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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... passion , but by the wiser few , because they knew that the love of music both heightened the courage , and softened the tempers , of the people . Their vocal music was plaintive , even to 2 * FIRST - CLASS READER . 17.
... passion , but by the wiser few , because they knew that the love of music both heightened the courage , and softened the tempers , of the people . Their vocal music was plaintive , even to 2 * FIRST - CLASS READER . 17.
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... passions are hushed , and their spirits are still - malevolence has lost its power of harming - appetite is sated , ambition lies low , and lust is cold - anger has done raving , all disputes are ended , all revelry is over , the fell ...
... passions are hushed , and their spirits are still - malevolence has lost its power of harming - appetite is sated , ambition lies low , and lust is cold - anger has done raving , all disputes are ended , all revelry is over , the fell ...
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... passions were traced upon their faces , and their forms were no longer clad in the garments of death . The silence ... passion , and the blasphemy of sin . And yet there were a few who would often come to the threshold of their dwellings ...
... passions were traced upon their faces , and their forms were no longer clad in the garments of death . The silence ... passion , and the blasphemy of sin . And yet there were a few who would often come to the threshold of their dwellings ...
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... passions and human anxieties . The mind abandons itself to revery , and is transferred , in the ecstasy of its thoughts , to distant and unexplored regions . It sees nature in the simplicity of her great ele- ments , and it sees the God ...
... passions and human anxieties . The mind abandons itself to revery , and is transferred , in the ecstasy of its thoughts , to distant and unexplored regions . It sees nature in the simplicity of her great ele- ments , and it sees the God ...
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... passions or they will master you . Eat not to dulness ; drink not to elevation . Keep the body perfectly pure , as indicative of the purity of the mind within . Waste nothing : -neither money , nor time , nor talents . Obey promptly ...
... passions or they will master you . Eat not to dulness ; drink not to elevation . Keep the body perfectly pure , as indicative of the purity of the mind within . Waste nothing : -neither money , nor time , nor talents . Obey promptly ...
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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.