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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... deep sea ; and no tackle can draw him up . The curses of the exhausted seamen are " not loud , but deep . ' 77 3. On the twenty - eighth of May , 1817 , the Royal Bounty , an English ship , fell in with a great number of whales . There ...
... deep sea ; and no tackle can draw him up . The curses of the exhausted seamen are " not loud , but deep . ' 77 3. On the twenty - eighth of May , 1817 , the Royal Bounty , an English ship , fell in with a great number of whales . There ...
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... deep and 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 ...
... deep and 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 ...
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... deep melancholy , to see sev- eral dropping , unexpectedly , in the midst of mirth and jollity , and catching by every thing that stood by them , to save them- selves . Some were looking up towards the heavens in a thought- ful posture ...
... deep melancholy , to see sev- eral dropping , unexpectedly , in the midst of mirth and jollity , and catching by every thing that stood by them , to save them- selves . Some were looking up towards the heavens in a thought- ful posture ...
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 breath 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 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