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... taken care of ' . NOTE II . - When , in contrasted sentences , negation is attended with deep and calm feeling , it requires the falling inflection . EXAMPLE . - We are perplexed ' , but not in despair ' ; persecuted ' , but not ...
... taken care of ' . NOTE II . - When , in contrasted sentences , negation is attended with deep and calm feeling , it requires the falling inflection . EXAMPLE . - We are perplexed ' , but not in despair ' ; persecuted ' , but not ...
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... taken the rising slide . It is this . One morning William was told by his father that he must do a certain piece of work in the garden . At noon he was again reminded that the work must be done , when William asked , " Must the work be ...
... taken the rising slide . It is this . One morning William was told by his father that he must do a certain piece of work in the garden . At noon he was again reminded that the work must be done , when William asked , " Must the work be ...
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... taken for granted that the reader is able to execute readily all those inflections and modulations of voice that are required in the various kinds of elocutionary reading . But may not some useful directions be given for the cultivation ...
... taken for granted that the reader is able to execute readily all those inflections and modulations of voice that are required in the various kinds of elocutionary reading . But may not some useful directions be given for the cultivation ...
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... taken not to strain the voice by over - exertion ; and , in the second place , when the entire piece read or spoken requires a high pitch , we must avoid the evil of a loud and vociferous beginning . Thus , in the following passage from ...
... taken not to strain the voice by over - exertion ; and , in the second place , when the entire piece read or spoken requires a high pitch , we must avoid the evil of a loud and vociferous beginning . Thus , in the following passage from ...
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... taken in great numbers in early spring , and is then very fat . 3. Among the river tortoises is the well - known alligator tortoise , or snapping turtle , which derives its name from its propensity to snap at every thing within its ...
... taken in great numbers in early spring , and is then very fat . 3. Among the river tortoises is the well - known alligator tortoise , or snapping turtle , which derives its name from its propensity to snap at every thing within its ...
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Page 275 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart : If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority : To do a great right do a little wrong ; And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page 488 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore — Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Page 82 - You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not.
Page 534 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on : 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the " Nervii: Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Page 220 - In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people - ah, the people They that dwell up in the steeple...
Page 531 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony ; who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth...
Page 219 - Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the future!
Page 82 - All this! ay, more: fret till your proud heart break; Go show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge? Must I observe you? must I stand and crouch Under your testy humour? By the gods, You shall digest the venom of your spleen, Though it do split you; for, from this day forth, I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter, When you are waspish.
Page 486 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy; for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is...
Page 487 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of, forgotten lore, — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. '"Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door: Only this and nothing more.