The Green Valley School: A Pedagogical Story

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North-Western School Supply Company, 1907 - 186 sidor
 

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Sida 117 - Nay, do not think I flatter ; For what advancement may I hope from thee That no revenue hast but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Sida 96 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Sida 117 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Sida 40 - He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips are o'er. To see him die, across the waste His son and heir doth ride post-haste, But he'll be dead before.
Sida 123 - Low is my porch, as is my fate, Both void of state...
Sida 113 - But you may read it, I stop short. BOOK II.— SATIRE VI. THE FIRST PART IMITATED IN THE YEAR 1714,BY DR. SWIFT, THE LATTER PART ADDED AFTERWARDS. I'VE often wish'd that I had clear For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.
Sida 22 - Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Sida 51 - Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
Sida 119 - Nor dare she trust a larger lay, But rather loosens from the lip Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.
Sida 51 - Catch, then, oh ! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies ; Life's a short summer — man a flower : He dies — alas ! how soon he dies...

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