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Mcguffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader ECLECTIC EDUCATIONAL SERIES. McGUFFEY’S FIFTH ECLECTIC READER. REVISED EDITION. Copyright, 1879, by VAN ANTWERP, BRAGG & CO. Copyright, 1896, by AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY. Copyright, 1907 and 1920, by H. H. VAIL. M’G. REV 5TH EC. EP 310 In the public domain. Re-typeset as a sample, by BD Tech Concepts LLC. Contents PREFACE............................................................... xi I INTRODUCTION I PRELIMINARY REMARKS ............................................... 3 II ARTICULATION ........................................................ 5 ELEMENTARY SOUNDS. - VOCALS ................................ 5 SUBVOCALS AND ASPIRATES..................................... 6 SUBSTITUTES .............................................. 8 FAULTS TO BE REMEDIED .................................. 8 EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION .............................. 11 III INFLECTIONS .......................................................... 13 RISING INFLECTIONS ............................................. 13 FALLING INFLECTIONS ........................................... 14 STRONG EMPHASIS .............................................. 15 SERIES OF WORDS OR MEMBERS ................................. 16 EXAMPLES OF COMMENCING SERIES ....................... 16 EXAMPLE OF CONCLUDING SERIES ......................... 17 EXAMPLES ....................................................... 17 RISING INFLECTION ........................................ 18 RISING AND FALLING INFLECTIONS ........................ 20 CIRCUMFLEX .................................................... 22 EXAMPLES ................................................. 22 MONOTONE ..................................................... 23 EXAMPLES ................................................. 23 iii iv CONTENTS IV ACCENT ............................................................... 25 V EMPHASIS ............................................................. 27 ABSOLUTE EMPHASIS ............................................ 28 RELATIVE EMPHASIS ............................................. 28 EMPHATIC PHRASE .............................................. 29 EMPHATIC PAUSE ................................................ 29 VI MODULATION ......................................................... 31 PITCH AND COMPASS ............................................ 31 QUANTITY AND QUALITY ........................................ 32 VII POETIC PAUSES ........................................................ 35 EXAMPLES ....................................................... 35 VIII EXERCISES............................................................. 37 DEATH OF FRANKLIN ............................................ 37 BONAPARTE ..................................................... 37 HAMLET ON SEEING THE SKULL OF YORICK ...................... 38 DESCRIPTION OF A BATTLE ...................................... 38 LORD ULLIN’S DAUGHTER ....................................... 39 INDEX OF AUTHORS AND ARTISTS .................................... 41 II SELECTIONS IN PROSE AND POETRY. 1 THE GOOD READER ................................................... 45 2 THE BLUEBELL ........................................................ 49 3 THE GENTLE HAND . Timothy S. Arthur 51 4 THE GRANDFATHER . Charles G. Eastman 55 5 A BOY ON A FARM . Charles Dudley Warner 57 6 THE SINGING LESSON . Jean Ingelow 59 7 DO NOT MEDDLE ...................................................... 61 8 WORK . Eliza Cook 65 9 THE MANIAC .......................................................... 67 10 ROBIN REDBREAST . William Allingham 69 11 THE FISH I DID N’T CATCH . John Greenleaf Whittier 71 12 IT SNOWS . Sarah Josepha Hale 75 CONTENTS v 13 RESPECT FOR THE SABBATH REWARDED .............................. 77 14 THE SANDS O’ DEE. .Charles Kingsley 79 15 SELECT PARAGRAPHS . The Bible 81 16 THE CORN SONG . John Greenleaf Whittier 83 17 THE VENOMOUS WORM . John Russell 87 18 THE FESTAL BOARD ................................................... 89 19 HOW TO TELL BAD NEWS ............................................. 93 20 THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM. .Robert Southey 95 21 “I PITY THEM.” ......................................................... 99 22 AN ELEGY ON MADAM BLAIZE . Oliver Goldsmith 103 23 KING CHARLES II AND WILLIAM PENN . Mason L. Weems 105 24 WHAT I LIVE FOR ...................................................... 109 25 THE RIGHTEOUS NEVER FORSAKEN ................................... 