Class Book of Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Selections from the Best English and American Authors : Designed as Exercises in Passing : for the Use of Common Schools and AcademiesRobert S. Davis, 1850 - 120 sidor |
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... spread a deeper sad- ness over the hour of gloom ; yet who would exchange it even for the song of pleasure , or the burst of revelry ? No , there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song . 10 There is a recollection of the dead to ...
... spread a deeper sad- ness over the hour of gloom ; yet who would exchange it even for the song of pleasure , or the burst of revelry ? No , there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song . 10 There is a recollection of the dead to ...
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... spread ; by ignorance , they are closed and palsied , and the physical passions are left to gain the ascendency . Knowledge opens all the senses to the wonders of crea- tion ; ignorance seals them up , and leaves the animal propensities ...
... spread ; by ignorance , they are closed and palsied , and the physical passions are left to gain the ascendency . Knowledge opens all the senses to the wonders of crea- tion ; ignorance seals them up , and leaves the animal propensities ...
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... spread out this 25 sentiment or description , and to deck it round and round with glittering ornaments , than the mind begins to fall from its elevation ; the transport is over ; the beautiful may remain , but the sublime is gone ...
... spread out this 25 sentiment or description , and to deck it round and round with glittering ornaments , than the mind begins to fall from its elevation ; the transport is over ; the beautiful may remain , but the sublime is gone ...
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... spreading roots on which they depend , are present along with them , and share , in their places , the equal care of their Creator . 65 EXERCISE XIV . Purpose of the Monument on Bunker Hill 32 PROSE SELECTIONS . Reflections at Midnight.
... spreading roots on which they depend , are present along with them , and share , in their places , the equal care of their Creator . 65 EXERCISE XIV . Purpose of the Monument on Bunker Hill 32 PROSE SELECTIONS . Reflections at Midnight.
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... spread over the earth , and which history charges herself with making known to all future times . We know that no inscription on entablatures less broad than the earth itself , can carry information of the events we 10 commemorate where ...
... spread over the earth , and which history charges herself with making known to all future times . We know that no inscription on entablatures less broad than the earth itself , can carry information of the events we 10 commemorate where ...
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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 Selection from the Best ... Truman Rickard Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1863 |
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absolute substance Amalek amid amidst angels ascend awful beauty behold bliss bosom breast breath bright calm clouds crystal water darkness days of disaster deep delight desert distant divine dread dreams dust dwells earth eternal fairy bowers fall fire flowers fools and heroes gentle glorious glory grave green grove happy hast hath heart hearts that hate heaven hills holy hope human immortal light living look Lord Invades loveliness mind morning mountains nature Nature's Nebaioth never night Number o'er passions pleasure Pleiad praise profound darkness repose rise round rural king Sabbath sad cypress scene shade silent sleep smile soft solitude song sorrow soul sound spirit stars stream sublime sweet tender thee things thou art thought thousand throne thunder tion toil torrents tread trembling vale voice wake wild wind wing wintry showers wisdom wonder woods youth
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Sida 92 - Cameron's gathering" rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Sida 22 - 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 92 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed. The mustering squadron, and the clattering car. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Sida 91 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
Sida 115 - 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 91 - Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear. And when they smiled because he deemed it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretched his father on a bloody bier, And roused the vengeance blood alone could quell: He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell.
Sida 115 - 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 22 - ... 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 116 - 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 48 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.