Relfe brothers' model reading-books, in prose and verse, ed., with notes and intr. by R.F. Charles, Volume 5Richard Fletcher Charles 1882 |
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... father Alexis and the patriarch Nicon had turned their thoughts southward and westward . But , taken as a whole , it was , with many noble elements , a wild Oriental people , ruled by a court wrapped round and round in Oriental ...
... father Alexis and the patriarch Nicon had turned their thoughts southward and westward . But , taken as a whole , it was , with many noble elements , a wild Oriental people , ruled by a court wrapped round and round in Oriental ...
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... father , and that his mother died for grief of her son's ill - fame , certainly calumniate3 him . And there are others who relate , on the contrary , that to deter him from public business , and to let him see how the people treat their ...
... father , and that his mother died for grief of her son's ill - fame , certainly calumniate3 him . And there are others who relate , on the contrary , that to deter him from public business , and to let him see how the people treat their ...
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... Father ! Give us food , of we must perish ' ! Give me food for Minnehaha , For my dying Minnehaha ! " • Through the far - resounding forest , Through the forest vast and vacant , Rang that cry of desolation , ' But there came no other ...
... Father ! Give us food , of we must perish ' ! Give me food for Minnehaha , For my dying Minnehaha ! " • Through the far - resounding forest , Through the forest vast and vacant , Rang that cry of desolation , ' But there came no other ...
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... father Standing lonely at his doorway , Beckoning to me from his wigwam , In the land of the Dacotahs ! " " No , my child ! " said old Nokomis , " Tis the smoke that waves and beckons ! " " Ah ! she said , " the eyes of Pauguk Glare ...
... father Standing lonely at his doorway , Beckoning to me from his wigwam , In the land of the Dacotahs ! " " No , my child ! " said old Nokomis , " Tis the smoke that waves and beckons ! " " Ah ! she said , " the eyes of Pauguk Glare ...
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... father did not laugh , and thinking to draw him into the conversation . " Papa , were these the kind of locusts eaten by John the Baptist when in the desert ? His food , the Bible says , was ' locusts and wild honey . " " I believe ...
... father did not laugh , and thinking to draw him into the conversation . " Papa , were these the kind of locusts eaten by John the Baptist when in the desert ? His food , the Bible says , was ' locusts and wild honey . " " I believe ...
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Page 98 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 43 - A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Page 293 - Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 306 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it...
Page 166 - I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist : A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain...
Page 292 - Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 112 - I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it.
Page 141 - I thought of this, and I was glad, For thought of them had made me mad; But I was curious to ascend To my barr'd windows, and to bend Once more, upon the mountains high, The quiet of a loving eye.
Page 159 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Page 119 - But mine the sorrow, mine the fault, And well my life shall pay ; I'll seek the solitude he sought, And stretch me where he lay. " And there forlorn, despairing, hid, I'll lay me down and die ; 'Tvvas so for me that Edwin did, And so for him will I.