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 Seiten |
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... mighty tracts , and we may see them naked and colorless , after the flush of vegetation has disappeared . In the pro- gress of years , or of centuries , we may trace the hand of cultivation spreading a new aspect over some portion of a ...
... mighty tracts , and we may see them naked and colorless , after the flush of vegetation has disappeared . In the pro- gress of years , or of centuries , we may trace the hand of cultivation spreading a new aspect over some portion of a ...
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... mighty nations ! Thanks to God for mountains ! Their colossal firmness seems almost to break the current of time itself ; the Geolo- gist in them searches for traces of the earlier world , and it is there too that man , resisting the ...
... mighty nations ! Thanks to God for mountains ! Their colossal firmness seems almost to break the current of time itself ; the Geolo- gist in them searches for traces of the earlier world , and it is there too that man , resisting the ...
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... mighty waters lends an interest unknown to an inland landscape . The loneliness too of the sea - shore is much cheered by the constant changes arising from the ebb and flow of the tide , and the undulations of the water's surface ...
... mighty waters lends an interest unknown to an inland landscape . The loneliness too of the sea - shore is much cheered by the constant changes arising from the ebb and flow of the tide , and the undulations of the water's surface ...
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... mighty deep , Piercing the drowsy night , Thou scarest the gentle sleep , Whose pinions will not light Where thou intrudest busy thought , With depths dark as thy secrets fraught . Thy mystic sounds I hear , Peal of unwonted things ; Of ...
... mighty deep , Piercing the drowsy night , Thou scarest the gentle sleep , Whose pinions will not light Where thou intrudest busy thought , With depths dark as thy secrets fraught . Thy mystic sounds I hear , Peal of unwonted things ; Of ...
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... and free , Till God command thee give thine own , And all is dumb save thee ; And haply when the sun is blood , Unchanged shall be thy mighty flood . LESSON XVI . Salmon River . - BRAINARD . ' 42 FIRST - CLASS READER .
... and free , Till God command thee give thine own , And all is dumb save thee ; And haply when the sun is blood , Unchanged shall be thy mighty flood . LESSON XVI . Salmon River . - BRAINARD . ' 42 FIRST - CLASS READER .
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Acbar Alhambra Amphibia Anawon animals appeared Babylon beautiful behold beneath birds Boabdil bosom brave breast breath breeze bright brother brow called canoes cataract clouds dark dead death deep deer fly delight earth eternal father feeling feet flowers Flustras Forever charming Fred gaze give glorious glory golden morning break grave Greece green guerite hand happy hath heard heart heaven Herculaneum Hernando de Talavera holy honor hope hour human inaccessible pinnacles land LESSON light lives lofty look Lord mastiff mighty mind Morisco morning mother mountains mysterious nature never night o'er object ocean passed passions peace Persian pleasure river rock round scene seemed shore Sicily silent solemn soul sound spirit stood sublime sweet tears thee thing thou thought thousand toil trees truth virtue voice Wampanoags waters waves wild wind wonderful
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Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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!
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.