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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Sida 48
... wonder ; arguments of Providence ; food for medi- 25 tation ; themes of praise . One noble science sends him to the barren hills , and teaches him to survey their broken precipices . Where ignorance beholds nothing but a rough inorganic ...
... wonder ; arguments of Providence ; food for medi- 25 tation ; themes of praise . One noble science sends him to the barren hills , and teaches him to survey their broken precipices . Where ignorance beholds nothing but a rough inorganic ...
Sida 53
... wonder and awe , by the grandeur and terror of his name , by displays of power which would 15 rivet on him every eye , and make him the theme of every tongue . Power was his supreme object , but a power which should be gazed at as well ...
... wonder and awe , by the grandeur and terror of his name , by displays of power which would 15 rivet on him every eye , and make him the theme of every tongue . Power was his supreme object , but a power which should be gazed at as well ...
Sida 88
... wonder speak his silent soul With gratitude o'ertlowing , and with praise . Now Industry is up : the village pours Her useful sons abroad to various toil ; The laborer here with every instrument Of future plenty armed ; and there the ...
... wonder speak his silent soul With gratitude o'ertlowing , and with praise . Now Industry is up : the village pours Her useful sons abroad to various toil ; The laborer here with every instrument Of future plenty armed ; and there the ...
Sida 118
... wonder He who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes , From different natures marvellously mixed , Connection exquisite of distant worlds ! Distinguished link in being's endless chain ! Midway from nothing to the ...
... wonder He who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes , From different natures marvellously mixed , Connection exquisite of distant worlds ! Distinguished link in being's endless chain ! Midway from nothing to the ...
Sida 129
... wonder as I gaze . That stream of light , Undimmed , unquenched , — just as I see it now , Has issued from those dazzling points , through years That go back far into eternity . Exhaustless flood ! for ever spent , renewed For ever ...
... wonder as I gaze . That stream of light , Undimmed , unquenched , — just as I see it now , Has issued from those dazzling points , through years That go back far into eternity . Exhaustless flood ! for ever spent , renewed For ever ...
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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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adjective of quality adverb Attica beauty behold bliss breath bright clouds common noun compound conjunction containing the grammatical containing the simple contemn copula cottage dark declarative deep definite article delightful denotes dependent clause direct object distinct earth eternal EXERCISE exponent exponential adjunct expressing the relation fall finite verb flowers gentle glory grammatical subject grave happy heart heaven hills human imperfect tense indicative mood infinite intellective interrogative light living logical and grammatical logical predicate logical subject masculine gender mighty mind modified word morning mountains nature neuter gender night nude adjunct o'er Obidah offices and relations Participle past plural number positive sentence Poss preposition pronoun repose rest river RULE simple grammatical predicate singular number song soul sound spirit stars sublime subordinate clause substantive sweet Syntax thee things third person thou art thought throne transitive verb virtue voice waves winds
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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...