The First-class Reader: A Selection for Exercises in Reading : from Standard British and American Authors, in Prose and Verse : for the Use of Schools in the United States |
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... behold the sun . ' The sense of sight is , indeed , the highest bodily privilege , the purest physi- cal pleasure , which man has derived from his Creator : to see that wandering fire , after he has finished his journey through the ...
... behold the sun . ' The sense of sight is , indeed , the highest bodily privilege , the purest physi- cal pleasure , which man has derived from his Creator : to see that wandering fire , after he has finished his journey through the ...
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... behold the peasantry in their best finery , with ruddy faces , and modest cheerfulness , thronging tranquilly along the green lanes to church ; but it is still more pleasing to see them in the evenings , gathering about their cottage ...
... behold the peasantry in their best finery , with ruddy faces , and modest cheerfulness , thronging tranquilly along the green lanes to church ; but it is still more pleasing to see them in the evenings , gathering about their cottage ...
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... behold them . With what eagerness do very infants grasp at flowers ! As they become older they would live forever amongst them . They bound about in the flowery meadows like young fawns ; they gather all they come near ; they col- lect ...
... behold them . With what eagerness do very infants grasp at flowers ! As they become older they would live forever amongst them . They bound about in the flowery meadows like young fawns ; they gather all they come near ; they col- lect ...
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... behold the beauty of his handiworks , and rejoices in that tide of glory which he has caused to flow wide through the universe . We know not , either , what spiritual eyes besides may be- hold them ; for pleasant is the belief , that ...
... behold the beauty of his handiworks , and rejoices in that tide of glory which he has caused to flow wide through the universe . We know not , either , what spiritual eyes besides may be- hold them ; for pleasant is the belief , that ...
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... behold how wonderfully the countries , where our faith was nurtured , where our liberties were generated , where our phi- losophy and literature , the fountains of our intellectual grace and beauty , sprang up , were as distinctly ...
... behold how wonderfully the countries , where our faith was nurtured , where our liberties were generated , where our phi- losophy and literature , the fountains of our intellectual grace and beauty , sprang up , were as distinctly ...
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Page 48 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 49 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Page 28 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 223 - I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
Page 40 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Page 97 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm ; So hallowed and so gracious is the time.
Page 156 - Take thy banner! May it wave Proudly o'er the good and brave; When the battle's distant wail Breaks the sabbath of our vale, When the clarion's music thrills To the hearts of these lone hills, When the spear in conflict shakes, And the strong lance shivering breaks. "Take thy banner! and, beneath The battle-cloud's encircling wreath, Guard it!
Page 24 - In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing. It leads a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such a man may be simple and rough, but he cannot be vulgar.
Page 158 - To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination: he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little.
Page 154 - Oh, few and weak their numbers were — A handful of brave men ; But to their God they gave their prayer, And rushed to battle then.