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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... turned him round about , and went into his den ' , For well he knew the silly fly would soon be back ' again : So he wove a subtil web ' , in a little corner , sly , And set his table ready to dine upon the fly . Then he went out to his ...
... turned him round about , and went into his den ' , For well he knew the silly fly would soon be back ' again : So he wove a subtil web ' , in a little corner , sly , And set his table ready to dine upon the fly . Then he went out to his ...
Page 139
... turned back by the advance of a hunter from among the trees ; unluckily , however , we had our wildfire , Jack - o'lantern , little Frenchman to deal with . Instead of keeping quietly up the right side of the valley , to get above the ...
... turned back by the advance of a hunter from among the trees ; unluckily , however , we had our wildfire , Jack - o'lantern , little Frenchman to deal with . Instead of keeping quietly up the right side of the valley , to get above the ...
Page 255
... turned about to address myself to him a second time , but I found that he had left me . I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating ; but , instead of the rolling tide , the arched bridge , and the happy ...
... turned about to address myself to him a second time , but I found that he had left me . I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating ; but , instead of the rolling tide , the arched bridge , and the happy ...
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