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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... thousands of times , the dimensions of the earth which we inhabit ; that the moon itself has the magnitude of a world ; and that even a few of those stars , which appear like so many lucid points to the unassisted eye of the observer ...
... thousands of times , the dimensions of the earth which we inhabit ; that the moon itself has the magnitude of a world ; and that even a few of those stars , which appear like so many lucid points to the unassisted eye of the observer ...
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... thousand giant peaks and ridges of every varied hue , —but all silent as images of eternity ; and cast his gaze over lakes and forests , and smoking towns , and wide lands to the very ocean , in all their gleaming and reposing beauty ...
... thousand giant peaks and ridges of every varied hue , —but all silent as images of eternity ; and cast his gaze over lakes and forests , and smoking towns , and wide lands to the very ocean , in all their gleaming and reposing beauty ...
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... thousand extremities they have saved him . What great hearts have throbbed in their defiles from the days of Leon- idas to those of Andreas Hofer ! What lofty souls , what tender hearts , what poor and persecuted creatures have they ...
... thousand extremities they have saved him . What great hearts have throbbed in their defiles from the days of Leon- idas to those of Andreas Hofer ! What lofty souls , what tender hearts , what poor and persecuted creatures have they ...
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... thousand years ago , are found there now , and show us in face and figure , in language and garb , what their fa- thers were ; show us a fine contrast with the modern tribes dwelling below and around them ; and show us , moreover , how ...
... thousand years ago , are found there now , and show us in face and figure , in language and garb , what their fa- thers were ; show us a fine contrast with the modern tribes dwelling below and around them ; and show us , moreover , how ...
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... thousand leagues afar , thy wave Is rolling on an empire's grave ! Thine arm that shakes me here , Thunders upon the shore Of North , and South , and central sphere , Fuego , Labrador ; From flaming Equinox to frigid Pole , Belting the ...
... thousand leagues afar , thy wave Is rolling on an empire's grave ! Thine arm that shakes me here , Thunders upon the shore Of North , and South , and central sphere , Fuego , Labrador ; From flaming Equinox to frigid Pole , Belting 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.