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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... side of a mountain there flowed forth a little rivulet . Its voice was scarcely heard amid the rustling of the leaves and grass around , and its shallow and narrow stream might be overlooked by the traveller . This brook , although so ...
... side of a mountain there flowed forth a little rivulet . Its voice was scarcely heard amid the rustling of the leaves and grass around , and its shallow and narrow stream might be overlooked by the traveller . This brook , although so ...
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... side ; it stood away from all these things , as it ought , and was placed on a spot of gently rising ground , a short dis- tance from the main road , at the end of a green lane ; and so near to a grove of oaks and walnuts , that one of ...
... side ; it stood away from all these things , as it ought , and was placed on a spot of gently rising ground , a short dis- tance from the main road , at the end of a green lane ; and so near to a grove of oaks and walnuts , that one of ...
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... 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 and unconscious - but over the features of all ...
... 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 and unconscious - but over the features of all ...
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... side a beautiful and majestic form , taller and brighter than the sons of men , and it thus addressed me- " Mortal ! thou hast now seen the frailty of thy race , and learned that thy thoughts were vain . Even if men should be wakened ...
... side a beautiful and majestic form , taller and brighter than the sons of men , and it thus addressed me- " Mortal ! thou hast now seen the frailty of thy race , and learned that thy thoughts were vain . Even if men should be wakened ...
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... were born to blush in her shining hair . She is leaving the home of her childhood's mirth , She hath bid farewell to her father's hearth , Her place is now by another's side- Bring flowers for 3 * FIRST - CLASS READER . 29.
... were born to blush in her shining hair . She is leaving the home of her childhood's mirth , She hath bid farewell to her father's hearth , Her place is now by another's side- Bring flowers for 3 * FIRST - CLASS READER . 29.
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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.