Murby's Excelsior readers, ed. by F. YoungFrancis Young (F.R.G.S.) 1870 |
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... heart is astonished at the raining of it . " Homer , the venerable sire of bards , has described a shower of snow and its extensive effects , in a noble strain of poetry : - " In winter's bleak , uncomfortable reign , A snowy inundation ...
... heart is astonished at the raining of it . " Homer , the venerable sire of bards , has described a shower of snow and its extensive effects , in a noble strain of poetry : - " In winter's bleak , uncomfortable reign , A snowy inundation ...
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... heart for a nobler part , On a larger and later field ; And subtler foes he will learn to oppose , With a skill that will not yield . He who can wrestle with friend , Will learn to struggle with foe ; Will cheerily lend his strength to ...
... heart for a nobler part , On a larger and later field ; And subtler foes he will learn to oppose , With a skill that will not yield . He who can wrestle with friend , Will learn to struggle with foe ; Will cheerily lend his strength to ...
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... heart's the same ; For often , dame , his talk's of you , and always to one tune : But there , his ship is nearly home , and he'll be with you 66 soon . 99 O is he really coming home , and shall I really see My boy again , my own boy ...
... heart's the same ; For often , dame , his talk's of you , and always to one tune : But there , his ship is nearly home , and he'll be with you 66 soon . 99 O is he really coming home , and shall I really see My boy again , my own boy ...
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... heart , they kept sending me about so long , that they would not let me be born in any parish at all ; but at last , however , they fixed me . I had some disposition to be a scholar , and was resolved , at least , to know my letters ...
... heart , they kept sending me about so long , that they would not let me be born in any parish at all ; but at last , however , they fixed me . I had some disposition to be a scholar , and was resolved , at least , to know my letters ...
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... hearts to tremble . " I lived in the early ages , and conversed with insects of larger growth , of stronger constitutions , and I may say of greater wisdom than any of the present generation . I con- jure you to give credit to my last ...
... hearts to tremble . " I lived in the early ages , and conversed with insects of larger growth , of stronger constitutions , and I may say of greater wisdom than any of the present generation . I con- jure you to give credit to my last ...
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Сторінка 37 - So we were left galloping, Joris and I, Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky; The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh, 'Neath our feet broke the brittle, bright stubble like chaff; Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And "Gallop," gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight!
Сторінка 36 - Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.
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Сторінка 97 - Aonian maids, Delight no more — O thou my voice inspire Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire ! Rapt into future times, the Bard begun : A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son...
Сторінка 37 - 4. At Aerschot up leaped of a sudden the sun, And against him the cattle stood black every one, To stare through the mist at us galloping past ; And I saw my stout galloper, Roland, at last, With resolute shoulders, each butting away The haze, as some bluff river headland its spray : 5.
Сторінка 37 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track ; And one eye's black intelligence, — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance ! And the thick heavy spume-flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned ; and cried Joris, " Stay spur ! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her, We'll remember at Aix...
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Сторінка 227 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground I Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now.