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ALEXANDER POPE ALFRED TENNYSON balance beauty brave Cæsar Carthage Chap CHARLES DICKENS clause comma Compare contrast dead death difference effect emotional England exclamation Explain expression eyes feel give gradation grouping hearers heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW honor ideas illustration imagination inflection inserted JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Julius Cæsar king leading live Longfellow look Lord main thought meaning mind modified words nature never night Note Notice paragraph patriotism pause phrases picture poem poet portion punctuation pupils question quotation rain reader relation repetition Rip Van Winkle Scene SELECTIONS AND SUGGESTIVE semicolons sentence ship song Song of Hiawatha speak speaker spirit stanza SUGGESTIVE STUDIES TEACH teacher tell tence thee things THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thou thought value tion Trace TURNER voice WASHINGTON IRVING WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ΙΟ
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Page 163 - 29. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Matthew 23:
Page 9 - 6. A little neglect may breed great mischief. For want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost ; being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horseshoe nail.
Page 147 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes • And whistles in his sound.
Page 394 - Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down. 'T was sad as sad could be ; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea ! All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the moon.
Page 292 - it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother ? And he said, I know not : Am I my brother's keeper ? 8.
Page 227 - 8. He gave it for his opinion that "whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground, where only one grew before, •would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together." Gulliver's Travels — JONATHAN SWIFT.
Page 143 - In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast ; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Locksley Hall
Page 472 - head sinks gradually low — 5 And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thundershower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.