The National Fourth Reader; Containing a Simple, Comprehensive, and Practical Treatise on Elocution, Numerous and Classified Exercises in Reading and Declamation, Copious Notes, and a Complete Supplementary Index (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 18. Thu strif seseth, pes appr6cheth, and fliu gfid man rejaiseth. 19. Thu shrSd shroz bad him sa fliat fliu vil viksnz yuzd shrugz, and sharp shril shreks. 20. Shorli, flio wonded, fliu pr6dent rekrot wud not et fliat krod frot. 21. Stern, rugged nrs! flii rijid lor -vifli pashSns men! 5 yer she bor. 22. Amidst flii mists and k61dst fr6sts, wifli barest rists And stoutest hosts, he thrusts hSz fists agenst fliu posts, and stil insists he sez fliu gosts. 23. A starm arizeth 6n flifl se. A model vessel iz struggling amidst fliu wdr ov elements, kwivering and shivering, shringking and battling llk a thingking being. Thu mersi- les, Faking wherlwindz, lik fritful fendz, houl and mon, and send sharp, shril shreks thro fliu kreking kardaj, snapping fliu shets and masts. Thu sterdi saMrz stand to fliar tasks, and weflier fliu severest starm 6v f3iu sezn. 24. Chast-id, cherisht Ches! Thu charmz ov flii chekerd chamberz chan me chanjlesli. Far flie andr fliu chaplets ov chanles chMti and fliu chalis ov childlik cherfulnes. Chanj kan not chanj flie: from childhud to fliu charnel-hous, fr6m our fSrst childish chrpingz to thu chllz ov fliu chSrch-yandrd, andrt our cher!, chanjles.cheftines. II. SYLLABICATION. DEFINITIONS. A SYLLABLE is a word, or part of a word, uttered by ./ a single impulse of the voice. 2. A Monosyllable is a word of one syllable; as, home. 3. A Dissyllable is a word of two syllables; as, home-less. 4. A Trisyllable is a word of three syllables; as, con- fine-ment. 5. A Polysyllable is a word of four or more syllables; as, in-no-cen-cy, un-in-tel-li-gi-bil-i-ty. 6. The Ultimate is the last syllable of a word; as ful, in peace-ful. 1. The Penult, or penultimate, is the last syllable but one of a word; as mdk, in peace-n;a...