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... turning from my nursery window , drew A long , long sigh , and wept a last adièu . RULE 7. The last pause but one in a sentence , for the sake of variety and harmony , generally has the rising inflection . EXAMPLES . The minor longs to ...
... turning from my nursery window , drew A long , long sigh , and wept a last adièu . RULE 7. The last pause but one in a sentence , for the sake of variety and harmony , generally has the rising inflection . EXAMPLES . The minor longs to ...
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... turned deadly pale at the fatal rencounter . " I was first at the top , " said Bendearg , “ and called out first , lie down , that I may pass over in peace . ' " When Grant prostrates himself before Macpherson , " answered the other ...
... turned deadly pale at the fatal rencounter . " I was first at the top , " said Bendearg , “ and called out first , lie down , that I may pass over in peace . ' " When Grant prostrates himself before Macpherson , " answered the other ...
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... turned her keel to stone , And sealed his victory on her slippery shrouds . " They land ! They land ! - Forth they come From their long prison , hardy forms , that brave The world's unkindness , men of hoary hair , And virgins of firm ...
... turned her keel to stone , And sealed his victory on her slippery shrouds . " They land ! They land ! - Forth they come From their long prison , hardy forms , that brave The world's unkindness , men of hoary hair , And virgins of firm ...
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... one of a tribe of Indians recently living in Georgia , but now transferred to the Indian Territory . b Ves'per ; the goddess of evening . O , could she have turned , ere forever departed 92 TOWN'S FOURTH READER . Decisive Integrity,
... one of a tribe of Indians recently living in Georgia , but now transferred to the Indian Territory . b Ves'per ; the goddess of evening . O , could she have turned , ere forever departed 92 TOWN'S FOURTH READER . Decisive Integrity,
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... turned , ere forever departed , And beckoned , with smiles , to her sad Cherokee , 4. Great Spirit of Good , whose abode is the heaven , Whose wampum of peace is the bow in the sky , Wilt thou give to the wants of the clamorous raven ...
... turned , ere forever departed , And beckoned , with smiles , to her sad Cherokee , 4. Great Spirit of Good , whose abode is the heaven , Whose wampum of peace is the bow in the sky , Wilt thou give to the wants of the clamorous raven ...
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Page 373 - Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Page 45 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Page 401 - I ask gentlemen, sir, What means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
Page 48 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me of half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies; and what's his reason .' I am a jew : Hath not a jew eyes...
Page 373 - She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty; and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house...
Page 374 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there; And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead there reign alone.
Page 385 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand, undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 373 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, - the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods - rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 385 - And let us reflect, that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world ; during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking, through blood and slaughter, his long-lost liberty...
Page 74 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd...