Sadlier's Excelsior Fifth Reader: Containing a Comprehensive Treatise on Elocution, Illustrated with Diagrams, Select Readings and Recitations, Full Notes, and a Complete Supplementary IndexWilliam H. Sadlier, 1877 - 336 pages |
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... rose läughs , " She is near , she is near ; " And the white rose weeps , " She is late . " PAUS VII . PAUSES . I. DEFINITIONS . AUSES are 48 EXCELSIOR FIFTH READER . + * * * *
... rose läughs , " She is near , she is near ; " And the white rose weeps , " She is late . " PAUS VII . PAUSES . I. DEFINITIONS . AUSES are 48 EXCELSIOR FIFTH READER . + * * * *
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... rose - tree : THE The cow lows on the fragrant1 lea ; 2 The streamlet flōws all bright and free : ' Tis not for me - ' tis not for thee ; " Tis not for any one , I trōw : 4 The gentle wind blōwèth , The happy cow lōwèth , The merry ...
... rose - tree : THE The cow lows on the fragrant1 lea ; 2 The streamlet flōws all bright and free : ' Tis not for me - ' tis not for thee ; " Tis not for any one , I trōw : 4 The gentle wind blōwèth , The happy cow lōwèth , The merry ...
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... roses which adorned the key - stones have lost their leafy beauty ; every thing bears marks of the gradual dilapidations 10 of time , and yet has something touching and pleasing in its very decay . ' De cline ' , a sinking or lessen ...
... roses which adorned the key - stones have lost their leafy beauty ; every thing bears marks of the gradual dilapidations 10 of time , and yet has something touching and pleasing in its very decay . ' De cline ' , a sinking or lessen ...
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... roses Resting lightly on my cûrls ; Now was I not , sweet sister , The happiest of girls ? " 5. And Geraldine made answer From her convent by the sea : " God keep thee ever guileless In thy gayety and glee , But bear with me , beloved ...
... roses Resting lightly on my cûrls ; Now was I not , sweet sister , The happiest of girls ? " 5. And Geraldine made answer From her convent by the sea : " God keep thee ever guileless In thy gayety and glee , But bear with me , beloved ...
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... roses and orange blossoms Should gladden thy joyous hours . " 3. A mother wept o'er the lily- " In thy pallid beauty rare , Thou shalt lie on my dead child's bosom , For surely thy place is there ! " " Oh ! mourning , sorrowful mother ...
... roses and orange blossoms Should gladden thy joyous hours . " 3. A mother wept o'er the lily- " In thy pallid beauty rare , Thou shalt lie on my dead child's bosom , For surely thy place is there ! " " Oh ! mourning , sorrowful mother ...
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Page 290 - Shylock, we would have moneys': you say so; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say ' Hath a dog money ? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats...
Page 240 - Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Page 270 - Meanwhile, his friend, through alley and street, Wanders and watches with eager ears, Till in the silence around him he hears The muster of men at the barrack door, The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet, And the measured tread of the grenadiers, Marching down to their boats on the shore.
Page 274 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track, And one eye's black intelligence — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance; And the thick heavy spume-flakes, which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned; and cried Joris, "Stay spur! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her; "We'll remember at Aix...
Page 288 - Yes, to smell pork ; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following ; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Page 46 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 278 - Came through the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred.
Page 229 - 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' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thy azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Page 273 - It was one by the village clock When he galloped into Lexington. He saw the gilded weathercock Swim in the moonlight as he passed, And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare, Gaze at him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. It was two by the village clock "When he came to the bridge in Concord town.
Page 229 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime, 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.