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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... seen some meeting houses stand , in the most frequented part of the village , blockaded by wagons and horses , with a court - house before it , an engine - house behind it , a store - house under it , and a tavern on each side ; it ...
... seen some meeting houses stand , in the most frequented part of the village , blockaded by wagons and horses , with a court - house before it , an engine - house behind it , a store - house under it , and a tavern on each side ; it ...
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... seen before - but other passions were traced upon their faces , and their forms were no longer clad in the garments of death . The silence of their still prayer was succeeded by the sounds of labor , and society , and merriment ...
... seen before - but other passions were traced upon their faces , and their forms were no longer clad in the garments of death . The silence of their still prayer was succeeded by the sounds of labor , and society , and merriment ...
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... seen instead , where the coarse grass , between , Shoots up its dull green spikes , and in the wind Hisses , and the neglected bramble nigh , Offers its berries to the schoolboy's hand , In vain - they grow too near the dead . Nature ...
... seen instead , where the coarse grass , between , Shoots up its dull green spikes , and in the wind Hisses , and the neglected bramble nigh , Offers its berries to the schoolboy's hand , In vain - they grow too near the dead . Nature ...
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... seen a daughter , herself , perhaps , timid and helpless , watching the decline of an aged parent , and holding out with heroic fortitude to anticipate his wishes , to administer to his wants , and to sustain his tottering steps to the ...
... seen a daughter , herself , perhaps , timid and helpless , watching the decline of an aged parent , and holding out with heroic fortitude to anticipate his wishes , to administer to his wants , and to sustain his tottering steps to the ...
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... seen like a dark spot up- on the vault of heaven . The same is true of all magnitude . The heavenly bodies appear small to the eye of an inhabi- tant of this earth , only from the immensity of their distance . When we talk of hundreds ...
... seen like a dark spot up- on the vault of heaven . The same is true of all magnitude . The heavenly bodies appear small to the eye of an inhabi- tant of this earth , only from the immensity of their distance . When we talk of hundreds ...
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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.