The Standard Fifth Reader: (first-class Standard Reader) : for Public and Private Schools : Containing a Summary of Rules for Pronunciation and Elocution, Numerous Exercises for Reading and Recitation, a New System of Reference to Rules and Definitions, and a Copious Explanatory Index

Phillips, Sampson, 1856 - 478 pagine

Introductory Remarks	13

THOUGHTS TO DWELL	21

Gladiatorial Combat with a Tiger	29

Hymn	35

Fall of a Mountain	37

The Spring Shower	42

66	46

A Retrospective Review	48

an Allegory	219

A Rill from the Town Pump Part I	220

Is Knowledge Power?	240

LYTTON	242

Conversation Spoilers	248

The Youth of Washington	249

SELECT PASSAGES IN VERSE	256

Joan of Arc	259

On the Study of Words Part I	50

XIV	52

The Carrierpigeon	54

Spirit the Motive Power c	57

Affectation	60

The Folly of Castlebuilding	71

Practical Jokes	77

God	97

COWPER	138

LONGFELLOW	144

Queen Elizabeth	145

ADDISON	150

The Mind its own Educator	151

LLOYD	156

The Permanence of Words	160

BURGER	164

A Pupils Tribute c	167

Complaint of a Pair of Lungs Part I	170

Humanity of Robert Bruce	173

Photography or Lightdrawing	176

SELECT PASSAGES IN VERSE	177

Inconvenient Ignorance	181

Napoleon	183

Columbus and his Discovery	187

First Voyage of Columbus	191

Unity and Progress of Mankind	193

Reciprocal Kindness	197

A Storm in the Indian Ocean	200

The Prairies	203

The World of Water	206

The Best Kind of Revenge	213

The Beautiful	264

Abroad	266

Archimedes	275

Elegy in a Country Churchyard	276

Ferdinand and Isabella	281

Excelsior	285

THE REPUBLIC	287

What a Common Man may say	293

THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS	299

Adventure in Calabria	305

In Rome	307

MORAL AND RELIGIOUS ELOQUENCE	313

A Storm on the Mountains	333

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS	348

POETRY OF THE SEASONS PART III	374

DRAMATIC EXTRACTS	383

Passages from Shakspeare	391

an Ode	402

THE ELOQUENCE OF SCIENCE	404

SELECT PASSAGES IN VERSE	410

Pizarro in Peru	417

The Souls of Books	425

Human Science at Fault	427

POETRY OF THE SEASONS	433

Advice to an Affected Speaker	437

Proverbs of Solomon	443

The Daffodils	453

DIALOGUES	454

HEYWOOD	459

SCHOTTEL	470

FRANKLIN	471

Titolo	The Standard Fifth Reader: (first-class Standard Reader) : for Public and Private Schools : Containing a Summary of Rules for Pronunciation and Elocution, Numerous Exercises for Reading and Recitation, a New System of Reference to Rules and Definitions, and a Copious Explanatory Index Edizione 5 di Standard series, Epes Sargent
Autore	Epes Sargent
Editore	Phillips, Sampson, 1856
Provenienza dell'originale	la Biblioteca Pubblica di New York
Digitalizzato	3 mar 2009
Lunghezza	478 pagine

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