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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... passed over it like shadows over the landscape , the children of the Celt and the Goth , who fled to the moun- tains a thousand years ago , are found there now , and show us in face and figure , in language and garb , what their fa ...
... passed over it like shadows over the landscape , the children of the Celt and the Goth , who fled to the moun- tains a thousand years ago , are found there now , and show us in face and figure , in language and garb , what their fa ...
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... passing on . To - morrow I shall be a breathless thing- Yet he will still be here ; and the same hours Will laugh as gaily on the busy world , As though I were alive to welcome them . LESSON XX . The Blind Teacher . - GRIFFIN . THE life ...
... passing on . To - morrow I shall be a breathless thing- Yet he will still be here ; and the same hours Will laugh as gaily on the busy world , As though I were alive to welcome them . LESSON XX . The Blind Teacher . - GRIFFIN . THE life ...
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... passing dream . Lord of the boundless realm of air ! In thy imperial name , The hearts of the bold and ardent dare , The dangerous path of fame . Beneath the shade of thy golden wings , The Roman legions bore , From the river of Egypt's ...
... passing dream . Lord of the boundless realm of air ! In thy imperial name , The hearts of the bold and ardent dare , The dangerous path of fame . Beneath the shade of thy golden wings , The Roman legions bore , From the river of Egypt's ...
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... passed their lives within half a dozen miles , and have never been to survey these monuments of a war between rivers and mountains , which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre . LESSON XXXII . The Emigrant's Abode in Ohio ...
... passed their lives within half a dozen miles , and have never been to survey these monuments of a war between rivers and mountains , which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre . LESSON XXXII . The Emigrant's Abode in Ohio ...
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... passing as the sun's rays declined , from a brilliant white through purple and pink , and ending in the gentle light , which the snow gives after the sun has set , afforded an ex- hibition in optics upon a scale of grandeur , which no ...
... passing as the sun's rays declined , from a brilliant white through purple and pink , and ending in the gentle light , which the snow gives after the sun has set , afforded an ex- hibition in optics upon a scale of grandeur , which no ...
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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.