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 Seiten |
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... green path began to decline from its first tendency , and to wind among hills and thickets , cooled with fountains , and murmuring with water - falls . 35 Here Obidah paused for a time , and began to consider whether it were longer safe ...
... green path began to decline from its first tendency , and to wind among hills and thickets , cooled with fountains , and murmuring with water - falls . 35 Here Obidah paused for a time , and began to consider whether it were longer safe ...
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... green fields , they inclined the mind to recognize blessings to which it is often insensible . There were ministers to the passions , and apostles of learning , sufficient for the exigencies of 50 the times . Such an age could well ...
... green fields , they inclined the mind to recognize blessings to which it is often insensible . There were ministers to the passions , and apostles of learning , sufficient for the exigencies of 50 the times . Such an age could well ...
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... green earth with flowers , Linking our hearts to nature ! By the love Of their wild blossoms , our young footsteps first Into her deep recesses are beguiled – Her minster cells - dark glen and forest bower : Where , thrilling with its ...
... green earth with flowers , Linking our hearts to nature ! By the love Of their wild blossoms , our young footsteps first Into her deep recesses are beguiled – Her minster cells - dark glen and forest bower : Where , thrilling with its ...
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... green ? When ' neath its modest veil the arbutus blows , And the blue violet bursts its mossy screen ? When the wild rose , that asks no florist's care , Unfoldeth its rich leaves , have ye not seen Him there ? 2. Have ye not seen Him ...
... green ? When ' neath its modest veil the arbutus blows , And the blue violet bursts its mossy screen ? When the wild rose , that asks no florist's care , Unfoldeth its rich leaves , have ye not seen Him there ? 2. Have ye not seen Him ...
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... green and fragrant leaves . Here , though his sufferings through the glen were known , We chose to watch his dying bed alone , 5 10 Eve , Seth , and I. In vain he sighed for rest , 15 And oft his meek complainings , thus expressed ...
... green and fragrant leaves . Here , though his sufferings through the glen were known , We chose to watch his dying bed alone , 5 10 Eve , Seth , and I. In vain he sighed for rest , 15 And oft his meek complainings , thus expressed ...
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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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Seite 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!
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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!
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.