Class Book of Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Selection from the Best English and American Authors, Designed as Exercises in Parsing, for the Use of Common Schools and Academies, by Truman Rickard and Hiram OrcuttR.S. Davis & Company, 1863 - 139 sidor |
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... Scene in an American Forest ... CHATEAUBRIAND . 39 3. Sorrow for the Dead .. 4. The Bible 5. The Religious Faith of the Red Man 6. The Sabbath Bell in the Country . • • 7. Studies ....... 8. Influence of Human Knowledge .. 9. Sublimity ...
... Scene in an American Forest ... CHATEAUBRIAND . 39 3. Sorrow for the Dead .. 4. The Bible 5. The Religious Faith of the Red Man 6. The Sabbath Bell in the Country . • • 7. Studies ....... 8. Influence of Human Knowledge .. 9. Sublimity ...
Sida 39
... Scene in an American Forest . — CHATEAUBRIAND I had wandered one evening in a vast forest , at some distance from the cataract of Niagara I soon beheld the day gradually extinguished around me , and en- joyed , in all its solitude , the ...
... Scene in an American Forest . — CHATEAUBRIAND I had wandered one evening in a vast forest , at some distance from the cataract of Niagara I soon beheld the day gradually extinguished around me , and en- joyed , in all its solitude , the ...
Sida 40
... the astonishing sublimity of this scene , human language is inadequate to exqress ; nor can the most delightful nights in Europe afford any idea of them . In vain imagination seeks to extend itself 40 PROSE SELECTIONS .
... the astonishing sublimity of this scene , human language is inadequate to exqress ; nor can the most delightful nights in Europe afford any idea of them . In vain imagination seeks to extend itself 40 PROSE SELECTIONS .
Sida 42
... scene . -the bed of death , with all its stifled griefs , its noiseless attendance , its mute , watch- ful assiduities - the last testimonies of expiring love- the feeble , fluttering , thrilling , —oh ! how thrilling ! pres- sure of ...
... scene . -the bed of death , with all its stifled griefs , its noiseless attendance , its mute , watch- ful assiduities - the last testimonies of expiring love- the feeble , fluttering , thrilling , —oh ! how thrilling ! pres- sure of ...
Sida 48
... scene to the man whose mind is stored with knowledge ! For him the mystery is unfolded , the veil lifted up , as 20 one after another he turns the leaves of the great volume of creation , which is filled in every page with the char ...
... scene to the man whose mind is stored with knowledge ! For him the mystery is unfolded , the veil lifted up , as 20 one after another he turns the leaves of the great volume of creation , which is filled in every page with the char ...
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Class Book of Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Selections from the Best ... Truman Rickard,Hiram Orcutt Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1865 |
Class Book of Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Selections from the Best ... Truman Rickard,Hiram Orcutt Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1878 |
Class Book of Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Selections from the Best ... Truman Rickard,Hiram Orcutt Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1850 |
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Sida 47 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Sida 46 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Sida 139 - Yet a few days and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Sida 140 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Sida 139 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house...
Sida 46 - ... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Sida 140 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Sida 117 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms - the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Sida 139 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Sida 141 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged...