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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... fields ; it everywhere meets the habita- tions of men . But in these desert regions , the mind loves to penetrate into an ocean of forests , to wander on the banks of prodigious lakes , to soar above the abysses of cataracts , and , as ...
... fields ; it everywhere meets the habita- tions of men . But in these desert regions , the mind loves to penetrate into an ocean of forests , to wander on the banks of prodigious lakes , to soar above the abysses of cataracts , and , as ...
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... fields of light ; if they aspire , it is , at all events , a glorious daring ; and rather than sink with in- fidelity into the dust , I am content to cheat myself with their vision of eternity . It may , indeed , be nothing but 25 ...
... fields of light ; if they aspire , it is , at all events , a glorious daring ; and rather than sink with in- fidelity into the dust , I am content to cheat myself with their vision of eternity . It may , indeed , be nothing but 25 ...
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... field , the docile animal tribes , the broad , the various , the unexhausted domain of nature , are 15 a mere outward pageant , poorly understood in their char- acter and harmony , and prized only so far as they min- ister to the supply ...
... field , the docile animal tribes , the broad , the various , the unexhausted domain of nature , are 15 a mere outward pageant , poorly understood in their char- acter and harmony , and prized only so far as they min- ister to the supply ...
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... fields , they inclined the mind to recognize blessings to which it is often insensible . There were ministers to the passions , and apostles of learning , sufficient for the exigencies of 50 the times . Such an age could well suffer one ...
... fields , they inclined the mind to recognize blessings to which it is often insensible . There were ministers to the passions , and apostles of learning , sufficient for the exigencies of 50 the times . Such an age could well suffer one ...
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... field's dreadful array , Far , far I had roamed on a desolate track ; " T was autumn and sunshine arose on the way - To the home of my fathers , that welcomed me back . 4. I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft - In life's ...
... field's dreadful array , Far , far I had roamed on a desolate track ; " T was autumn and sunshine arose on the way - To the home of my fathers , that welcomed me back . 4. I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft - In life's ...
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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.