The Eclectic Fourth Reader: Containing Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry, from the Best American and English Writers : with Copious Rules for Reading and Directions ... |
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... darkness spreads her jealous wings , And the night - raven sings ; There , under ebon shades and low brÅwed rocks , As ragged as thy locks , In dark Cimmerian darkness ever dwell . Questions . - 1 . When is a sentence said to be read in ...
... darkness spreads her jealous wings , And the night - raven sings ; There , under ebon shades and low brÅwed rocks , As ragged as thy locks , In dark Cimmerian darkness ever dwell . Questions . - 1 . When is a sentence said to be read in ...
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... dark blue ocean roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin his control Stops with the shore : - upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed , nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage , save ...
... dark blue ocean roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin his control Stops with the shore : - upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed , nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage , save ...
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... dark - rolling clouds of the north ? Lo ! the death - shot of foemen outspeeding , he rode Companionless , bearing destruction abroad ; -- But down let him stoop from his havoc on high ! 30. Ah ! home let him speed for the spoiler is ...
... dark - rolling clouds of the north ? Lo ! the death - shot of foemen outspeeding , he rode Companionless , bearing destruction abroad ; -- But down let him stoop from his havoc on high ! 30. Ah ! home let him speed for the spoiler is ...
Contents
DIRECTIONS FOR READING | 13 |
Falling Inflection | 20 |
The Town Pump | 23 |
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Absalom Ahimaaz Arth Babylon beautiful birds blessed boat bosom called cesura character child circumflex commenced consonants dark dear death deep Demosthenes ducats earth emphasis emphatic ERRORS ERRORS.1 eternity examples EXERCISES Explain the inflections eyes falling inflection father fault fear feel genius give hand happy hath head heard heart heaven hour inflections marked Joab kind king laws LESSON liberty light live Lochiel look Lord mind mother nature never o'er paragraph Parse passed pause poetry poor praise pronounced pupil QUESTIONS QUESTIONS.-1 reader Repeat rising inflection rocks Rule Rule II sentence ship Shylock sight smile Socrates soul sound SPELL AND DEFINE SPELL AND DEFINE.-1 spirit stanza sweet syllable Tell thee thing thought thousand thousand guineas tion tone unto utterance voice vowels William Reed wind wonderful words young