The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Treatise on Elocution, Exercises in Reading and Declamation, with Biographical Sketches, and Copious Notes : Adapted to the Use of Students in English and American Literature |
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... published the first volume in February , 1776 , and completed it on the 27th of June , 1787. They who have read it , so far from wondering at the time consumed in its preparation , a period of twenty - one years , are amazed at the ...
... published the first volume in February , 1776 , and completed it on the 27th of June , 1787. They who have read it , so far from wondering at the time consumed in its preparation , a period of twenty - one years , are amazed at the ...
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... published “ The House by the Sea " and " The New Pastoral , ” - the latter , in thirty - seven books , from which the above extract is taken , being the longest of his poems . Mr. Read's distinguishing characteristic is a delicate and ...
... published “ The House by the Sea " and " The New Pastoral , ” - the latter , in thirty - seven books , from which the above extract is taken , being the longest of his poems . Mr. Read's distinguishing characteristic is a delicate and ...
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... published in 1801 ; " The Sabbath , ” from which the above selection is taken ; " Sabbath Walks , " " Riblical Pic- tures , " " The Birds of Scotland , " and " British Georgics , " all in blank verse . " The Sabbath " is the best of his ...
... published in 1801 ; " The Sabbath , ” from which the above selection is taken ; " Sabbath Walks , " " Riblical Pic- tures , " " The Birds of Scotland , " and " British Georgics , " all in blank verse . " The Sabbath " is the best of his ...
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... published in the Morning Chronicle , of which one of his brothers was editor , in 1802. In 1806 , after his return ... published in New York and London in 1819 and 1820 , and which met a success never before re- ceived by a book of ...
... published in the Morning Chronicle , of which one of his brothers was editor , in 1802. In 1806 , after his return ... published in New York and London in 1819 and 1820 , and which met a success never before re- ceived by a book of ...
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... published in 1800. In 1804 , having obtained a registarship in Bermuda , he went out to discharge the duties of the office . It proved much less lucrative than he expected ; and in a few months he returned home , from which time his ...
... published in 1800. In 1804 , having obtained a registarship in Bermuda , he went out to discharge the duties of the office . It proved much less lucrative than he expected ; and in a few months he returned home , from which time his ...
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Page 295 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 38 - 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.
Page 561 - 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 189 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school : A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew ; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face...
Page 514 - For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am...
Page 190 - Thither no more the peasant shall repair To sweet oblivion of his daily care; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale, No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail ; No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear...
Page 566 - Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping; and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you.
Page 466 - Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain— Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! 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...
Page 515 - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die : And that which thou sowest thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain : But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased Him and to every seed his own body.
Page 561 - 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 thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld thou rollest now.