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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Page 306
... young - a boy ! so intrepid ! so prompt ! so graceful ! so cloquent , too ! -for , knowing the effect of eloquence , and feeling the loftiness of his own nature , the innocence of his own heart , the character of the Indians for ...
... young - a boy ! so intrepid ! so prompt ! so graceful ! so cloquent , too ! -for , knowing the effect of eloquence , and feeling the loftiness of his own nature , the innocence of his own heart , the character of the Indians for ...
Page 351
... young indeed , In full content we sometimes nobly rest , Unanxious for ourselves , and only wish , As duteous sons , our fathers were more wise . At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty , and reforms his plan ; At ...
... young indeed , In full content we sometimes nobly rest , Unanxious for ourselves , and only wish , As duteous sons , our fathers were more wise . At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty , and reforms his plan ; At ...
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... young Lochinvar . 6. So stately his form , and so lovely her face , That never a hall such a galliard did grace ; While her mother did fret , and her father did fume , And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume ; And the ...
... young Lochinvar . 6. So stately his form , and so lovely her face , That never a hall such a galliard did grace ; While her mother did fret , and her father did fume , And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume ; And the ...
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