111 26 ABOU BEN ADHEM . James Henry Leigh Hunt 115 27 LUCY FORESTER . John Wilson 117 28 THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 121 29 THE TOWN PUMP . Nathaniel Hawthorne 123 30 GOOD NIGHT . Samuel Griswold Goodrich 129 31 AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL . Louisa May Alcott 131 32 MY MOTHER’S HANDS ................................................. 135 33 THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM . Jane Taylor 137 34 THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS . William Cullen Bryant 141 35 THE THUNDERSTORM. .Washington Irving 145 36 APRIL DAY . Caroline Anne Southey 147 37 THE TEA ROSE ......................................................... 149 38 THE CATARACT OF LODORE. .Robert Southey 153 39 THE BOBOLINK . Washington Irving 157 40 ROBERT OF LINCOLN . William Cullen Bryant 161 41 REBELLION IN MASSACHUSETTS STATE PRISON . J. T. Buckingham 163 42 FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY . Thomas Hood 169 43 THE GENEROUS RUSSIAN PEASANT . Nikolai Karamzin 173 44 FORTY YEARS AGO .................................................... 177 45 CAUDLE’S LECTURE . Douglas Jerrold 181 46 THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 185 vi CONTENTS 47 THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW ................................ London Times 187 48 THE SNOWSTORM . James Thomson 191 49 BEHIND TIME .......................................................... 193 50 THE OLD SAMPLER . Mrs. M. E. Sangster 195 51 THE GOODNESS OF GOD . The Bible 199 52 MY MOTHER ........................................................... 201 53 THE HOUR OF PRAYER . Felicia Dorothea Hemans 203 54 THE WILL ............................................................. 205 55 THE NOSE AND THE EYES . William Cowper 209 56 AN ICEBERG . Louis Legrand Noble 211 57 ABOUT QUAIL . William Post Hawes 213 58 THE BLUE AND THE GRAY . F. M. Finch 217 59 THE MACHINIST’S RETURN . Washington “Capital” 219 60 MAKE WAY FOR LIBERTY . James Montgomery 223 61 THE ENGLISH SKYLARK . Elihu Burritt 227 62 HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE . William Collins 229 63 THE RAINBOW . John Keble 231 64 SUPPOSED SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS . Daniel Webster 233 65 THE RISING. .Thomas Buchanan Read 237 66 CONTROL YOUR TEMPER. John Todd 241 67 WILLIAM TELL . James Sheridan Knowles 245 68 WILLIAM TELL. (Concluded.) . James Sheridan Knowles 257 69 THE CRAZY ENGINEER................................................. 263 70 THE HERITAGE . James Russell Lowell 269 71 NO EXCELLENCE WITHOUT LABOR . William Wirt 273 72 THE OLD HOUSE CLOCK ............................................... 275 73 THE EXAMINATION . Daniel Pierce Thompson 277 74 THE ISLE OF LONG AGO. .Benjamin Franklin Taylor 281 75 THE BOSTON MASSACRE . George Bancroft 283 76 DEATH OF THE BEAUTIFUL . Eliza Lee Fallen 287 77 SNOW FALLING . John James Piatt 289 78 SQUEERS’S METHOD . Charles Dickens 291 79 THE GIFT OF EMPTY HANDS . Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt 297 80 CAPTURING THE WILD HORSE . Washington Irving 299 CONTENTS vii 81 SOWING AND REAPING. .Adelaide Anne Procter 303 82 TAKING COMFORT . John Greenleaf Whittier 305 83 CALLING THE ROLL . Shepherd 309 84 TURTLE SOUP. .Charles Frederick Briggs 311 85 THE BEST KIND OF REVENGE .......................................... 315 86 THE SOLDIER OF THE RHINE. .Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton 317 87 THE WINGED WORSHIPERS . Charles Sprague 321 88 THE PEEVISH WIFE . Maria Edgeworth 323 89 THE RAINY DAY . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 327 90 BREAK, BREAK, BREAK . Alfred Tennyson 329 91 TRANSPORTATION AND PLANTING OF SEEDS . Henry David Thoreau 331 92 SPRING AGAIN . Celia Thaxter 335 93 RELIGION THE ONLY BASIS OF SOCIETY . William Ellery Channing 337 94 ROCK ME TO SLEEP. .Elizabeth Akers Allen 339 95 MAN AND THE INFERIOR ANIMALS . Jane Taylor 341 96 THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT . John Godfrey Saxe 343 97 A HOME SCENE . Donald Grant Mitchell 345 98 THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS . Thomas Moore 349 99 A CHASE IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL . James Fenimore Cooper 351 100 BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE . Charles Wolfe 355 101 LITTLE VICTORIES . Harriet Martineau 357 102 THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE . Sir Henry Wotton 361 103 THE ART OF DISCOURAGEMENT . Arthur Helps 363 104 THE MARINER’S DREAM. .William Dimond 367 105 THE PASSENGER PIGEON . John James Audubon 371 106 THE COUNTRY LIFE . ..
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