Selections for Reading and Speaking, for the Higher Classes in Common SchoolsJ.P. Jewett & Company, 1850 - 312 стор. |
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... toilsome lot Taught Scotland's future king . 6. Six times his gossamery thread The wary spider threw ; In vain the filmy line was sped ; For powerless or untrue Each aim appeared , and back ROBERT BRUCE AND THE SPIDER . 57.
... toilsome lot Taught Scotland's future king . 6. Six times his gossamery thread The wary spider threw ; In vain the filmy line was sped ; For powerless or untrue Each aim appeared , and back ROBERT BRUCE AND THE SPIDER . 57.
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... kings and sages Entwined the chaplet round ; Till men of spoil Disdained the toil By which the world was nourished , And blood and pillage were the soil In which their laurels flourished . Now the world her fault repairs , The guilt ...
... kings and sages Entwined the chaplet round ; Till men of spoil Disdained the toil By which the world was nourished , And blood and pillage were the soil In which their laurels flourished . Now the world her fault repairs , The guilt ...
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... Kings of the earth , whose sceptred hand Is clothed with majesty and power- Princes and judges of the land , Before whose presence guilt doth cower- - 10. High - hearted youth , within whose breast Heaves darkly passion's lava - tide ...
... Kings of the earth , whose sceptred hand Is clothed with majesty and power- Princes and judges of the land , Before whose presence guilt doth cower- - 10. High - hearted youth , within whose breast Heaves darkly passion's lava - tide ...
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... kings . The gorgeous palace and the humble cot Owe every atom to me they've got ; And the prince at the banquet , and the hind at his board , Alike must depend on the fare I afford . 3. Man may boast of his creaturely might- His talents ...
... kings . The gorgeous palace and the humble cot Owe every atom to me they've got ; And the prince at the banquet , and the hind at his board , Alike must depend on the fare I afford . 3. Man may boast of his creaturely might- His talents ...
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... King James . 5. No bearer of burdens like Caliban , No runner of errands like Ariel , He comes in the shape of a fat old man , Without rap of knuckle or pull of bell : And whence he comes , or whither he goes , I know as I do of the ...
... King James . 5. No bearer of burdens like Caliban , No runner of errands like Ariel , He comes in the shape of a fat old man , Without rap of knuckle or pull of bell : And whence he comes , or whither he goes , I know as I do of the ...
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Сторінка 65 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Сторінка 311 - Sir, before God^ I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it ; and I leave off, as I begun, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment ; Independence, now ; and INDEPENDENCE FOREVER.
Сторінка 305 - ... against your Protestant brethren; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war! — hell-hounds, I say, of savage war.
Сторінка 123 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!
Сторінка 117 - twas a famous victory! "My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by; They burnt his dwelling to the ground, And he was forced to fly ; So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head.
Сторінка 118 - And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win." " But what good came of it at last ?" Quoth little Peterkin. " Why, that I cannot tell," said he,
Сторінка 117 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won ; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun : But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. 'Great praise the Duke of Marlbro* won And our good Prince Eugene;' 'Why 'twas a very wicked thing !' Said little Wilhelmine; 'Nay . . nay . . my little girl,' quoth he, 'It was a famous victory.
Сторінка 187 - Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave.
Сторінка 309 - If we postpone independence, do we mean to carry on, or give up, the war ? Do we mean to submit to the measures of parliament — Boston port-bill and all ? Do we mean to submit, and consent that we ourselves shall be ground to powder, and our country and its rights trodden down in the dust ? I know we do not mean to submit. We never shall submit.
Сторінка 305 - We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty ? Are we disposed to be of the number of those.