The American Manual: Or, New English Reader, Consisting of Exercises in Reading and Speaking, Both in Prose and Poetry; Selected from the Best Writers. To which are Added a Succinct History of the Colonies, from the Discovery of North America to the Close of the War of the Revolution; the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and of the State of New York. For the Use of SchoolsS. H. Henry & Company, 1836 - 295 стор. |
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... remain per- plexed and undetermined in our choice ; we are at the same time pulled to different sides by the various emotions which belong to our nature . On one hand , pleasure allures us to what is agreeable ; on the other , interest ...
... remain per- plexed and undetermined in our choice ; we are at the same time pulled to different sides by the various emotions which belong to our nature . On one hand , pleasure allures us to what is agreeable ; on the other , interest ...
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... remain . 8. But the course of time is so visibly marked , that it is even observed by the passage , and by nations who have raised their minds very little above animal instinct : there are human beings , whose language does not supply ...
... remain . 8. But the course of time is so visibly marked , that it is even observed by the passage , and by nations who have raised their minds very little above animal instinct : there are human beings , whose language does not supply ...
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... remain vaulted , and of fine proportions , but so deeply buried in ruins as to be now subterranean . " 16. A hall of immense size was discovered about the be- f Pon - tif , a high priest . Con ' vent , a religious house , a nun . " E ...
... remain vaulted , and of fine proportions , but so deeply buried in ruins as to be now subterranean . " 16. A hall of immense size was discovered about the be- f Pon - tif , a high priest . Con ' vent , a religious house , a nun . " E ...
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... remain in it , where she lived , solitary and almost helpless . The few wants of nature were chiefly supplied from the scanty pro- ductions of her little garden , which the neighbors would now and then cultivate for her . 21. It was but ...
... remain in it , where she lived , solitary and almost helpless . The few wants of nature were chiefly supplied from the scanty pro- ductions of her little garden , which the neighbors would now and then cultivate for her . 21. It was but ...
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... remain ' behind . A leg cannot be changed into an armi . Among stage- players , our first object is to exercise a new candidate , until we discover where his vein lies . Buc . I am told that you do not invent the plots of your own plays ...
... remain ' behind . A leg cannot be changed into an armi . Among stage- players , our first object is to exercise a new candidate , until we discover where his vein lies . Buc . I am told that you do not invent the plots of your own plays ...
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Сторінка 218 - deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From; these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel, What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. 1. There is
Сторінка 208 - On with the dance ! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet. To chase the glowing hours with flying feet— But, hark!—that heavy sound breaks in once more. As if the clouds its echo would repeat: And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before! Ann ! Arm', it
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Сторінка 233 - 19. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray: Along the cool, sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. '.20. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.
Сторінка 176 - joys of life's unmeasur'd way; Thus from afar, each dim discover'd scene, More pleasing seems than all the past hath been And every form that fancy can repair, From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. Night. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a
Сторінка 208 - opening roar ! 2. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising 3. Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sat Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear; And when they smiled because he deem'd it near, His heart