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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... Spring Instability of Earthly Things Advice to the Young Immortality the Reward of Virtue - Chalmers 249 Gillies 250 Galt 257 Buckminster 258 Silliman 260 Anon . 266 Alison 268 Hervey 269 Channing 273 Lindsay 274 Bring Flowers The ...
... Spring Instability of Earthly Things Advice to the Young Immortality the Reward of Virtue - Chalmers 249 Gillies 250 Galt 257 Buckminster 258 Silliman 260 Anon . 266 Alison 268 Hervey 269 Channing 273 Lindsay 274 Bring Flowers The ...
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... spring and beginning of summer , when they put the plough into the little land they had capable of receiving it , sowed their grain , and laid in their provision of turf for the winter's fuel ; the other , just before winter , when they ...
... spring and beginning of summer , when they put the plough into the little land they had capable of receiving it , sowed their grain , and laid in their provision of turf for the winter's fuel ; the other , just before winter , when they ...
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... spring pass by us . buds before they be withered . ' ' Let us fill ourselves , ' says Solo- and ointments ; and let no flower of Let us crown ourselves with rose- But amongst that solemn and poetical people , they were commonly regarded ...
... spring pass by us . buds before they be withered . ' ' Let us fill ourselves , ' says Solo- and ointments ; and let no flower of Let us crown ourselves with rose- But amongst that solemn and poetical people , they were commonly regarded ...
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... spring forth . ' In our confined notions , we are often led to wonder why Full many a flower is born to blush unseen , And waste its sweetness on the desert air ; why beauty , and flowers , and fruit , should be scattered so exuberantly ...
... spring forth . ' In our confined notions , we are often led to wonder why Full many a flower is born to blush unseen , And waste its sweetness on the desert air ; why beauty , and flowers , and fruit , should be scattered so exuberantly ...
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... spring up in our hearts . She cherishes and expands the earliest germs of our intellects . She breathes over us her deepest devotions . She lifts our little hands , and teaches our little tongues to lisp in prayer . She watch- es over ...
... spring up in our hearts . She cherishes and expands the earliest germs of our intellects . She breathes over us her deepest devotions . She lifts our little hands , and teaches our little tongues to lisp in prayer . She watch- es over ...
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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.