McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader. William Holmes McGuffey

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664096913

Table of Contents

       SELECTIONS IN PROSE AND POETRY.

       INTRODUCTION.

       SUBVOCALS AND ASPIRATES.

       SUBSTITUTES.

       FAULTS TO BE REMEDIED.

       SERIES OF WORDS OR MEMBERS.

       RISING AND FALLING INFLECTIONS.

       CIRCUMFLEX.

       MONOTONE.

       IV. ACCENT.

       V. EMPHASIS.

       ABSOLUTE EMPHASIS.

       RELATIVE EMPHASIS.

       EMPHATIC PHRASE.

       VI. MODULATION.

       QUANTITY AND QUALITY.

       VII. POETIC PAUSES.

       EXERCISES.

       III. HAMLET ON SEEING THE SKULL OF YORICK.

       IV. DESCRIPTION OF A BATTLE.

       V. LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER.

       ALPHABETICAL LIST OF AUTHORS.

       1. THE GOOD READER.

       II. THE BLUEBELL.

       III. THE GENTLE HAND.

       IV. THE GRANDFATHER.

       V. A BOY ON A FARM.

       VI. THE SINGING LESSON.

       VII. DO NOT MEDDLE.

       VIII. WORK.

       IX. THE MANIAC.

       X. ROBIN REDBREAST.

       XI. THE FISH I DID N'T CATCH.

       XII. IT SNOWS.

       XIII. RESPECT FOR THE SABBATH REWARDED.

       XIV. THE SANDS O' DEE.

       XV. SELECT PARAGRAPHS.

       XVI. THE CORN SONG.

       XVII. THE VENOMOUS WORM.

       XVIII. THE FESTAL BOARD.

       XIX. HOW TO TELL BAD NEWS.

       XX. THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM.

       XXI. "I PITY THEM."

       XXII. AN ELEGY ON MADAM BLAIZE.

       XXIV. WHAT I LIVE FOR.

       XXV. THE RIGHTEOUS NEVER FORSAKEN.

       XXVI. ABOU BEN ADHEM.

       XXVII. LUCY FORESTER.

       XXVIII. THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS.

       XXIX. THE TOWN PUMP.

       XXX. GOOD NIGHT.

       XXXI. AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL.

       XXXII. MY MOTHER'S HANDS.

       XXXIII. THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM.