with Rules for Reading, and Exercises in Articulation, Defining, Etc. : Revised and Improved |
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... without any rule or guide . In cases of this kind , there seems to be a desire to cultivate variety of tone , without a knowledge of the principles upon which it should be done . Sometimes , TONES . 11 Tones, Inflections (nature of),
... without any rule or guide . In cases of this kind , there seems to be a desire to cultivate variety of tone , without a knowledge of the principles upon which it should be done . Sometimes , TONES . 11 Tones, Inflections (nature of),
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... principles upon which it should be done . Sometimes , also , there is a kind of regular variation , but still not connected with the sense . A sentence is commenced with vehemence , and in a high tone , and the voice gradually sinks ...
... principles upon which it should be done . Sometimes , also , there is a kind of regular variation , but still not connected with the sense . A sentence is commenced with vehemence , and in a high tone , and the voice gradually sinks ...
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... principle , the falling inflection takes place , according to the rule ; as , Truth is wonderful` , even more so than fiction . Men generally die as they live` , and by their lives we must judge of their character` . By industry we ...
... principle , the falling inflection takes place , according to the rule ; as , Truth is wonderful` , even more so than fiction . Men generally die as they live` , and by their lives we must judge of their character` . By industry we ...
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... principle of contrast and emphasis , ( as will hereafter be more fully explained , ) the sentence necessarily closes with the rising inflection . Sometimes also , emphasis alone seems to require the rising inflection on the concluding ...
... principle of contrast and emphasis , ( as will hereafter be more fully explained , ) the sentence necessarily closes with the rising inflection . Sometimes also , emphasis alone seems to require the rising inflection on the concluding ...
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... principles should give way . Which of them should yield , in any given case , must depend upon the construction of the sentence , the nature of the style and subject , and often , upon the taste of the speaker . RULE II . - Language ...
... principles should give way . Which of them should yield , in any given case , must depend upon the construction of the sentence , the nature of the style and subject , and often , upon the taste of the speaker . RULE II . - Language ...
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Abishai Absalom Ahimaaz Babylon beautiful birds blessed boat bosom called cataract cesura character child circumflex clouds dark dear death deep Demosthenes ducats earth emphasis emphatic eternity examples Explain the inflections eyes falling inflection father fear feel genius give hand happy hast hath head heard heart heaven horses hour inflections marked Joab kind king lesson light living look Lord Lord Dunmore mind mother nature never Niagara Falls nouns o'er object paragraph Parrhasius Parse passed pause peace Pinneo's Analytical Grammar poetry poor praise PRONOUNCE Correctly pupil QUESTIONS.-What rising inflection rocks rolling flight Rule Rule II scene seen sentence shalt ship Shylock smile Socrates soul sound spirit stanza sweet syllable teacher Tell thee thing thou thought thousand tion tone unto utter verbs voice waves wild William Reed wind words young
Popular passages
Page 124 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed. The mustering squadron, and the clattering car. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 193 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, — The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war, — These are thy toys, and as the snowy flake. They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 246 - Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: « Eyes have they, but they see not : They have ears, but they hear not: Noses have they, but they smell not : They have hands, but they handle not Feet have they, but they walk not : Neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them ; So is every one that + trusteth in them.
Page 193 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves
Page 212 - When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him; and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 182 - These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess, that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
Page 139 - Praise him ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens ; let them praise the name of the Lord ; for he commanded, and they were created.
Page 193 - Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 182 - The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
Page 116 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat, if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not.