McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Fourth Reader: Containing Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry, with Rules for Reading, and Exercises in Articulation, Defining, Etc. : Revised and ImprovedWinthrop B. Smith & Company, 1853 - 336 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 35
Page 30
... seemed proof against peril ' , and empowered with ubiquity` . The inflections in the above extract are chiefly explained by the principle of antithesis and series . Rules VI and II , 3 % , SEC . IV . 2 2 HAMLET'S REFLECTIONS ON SEEING ...
... seemed proof against peril ' , and empowered with ubiquity` . The inflections in the above extract are chiefly explained by the principle of antithesis and series . Rules VI and II , 3 % , SEC . IV . 2 2 HAMLET'S REFLECTIONS ON SEEING ...
Page 55
... seemed to recover himself , and started , with great speed , directly across the bows of the vessel , to windward . Mean- time the hands on board discovered the vessel to be gradually settling down by the bows ; and the pumps were to be ...
... seemed to recover himself , and started , with great speed , directly across the bows of the vessel , to windward . Mean- time the hands on board discovered the vessel to be gradually settling down by the bows ; and the pumps were to be ...
Page 76
... seemed to fall naturally to me . I was as contented as Diogenes in his tub . 5. " Thus the time passed ' , till the winter I entered my tenth year ' . The schoolmaster was preparing for a famous exhibition ' ; and as he knew how ...
... seemed to fall naturally to me . I was as contented as Diogenes in his tub . 5. " Thus the time passed ' , till the winter I entered my tenth year ' . The schoolmaster was preparing for a famous exhibition ' ; and as he knew how ...
Page 77
... seemed an Herculean task to me ' , and it was only my strong affection for my mother ' , that would have induced me to undertake ' it . 8. " The teacher had promised me , that , if I spoke my piece well , he would give me a silver medal ...
... seemed an Herculean task to me ' , and it was only my strong affection for my mother ' , that would have induced me to undertake ' it . 8. " The teacher had promised me , that , if I spoke my piece well , he would give me a silver medal ...
Page 78
... seemed to open in my head , and a light I can compare it to nothing else seemed to be let in to my brain . - 14. " I saw , or felt , -that perhaps would be more proper , ―every word of the lesson I had been learning , as though it were ...
... seemed to open in my head , and a light I can compare it to nothing else seemed to be let in to my brain . - 14. " I saw , or felt , -that perhaps would be more proper , ―every word of the lesson I had been learning , as though it were ...
Contents
34 | |
36 | |
40 | |
42 | |
44 | |
47 | |
48 | |
53 | |
54 | |
60 | |
61 | |
66 | |
67 | |
68 | |
72 | |
73 | |
75 | |
115 | |
135 | |
154 | |
160 | |
164 | |
208 | |
211 | |
219 | |
236 | |
256 | |
260 | |
270 | |
277 | |
281 | |
287 | |
321 | |
327 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abishai Absalom Ahimaaz Babylon beautiful birds blessed boat bosom called cataract cesura character child circumflex clouds dark dear death deep Demosthenes ducats earth emphasis emphatic eternity examples Explain the inflections eyes falling inflection father fear feel genius give hand happy hast hath head heard heart heaven horses hour inflections marked Joab kind king lesson light living look Lord Lord Dunmore mind mother nature never Niagara Falls nouns o'er object paragraph Parrhasius Parse passed pause peace Pinneo's Analytical Grammar poetry poor praise PRONOUNCE Correctly pupil QUESTIONS.-What rising inflection rocks rolling flight Rule Rule II scene seen sentence shalt ship Shylock smile Socrates soul sound spirit stanza sweet syllable teacher Tell thee thing thou thought thousand tion tone unto utter verbs voice waves wild William Reed wind words young
Popular passages
Page 124 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed. The mustering squadron, and the clattering car. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 193 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, — The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war, — These are thy toys, and as the snowy flake. They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 246 - Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: « Eyes have they, but they see not : They have ears, but they hear not: Noses have they, but they smell not : They have hands, but they handle not Feet have they, but they walk not : Neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them ; So is every one that + trusteth in them.
Page 193 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves
Page 212 - When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him; and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 182 - These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess, that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
Page 139 - Praise him ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens ; let them praise the name of the Lord ; for he commanded, and they were created.
Page 193 - Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 182 - The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
Page 116 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat, if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not.