McGuffey's Newly Revised Fourth Reader: The Eclectic Fourth Reader, Containing Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry, from the Best American and English Writers, with Copious Rules for Reading, and Directions for Avoiding Common Errors |
Common terms and phrases
a-we Abishai Absalom Ahimaaz beautiful birds blessed boat bosom breath called cataract cesura character child children of men circumflex commenced consonants dark dear death deep Demosthenes Dryden ducats earth Eclectic emphasis emphatic ERRORS eternity examples EXERCISES Explain the inflections eyes falling inflection father fault fear feel give hand happy hast hath head heard heart heaven hour inflections marked Joab kind king LESSON light live look Lord Lord Byron mercy mind mother nature never o'er paragraph Parse passed pause Pharisees poetry poor praise pronounced pupil QUESTIONS QUESTIONS.-1 reader rising inflection Rule Rule II scene seen sentence shalt ship Shylock sight Socrates soul sound SPELL AND DEFINE SPELL AND DEFINE.-1 spirit stanza sweet syllable Tell thee thing thou thought thousand tion tone unto voice vowels waves wind wonderful words young