The First-class Reader: A Selection for Exercises in Reading : from Standard British and American Authors, in Prose and Verse : for the Use of Schools in the United StatesRussell, Odiorne, and Metcalf, 1833 - 276 стор. |
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... Death A Voice from the Wine Press To - morrow Time The Storm Twilight To Tranquillity To a Cloud - The Vulture of the Alps - The Arctic Dove The Convict Ship Blackwood's Magazine 170 Bryant 171 · Ibid . 185 Ibid . 187 Longfellow 189 ...
... Death A Voice from the Wine Press To - morrow Time The Storm Twilight To Tranquillity To a Cloud - The Vulture of the Alps - The Arctic Dove The Convict Ship Blackwood's Magazine 170 Bryant 171 · Ibid . 185 Ibid . 187 Longfellow 189 ...
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... death , removed the fear of death itself , and which , from the danger of provoca- tion , made the common people as polite and as guarded in their behavior , as the gentry of other countries . To be modest as well as brave ; to be ...
... death , removed the fear of death itself , and which , from the danger of provoca- tion , made the common people as polite and as guarded in their behavior , as the gentry of other countries . To be modest as well as brave ; to be ...
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... death , rose from the ground , and stood by the side of their grave - stones . Their arms were crossed upon their bosoms - their countenances were deadly pale , and raised to heaven . The looks of the young chil- dren alone were placid ...
... death , rose from the ground , and stood by the side of their grave - stones . Their arms were crossed upon their bosoms - their countenances were deadly pale , and raised to heaven . The looks of the young chil- dren alone were placid ...
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... death . The silence of their still prayer was succeeded by the sounds of labor , and society , and merriment . Sometimes , I could see them meet together with inflamed features and angry words , and sometimes I distinguished the outcry ...
... death . The silence of their still prayer was succeeded by the sounds of labor , and society , and merriment . Sometimes , I could see them meet together with inflamed features and angry words , and sometimes I distinguished the outcry ...
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... playmate's grave The pansy . On the infant's little bed , Wet at its planting with maternal tears , Emblem of early sweetness , early death , Nestled the lowly primrose . Childless dames , And maids 30 FIRST - CLASS READER . Bryant.
... playmate's grave The pansy . On the infant's little bed , Wet at its planting with maternal tears , Emblem of early sweetness , early death , Nestled the lowly primrose . Childless dames , And maids 30 FIRST - CLASS READER . Bryant.
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Сторінка 48 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Сторінка 49 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Сторінка 28 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Сторінка 223 - I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
Сторінка 40 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Сторінка 97 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm ; So hallowed and so gracious is the time.
Сторінка 156 - Take thy banner! May it wave Proudly o'er the good and brave; When the battle's distant wail Breaks the sabbath of our vale, When the clarion's music thrills To the hearts of these lone hills, When the spear in conflict shakes, And the strong lance shivering breaks. "Take thy banner! and, beneath The battle-cloud's encircling wreath, Guard it!
Сторінка 24 - In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing. It leads a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such a man may be simple and rough, but he cannot be vulgar.
Сторінка 158 - To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination: he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little.
Сторінка 154 - Oh, few and weak their numbers were — A handful of brave men ; But to their God they gave their prayer, And rushed to battle then.