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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... bosom , replied , ' Thou art in error , brook . Puny and insignificant thou mayst be ; useless thou art not , for I owe half of my beauty , perhaps my life , to thy refreshing waters . The plants ad- jacent to thee are greener and ...
... bosom , replied , ' Thou art in error , brook . Puny and insignificant thou mayst be ; useless thou art not , for I owe half of my beauty , perhaps my life , to thy refreshing waters . The plants ad- jacent to thee are greener and ...
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... bosoms the high point of honor without its follies . In countries where the surface is rugged , and the climate uncertain , there is little room for the use of the plough ; and where no coal is to be found , and few provisions can be ...
... bosoms the high point of honor without its follies . In countries where the surface is rugged , and the climate uncertain , there is little room for the use of the plough ; and where no coal is to be found , and few provisions can be ...
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... bosoms - their countenances were deadly pale , and raised to heaven . The looks of the young chil- dren alone were placid and unconscious - but over the features of all the rest a shadow of unutterable meaning passed and repassed , as ...
... bosoms - their countenances were deadly pale , and raised to heaven . The looks of the young chil- dren alone were placid and unconscious - but over the features of all the rest a shadow of unutterable meaning passed and repassed , as ...
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... bosom of her , who is ever ready and waiting to share in his adversity or his prosperity . And if there be a tribunal , where the sins and the follies of a froward child may hope for par- don and forgiveness , this side heaven , that ...
... bosom of her , who is ever ready and waiting to share in his adversity or his prosperity . And if there be a tribunal , where the sins and the follies of a froward child may hope for par- don and forgiveness , this side heaven , that ...
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... bosom of their enchanted regions . How the mind is filled with their vast solitude ! how the inward eye is fixed on their silent , their sublime , their ever- lasting peaks ! How our heart bounds to the music of their solitary cries ...
... bosom of their enchanted regions . How the mind is filled with their vast solitude ! how the inward eye is fixed on their silent , their sublime , their ever- lasting peaks ! How our heart bounds to the music of their solitary cries ...
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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.