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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... delight to think of the people of mountainous regions ; we please our imaginations with their picturesque and quiet abodes ; with their peaceful secluded lives , striking and un- varying costumes , and primitive manners . We ...
... delight to think of the people of mountainous regions ; we please our imaginations with their picturesque and quiet abodes ; with their peaceful secluded lives , striking and un- varying costumes , and primitive manners . We ...
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... delight . It is in a moral climate as serene and cloudless , that the destined inhabitant of a still nobler world moves on , in that glorious track , which has heaven before , and virtue and tranquillity behind ; and in which it is ...
... delight . It is in a moral climate as serene and cloudless , that the destined inhabitant of a still nobler world moves on , in that glorious track , which has heaven before , and virtue and tranquillity behind ; and in which it is ...
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... delight . A few years ago , I stood upon Table Rock , and placed my cane in the descending flood of Niagara . Its tremen- dous roar almost entirely precluded conversation with the friend at my side ; while its whirlwind of mist and foam ...
... delight . A few years ago , I stood upon Table Rock , and placed my cane in the descending flood of Niagara . Its tremen- dous roar almost entirely precluded conversation with the friend at my side ; while its whirlwind of mist and foam ...
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... delight , and we revel in the luxury of mere sensa- tion . But in the depth of winter , when Nature lies despoiled of every charm , and wrapped in her shroud of sheeted snow , we turn for our gratifications to moral sources . The ...
... delight , and we revel in the luxury of mere sensa- tion . But in the depth of winter , when Nature lies despoiled of every charm , and wrapped in her shroud of sheeted snow , we turn for our gratifications to moral sources . The ...
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... delight , and connecting them with the sacred and joyous occasion , have almost fancied them into another celestial choir , an- nouncing peace and good - will to mankind . How delightfully the imagination , when wrought upon by these ...
... delight , and connecting them with the sacred and joyous occasion , have almost fancied them into another celestial choir , an- nouncing peace and good - will to mankind . How delightfully the imagination , when wrought upon by these ...
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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.