McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader. William Holmes McGuffey

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СКАЧАТЬ CXI. THE BRIDGE. (392)

       CXII. OBJECTS AND LIMITS OF SCIENCE. (394)

       CXIII. THE DOWNFALL OF POLAND. (396)

       CXIV. LABOR. (398)

       CXVI. HOW MEN REASON. (405)

       CXVII. THUNDERSTORM ON THE ALPS. (408)

       CXVIII. ORIGIN OF PROPERTY. (410)

       CXIX. BATTLE OF WATERLOO. (415)

       CXX. "WITH BRAINS, SIR." (417)

       CXXI. THE NEW ENGLAND PASTOR. (419)

       CXXII. DEATH OF ABSALOM. (420)

       CXXIII. ABRAHAM DAVENPORT. (424)

       CXXIV. THE FALLS OF THE YOSEMITE. (426)

       CXXV. A PSALM OF LIFE. (429)

       CXXVI. FRANKLIN'S ENTRY INTO PHILADELPHIA. (431)

       CXXVII. LINES TO A WATERFOWL. (434)

       CXXVIII. GOLDSMITH AND ADDISON. (435)

       CXXIX. IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. (438)

       CXXX. CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON. (440)

       CXXXI. EULOGY ON WASHINGTON. (444)

       CXXXII. THE SOLITARY REAPER. (446)

       CXXXIII. VALUE OF THE PRESENT. (447)

       CXXXIV. HAPPINESS. (451)

       CXXXV. MARION. (453)

       CXXXVI. A COMMON THOUGHT. (456)

       CXXXVII. A DEFINITE AIM IN READING. (457)

       CXXXVIII. ODE TO MT. BLANC. (462)

      INTRODUCTION.

      SUBJECT. PAGE I. ARTICULATION 11 II. INFLECTION 18 III. ACCENT AND EMPHASIS 33 IV. INSTRUCTIONS FOR READING VERSE 39 V. THE VOICE 40 VI. GESTURE 55

      SELECTIONS FOR READING. (5)

       Table of Contents

      TITLE. AUTHOR. PAGE. 1. Anecdote of the Duke of Newcastle Blackwood's Magazine. 63 2. The Needle Samuel Woodworth. 67 3. Dawn Edward Everett. 68 4. Description of a Storm Benjamin Disraeli. 70 5. After the Thunderstorm James Thomson. 72 6. House Cleaning Francis Hopkinson. 73 7. Schemes of Life often Illusory Samuel Johnson. 78 8. The Brave Old Oak Henry Fothergill Chorley. 81 9. The Artist Surprised 82 10. Pictures of Memory Alice Cary. 88 11. The Morning Oratorio Wilson Flagg. 90 12. Short Selections in Poetry:

      I. The Cloud John Wilson. 94

       II. My Mind William Byrd. 94

       III. A Good Name William Shakespeare. 95

       V. Sunrise James Thomson. 95

       V. Old Age and Death Edmund Waller. 95

       VI. Milton John Dryden. 96

      13. Death of Little Nell Charles Dickens. 96 14. Vanity of Life Johann Gottfried von Herder. 100 15. A Political Pause Charles James Fox 102 16. My Experience in Elocution John Neal. 104 17. Elegy in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray. 108 18. Tact and Talent 113 19. Speech before the Virginia Convention Patrick Henry. 115 20. The American Flag Joseph Rodman Drake. 119 21. Ironical Eulogy on Debt 121 22. The Three Warnings Hester Lynch Thrale. 124 23. The Memory of Our Fathers Lyman Beecher. 128 24. Short Selections in Prose: I. Dryden and Pope Samuel Johnson. 130 II. Las Casas Dissuading from Battle R.B. Sheridan. 130 III. Action and Repose John Ruskin. 131 IV. Time and Change Sir Humphry Davy. 131 V. The Poet William Ellery Channing. 132 VI. Mountains William Howitt. 132 25. The Jolly Old Pedagogue George Arnold. 133 26. The Teacher and Sick Scholar. Charles Dickens. 135 27. The Snow Shower William Cullen Bryant. 141 28. Character of Napoleon Bonaparte Charles Phillips. 143 29. Napoleon at Rest John Pierpont. 146 30. War Charles Sumner. 148 31. Speech of Walpole in Reproof of Mr. Pitt Sir R. Walpole. 151 32. Pitt's Reply to Sir Robert Walpole William Pitt. 152 33. Character of Mr. Pitt Henry Grattan. 154 34. The Soldier's Rest Sir Walter Scott. 156 35. Henry V. to his Troops William Shakespeare. 158 36. Speech of Paul on Mars' Hill Bible. 160 37. God is Everywhere Joseph Hutton. 161 38. Lafayette and Robert Raikes Thomas S. Grimke'. 163 39. Fall of Cardinal Wolsey William Shakespeare. 167 40. The Philosopher John P. Kennedy. 171 41. Marmion and Douglas Sir Walter Scott. 176 42. The Present Adelaide Anne Procter. 178 43. The Baptism John Wilson. 180 44. Sparrows Adeline D. Train Whitney. 185 45. Observance of the Sabbath Gardiner Spring. 186 46. God's Goodness to Such as Fear Him Bible. 189 47. Character of Columbus Washington Irving. 192 48. "He Giveth His Beloved Sleep." Elizabeth B. Browning. 195 49. Description of a Siege Sir Walter Scott 197 50. Marco Bozzaris Fitz-Greene Halleck. 202 51. Song of the Greek Bard Lord George Gordon Byron. 205 52. North American Indians Charles Sprague. 209 53. Lochiel's Warning Thomas Campbell. 211 54. On Happiness of Temper Oliver Goldsmith. 215 55. The Fortune Teller Henry Mackenzie. 218 56. Renzi's Address to the Romans Mary Russell Mitford. 221 57. The Puritan Fathers of New England F. W. P. Greenwood. 223 58. Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers Felicia Dorothea Hemans. 226 59. Necessity of Education Lyman Beecher. 228 60. Riding on a Snowplow Benjamin Franklin СКАЧАТЬ