The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on Elocution ...: With Biographical Sketches, and Copious Notes: Adapted to the Use of Students in Literature, Book 5A.S. Barnes & Company, 1871 - 581 pages |
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... England , on the 15th of Au- gust , 1785. He passed his childhood in rural retirement . He was matriculated at Oxford , at Christinas , 1803 , being then in his nineteenth year , where he re- mained till 1808. He resided for twenty ...
... England , on the 15th of Au- gust , 1785. He passed his childhood in rural retirement . He was matriculated at Oxford , at Christinas , 1803 , being then in his nineteenth year , where he re- mained till 1808. He resided for twenty ...
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... England , April 27th , 1737 , and died January 16th , 1794 . 2 Le Ŏn'i das , the first of the name , king of Sparta , immortalized by his glorious defense of the pass of Ther- mopylæ against Xerxes , reigned from 491 to 480 B. C. ...
... England , April 27th , 1737 , and died January 16th , 1794 . 2 Le Ŏn'i das , the first of the name , king of Sparta , immortalized by his glorious defense of the pass of Ther- mopylæ against Xerxes , reigned from 491 to 480 B. C. ...
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... England , in 1612. He was among the earliest of those whom religious opinion induced to seek a home in America . He was appointed governor of Massachusetts in 1635 , returned to England the following year , married there , entered ...
... England , in 1612. He was among the earliest of those whom religious opinion induced to seek a home in America . He was appointed governor of Massachusetts in 1635 , returned to England the following year , married there , entered ...
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... England , and was successively curate of Shipton , in Gloucester- shire , and of Sedgefield , in the county of Durham . Ill health compelled him to 1 Diapason , ( dl`a påʼzon ) , in music , the octave or interval which includes all the ...
... England , and was successively curate of Shipton , in Gloucester- shire , and of Sedgefield , in the county of Durham . Ill health compelled him to 1 Diapason , ( dl`a påʼzon ) , in music , the octave or interval which includes all the ...
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... England , in 1815 , a reverse of fortune changed the whole tenor of his life , causing him to resort to literature , which had hitherto been his amusement , for solace and support . The first fruit of this change was " The Sketch Book ...
... England , in 1815 , a reverse of fortune changed the whole tenor of his life , causing him to resort to literature , which had hitherto been his amusement , for solace and support . The first fruit of this change was " The Sketch Book ...
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Page 493 - Tis now the very witching time of night When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Page 58 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Page 545 - All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone— They are neither man nor woman, They are neither brute nor human, They are Ghouls...
Page 186 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Page 206 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. That is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 447 - The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 249 - 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 hailed the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not : his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away...
Page 185 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault ; The village all declared how much he knew — Twas certain he could write, and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage. And e'en the story ran that he could gauge.
Page 390 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard.
Page 183 - His house was known to all the vagrant train. He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.