The Graded-school First-fifth Reader, Book 5Van Antwerp, Bragg & Company, 1875 - Readers |
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... never . 8. Why are you so exceedingly forgetful ? 9. Shut the door and come to the hearth . 10. They were suffocated by the impetuosity of the wind . 4. Omission and addition of syllables . EXAMPLES . CORRECT . INCORRECT . CORRECT ...
... never . 8. Why are you so exceedingly forgetful ? 9. Shut the door and come to the hearth . 10. They were suffocated by the impetuosity of the wind . 4. Omission and addition of syllables . EXAMPLES . CORRECT . INCORRECT . CORRECT ...
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... never is , but always to be , blest . The monotone is the utterance of successive sylla- bles in one unvaried key , and is marked thus ( − ) ; as , Roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean , roll . RULES FOR INFLECTION . REMARK . The ...
... never is , but always to be , blest . The monotone is the utterance of successive sylla- bles in one unvaried key , and is marked thus ( − ) ; as , Roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean , roll . RULES FOR INFLECTION . REMARK . The ...
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... never lay down my arms - never ! never ! never ! RULE III . Interrogative sentences and parts of sentences which can not be answered by yes or no , require the falling inflection . EXAMPLES . 1. How long have I to wait` ? 2. No ' , I ...
... never lay down my arms - never ! never ! never ! RULE III . Interrogative sentences and parts of sentences which can not be answered by yes or no , require the falling inflection . EXAMPLES . 1. How long have I to wait` ? 2. No ' , I ...
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... never go to war . 3. You do not know him , as we do . 4. Those are good rules and golden for a landlord . 5. Oh , but he paused upon the brink . 6. No doubt ye are the people , and wisdom will die with you . - 7. They follow an ...
... never go to war . 3. You do not know him , as we do . 4. Those are good rules and golden for a landlord . 5. Oh , but he paused upon the brink . 6. No doubt ye are the people , and wisdom will die with you . - 7. They follow an ...
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... never goes . 6. Wit laughs at things ; humor laughs with them . 7. A friend can not be known in prosperity : an enemy can not be hidden in adversity . REMARK . - Sometimes the antithesis is implied . EXAMPLES . 1. A complete man should ...
... never goes . 6. Wit laughs at things ; humor laughs with them . 7. A friend can not be known in prosperity : an enemy can not be hidden in adversity . REMARK . - Sometimes the antithesis is implied . EXAMPLES . 1. A complete man should ...
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Popular passages
Page 135 - THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Page 278 - I SPRANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gatebolts undrew ; "Speed...
Page 109 - THEN the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, WHO is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man ; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Page 98 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Page 310 - Laertes' head.'] And these few precepts in thy memory. Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment • Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade.
Page 309 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits, and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; And then, the whining school-boy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school: And then, the lover; Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress...
Page 312 - All murder'd; for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 176 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt.
Page 109 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner-stone thereof: When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 315 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..