The American Class-reader: Containing a Series of Lessons in Reading : with Introductory Exercises in Articulation, Inflection, Emphasis, and the Other Essential Elements of Correct Natural Elocution; Designed for Academies and Common Schools |
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... rests , amends , prevail , numero " lifts , casts , clothes , prevent , commandments , authoritatively , defects , facts , fields , proceed , offerings , persists , softly , friends , belong , utterance , 2 terrestrial , reasonableness ...
... rests , amends , prevail , numero " lifts , casts , clothes , prevent , commandments , authoritatively , defects , facts , fields , proceed , offerings , persists , softly , friends , belong , utterance , 2 terrestrial , reasonableness ...
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... rest are all Iambics . So in the annexed couplet , the first line commences with two short syllables , succeeded by two long ones : What the weak head with strōngest bias rūles , Is pride , the never - failing vice of fools . And in the ...
... rest are all Iambics . So in the annexed couplet , the first line commences with two short syllables , succeeded by two long ones : What the weak head with strōngest bias rūles , Is pride , the never - failing vice of fools . And in the ...
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... surprise , and producing a fine effect : Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn . Rhetorical and other Pauses . Besides the rests of punctuation 38 AMERICAN CLASS - READER .
... surprise , and producing a fine effect : Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn . Rhetorical and other Pauses . Besides the rests of punctuation 38 AMERICAN CLASS - READER .
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... rests of punctuation , which , under the names of comma , colon , semicolon , & c . , mark the divisions of a sentence ... rest long enough to count one ; at a semi- colon , two ; and so on : and at a period he is taught always to make a ...
... rests of punctuation , which , under the names of comma , colon , semicolon , & c . , mark the divisions of a sentence ... rest long enough to count one ; at a semi- colon , two ; and so on : and at a period he is taught always to make a ...
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... rest upon my head in blessing , it was so cold it made me start . I bowed down by her side and sobbed in the bitterness of my heart . I thought then , I wished I could die , and be buried with her ; and , old as I now am , I would give ...
... rest upon my head in blessing , it was so cold it made me start . I bowed down by her side and sobbed in the bitterness of my heart . I thought then , I wished I could die , and be buried with her ; and , old as I now am , I would give ...
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AMERICAN CLASS-READER animals answer Balclutha beauty behold beneath birds blessed blind blood body Cæsar called circumflex clothes cried David dead death Dorchester Heights earth En-gedi eyes face fall Falstaff father feet gave give grave ground hand happy hath head hear heard heart heaven honor hour Iago Icelandic inflection Israel Jesus king kingdom of Israel leprosy LESSON light live look Lord madam mighty good kind morning mother Naaman nature nest never night o'er Old South church pass pause Pharisees Philistines poor praise pray prayer replied rest Rhadamanthus rising slide Saul Saul rose servants shalt sight smile Socrates soul sound spake speak spirit stood tears tell thine thing thou art thou hast thought tion tree trembling Trochee unto thee voice wind wings words