The American Manual, Or, New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in Reading and Speaking, Both in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers : to which are Added, a Succinct History of the Colonies, from the Discovery of North America to the Close of the War of the Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and of the State of New York : for the Use of Schools |
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Page 164
... o'er many a wave beat shore ; Woman's the slender graceful vine , Whose curling tendrils round it twine , And deck its rough bark sweetly o'er . Joy and Sorrow . In the dreams of delight which with ardor we seek , Oft the phantom of ...
... o'er many a wave beat shore ; Woman's the slender graceful vine , Whose curling tendrils round it twine , And deck its rough bark sweetly o'er . Joy and Sorrow . In the dreams of delight which with ardor we seek , Oft the phantom of ...
Page 165
... o'er a slumo'ring world . Silence , how dead ! and darkness , how profound ' Nor eye nor list'ning ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps . ' Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still , and nature made a pause An awful pause ...
... o'er a slumo'ring world . Silence , how dead ! and darkness , how profound ' Nor eye nor list'ning ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps . ' Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still , and nature made a pause An awful pause ...
Page 167
... o'er him . Music . Deep as the murmurs of the falling floods ; Sweet as the warbles of the vocal woods : The list'ning passions hear , and sink and rise , As the rich harmony or swells or dies ! The pulse of avarice forgets to move ; A ...
... o'er him . Music . Deep as the murmurs of the falling floods ; Sweet as the warbles of the vocal woods : The list'ning passions hear , and sink and rise , As the rich harmony or swells or dies ! The pulse of avarice forgets to move ; A ...
Page 168
... o'er the south , hangs at his utmost noon , And , ineffectual , strikes the gelid cliff : His azure gloss the mountain still maintains , Nor feels the feeble touch . Perhaps the vale Relents a while to the reflected ray ; Or from the ...
... o'er the south , hangs at his utmost noon , And , ineffectual , strikes the gelid cliff : His azure gloss the mountain still maintains , Nor feels the feeble touch . Perhaps the vale Relents a while to the reflected ray ; Or from the ...
Page 169
... o'er the heads Of the coy quiristers that lodge within , Are prodigal of harmony . The thrush And woodlark , o'er the kind contending throng Superior heard , run through the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening Philomela deigns To ...
... o'er the heads Of the coy quiristers that lodge within , Are prodigal of harmony . The thrush And woodlark , o'er the kind contending throng Superior heard , run through the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening Philomela deigns To ...
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Page 202 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 269 - To establish post offices and post roads; To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries...
Page 207 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Page 109 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Page 109 - We have petitioned ; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been slighted ; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.
Page 223 - Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery all he had, a tear, He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Page 109 - If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it. sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope...
Page 108 - I ask, gentlemen — sir — what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission ? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it ? Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
Page 221 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre...
Page 108 - Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.