Class Book of Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Selections from the Best English and American Authors : Designed as Exercises in Parsing : for the Use of Common Schools and Academies |
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... clouds must part from the bent bow and the strained arm . It would be delightful to live in perfect trust , to doubt no one , and to believe all . Providence never intended that any state here should be either completely happy or ...
... clouds must part from the bent bow and the strained arm . It would be delightful to live in perfect trust , to doubt no one , and to believe all . Providence never intended that any state here should be either completely happy or ...
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... clouds , and laughest at the storm . But to Ossian thou lookest in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more , whether thy yellow hair flow on the eastern clouds , or thou trem lest at the gates of the west . But thou art , perhaps , like ...
... clouds , and laughest at the storm . But to Ossian thou lookest in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more , whether thy yellow hair flow on the eastern clouds , or thou trem lest at the gates of the west . But thou art , perhaps , like ...
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... clouds , the day vanished from before him , and a sudden 60 tempest gathered round his head . He was now roused by his danger to a quick and painful remembrance of his folly ; he now saw how happiness is lost when ease is consulted ; he ...
... clouds , the day vanished from before him , and a sudden 60 tempest gathered round his head . He was now roused by his danger to a quick and painful remembrance of his folly ; he now saw how happiness is lost when ease is consulted ; he ...
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... clouds , which resembled the summits of lofty , snow - covered mountains . These clouds , folding or ex- panding their veils , rolled themselves out into transpa- rent zones of white satin , dispersed into light flakes of 15 foam , or ...
... clouds , which resembled the summits of lofty , snow - covered mountains . These clouds , folding or ex- panding their veils , rolled themselves out into transpa- rent zones of white satin , dispersed into light flakes of 15 foam , or ...
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... cloud even over the bright hour of gayety , or spread a deeper sad- ness over the hour of gloom ; yet who would exchange it even for the song of pleasure , or the burst of revelry ? No , there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song ...
... cloud even over the bright hour of gayety , or spread a deeper sad- ness over the hour of gloom ; yet who would exchange it even for the song of pleasure , or the burst of revelry ? No , there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song ...
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Page 116 - 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...
Page 139 - 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.
Page 139 - 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...
Page 47 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 46 - ... 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.
Page 140 - 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.
Page 117 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms - the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Page 46 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 33 - The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Page 140 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.