McGuffey's Newly Revised Rhetorical Guide: Or, Fifth Reader of the Eclectic Series. Containing Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: with Copious Rules and Rhetorical Exercises |
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... thousand spears in rest , A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow - white crest , And in they burst , and on they rushed , while , like a guiding star , Amid the thickest + carnage , blazed the helmet of Navarre . 5. Now ...
... thousand spears in rest , A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow - white crest , And in they burst , and on they rushed , while , like a guiding star , Amid the thickest + carnage , blazed the helmet of Navarre . 5. Now ...
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... thousand fearful wrecks ; A thousand men , that fishes gnawed upon ; Wedges of gold , great anchors , heaps of pearl , Inestimable stones , unvalued jewels , All scattered in the bottom of the sea . Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and ...
... thousand fearful wrecks ; A thousand men , that fishes gnawed upon ; Wedges of gold , great anchors , heaps of pearl , Inestimable stones , unvalued jewels , All scattered in the bottom of the sea . Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and ...
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... thousand instances might easily be adduced , illustrative of the same metaphorical use of the terms in question . 2. There is something so congenial to our nature in light , something so repulsive in darkness , that , probably on this ...
... thousand instances might easily be adduced , illustrative of the same metaphorical use of the terms in question . 2. There is something so congenial to our nature in light , something so repulsive in darkness , that , probably on this ...
Contents
PART I | 13 |
The Hour of Prayer | 15 |
Character of Napoleon Bonaparte | 20 |
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