The Fourth Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed for the Higher Classes in Our Public and Private SchoolsSanborn & Carter, 1847 - 408 Seiten |
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... seen him dropped at once , Our morning's envy , and our evening's sigh ! 5. Death loves a shining mark , a signal blow ; A blow , which , while it executes , alarms ; And startles thousands with a single fall . As when some stately ...
... seen him dropped at once , Our morning's envy , and our evening's sigh ! 5. Death loves a shining mark , a signal blow ; A blow , which , while it executes , alarms ; And startles thousands with a single fall . As when some stately ...
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... seen and heard ; the blind see , the lame walk , the lepers are cleansed , the deaf hear , the dead are raised , to the poor the gospel is preached . - Charity suffereth long , and is kind ; charity ènvieth not ; charity vaùnteth not ...
... seen and heard ; the blind see , the lame walk , the lepers are cleansed , the deaf hear , the dead are raised , to the poor the gospel is preached . - Charity suffereth long , and is kind ; charity ènvieth not ; charity vaùnteth not ...
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... seen the insects sporting in the sunshine , and dart- ing along the streàms ; their wings glittered with gold and purple ; their bodies shone like the green èmerald ; they were more numerous than I could count ; their motions were quick ...
... seen the insects sporting in the sunshine , and dart- ing along the streàms ; their wings glittered with gold and purple ; their bodies shone like the green èmerald ; they were more numerous than I could count ; their motions were quick ...
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... seen dressing their white plumage in the mirror of its wave . To add to the ani- mation of the scene , a sweet tinkling of musical instruments came , at intervals , on the breeze , from boats at a distance , employed thus early in ...
... seen dressing their white plumage in the mirror of its wave . To add to the ani- mation of the scene , a sweet tinkling of musical instruments came , at intervals , on the breeze , from boats at a distance , employed thus early in ...
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... seen that it requires great skill to manage the voice in such a manner , as to represent accurately the characters speaking . RULE . Consider the condition , the feelings , and the temperament of the characters to be represented , and ...
... seen that it requires great skill to manage the voice in such a manner , as to represent accurately the characters speaking . RULE . Consider the condition , the feelings , and the temperament of the characters to be represented , and ...
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Seite 373 - Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Seite 45 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Seite 401 - I ask gentlemen, sir, What means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
Seite 48 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me of half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies; and what's his reason .' I am a jew : Hath not a jew eyes...
Seite 373 - 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. 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...
Seite 374 - 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 there reign alone.
Seite 385 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand, undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Seite 373 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, - the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods - rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Seite 385 - And let us reflect, that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world ; during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking, through blood and slaughter, his long-lost liberty...
Seite 74 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd...