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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... stream with tears . First examination on the foregoing extract . 6 What is the title of the piece ? Who is the author ? What sacred writer does he quote ? What is the quotation ? What is the highest bodily privilege ? ' What is meant by ...
... stream with tears . First examination on the foregoing extract . 6 What is the title of the piece ? Who is the author ? What sacred writer does he quote ? What is the quotation ? What is the highest bodily privilege ? ' What is meant by ...
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... stream might be overlooked by the traveller . This brook , although so small , was inspired with a proud spirit and mur- mured against the decree of Providence , which had cast its lot so lowly . ' I wish I were a cloud , to roll all ...
... stream might be overlooked by the traveller . This brook , although so small , was inspired with a proud spirit and mur- mured against the decree of Providence , which had cast its lot so lowly . ' I wish I were a cloud , to roll all ...
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... stream began to assume the importance of a river , and boats were launched on it and rolled on in a meandering course through a teeming country , freshening whatever it touched , and giving the whole scene a new character and beauty ...
... stream began to assume the importance of a river , and boats were launched on it and rolled on in a meandering course through a teeming country , freshening whatever it touched , and giving the whole scene a new character and beauty ...
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... stream - a fragrance could not exhale from the humble violet , nor a daisy unfold its crimson tints to the morning , but it has been noticed by these impassioned and delicate observers , and wrought up into some beautiful mo- rality ...
... stream - a fragrance could not exhale from the humble violet , nor a daisy unfold its crimson tints to the morning , but it has been noticed by these impassioned and delicate observers , and wrought up into some beautiful mo- rality ...
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... streams , and the glowing sky , And the bright world shut from his languid eye ; They will bear him a thought of the sunny hours , And a dream of his youth - bring him flowers , wild flowers ! Bring flowers , fresh flowers , for the ...
... streams , and the glowing sky , And the bright world shut from his languid eye ; They will bear him a thought of the sunny hours , And a dream of his youth - bring him flowers , wild flowers ! Bring flowers , fresh flowers , for the ...
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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.