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 páginas |
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... breast , and twined within 25 the cords of life itself ! Surely , no language can fully portray the enormity of their guilt , or express the depth of their degradation , if they do thus crush this instinct of nature , and obliterate ...
... breast , and twined within 25 the cords of life itself ! Surely , no language can fully portray the enormity of their guilt , or express the depth of their degradation , if they do thus crush this instinct of nature , and obliterate ...
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... breast the ripples break , As down he bears before the gale . 2. On thy fair bosom , waveless stream ! The dipping paddle echoes far , And flashes in the moonlight gleam , And bright reflects the polar star . 3. The waves along thy ...
... breast the ripples break , As down he bears before the gale . 2. On thy fair bosom , waveless stream ! The dipping paddle echoes far , And flashes in the moonlight gleam , And bright reflects the polar star . 3. The waves along thy ...
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... breast : In this enlivened and gladsome hour The spirit may burn with a brighter power ; But dearer the calm and quiet day , When the heaven - sick soul is stealing away . 40 45 EXERCISE IV . From " The Discourse of the Wanderer 38 ...
... breast : In this enlivened and gladsome hour The spirit may burn with a brighter power ; But dearer the calm and quiet day , When the heaven - sick soul is stealing away . 40 45 EXERCISE IV . From " The Discourse of the Wanderer 38 ...
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... breast The curtain of repose , Stretch the tired limbs , and lay the head Upon our own delightful bed ! 2. Night is the time for dreams ; The gay romance of life , When truth that is and truth that seems , Blend in fantastic strife ; Ah ...
... breast The curtain of repose , Stretch the tired limbs , and lay the head Upon our own delightful bed ! 2. Night is the time for dreams ; The gay romance of life , When truth that is and truth that seems , Blend in fantastic strife ; Ah ...
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... breast , That did rejoice beneath the stern oppression ; I thought I saw its lurid gloom o'erspreading The starless waning night . But yet it comes not , The broad and sultry thunder - cloud , wherein The God of Israel evermore ...
... breast , That did rejoice beneath the stern oppression ; I thought I saw its lurid gloom o'erspreading The starless waning night . But yet it comes not , The broad and sultry thunder - cloud , wherein The God of Israel evermore ...
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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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Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.