The First-class Reader: A Selection for Exercises in Reading : from Standard British and American Authors, in Prose and Verse : for the Use of Schools in the United States |
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... less . To select such matter , as is , in all respects , proper to compose a Reading Manual for Youth , will be acknowledged a task of much importance and no little delicacy . Purity of sen- timent , blended with that which may inform ...
... less . To select such matter , as is , in all respects , proper to compose a Reading Manual for Youth , will be acknowledged a task of much importance and no little delicacy . Purity of sen- timent , blended with that which may inform ...
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... less humility ; but a convulsive shudder- ing was on the frames of all , and on their faces that same shadow of unutterable meaning . While they stood thus , I perceived that their bloodless lips began to move , and 36 22 FIRST - CLASS ...
... less humility ; but a convulsive shudder- ing was on the frames of all , and on their faces that same shadow of unutterable meaning . While they stood thus , I perceived that their bloodless lips began to move , and 36 22 FIRST - CLASS ...
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... less in mag- nitude as it recedes from the eye . The lofty vessel as it retires from the coast , shrinks into littleness , and at last ap- pears in the form of a small speck on the verge of the hori- The eagle with his expanded wings ...
... less in mag- nitude as it recedes from the eye . The lofty vessel as it retires from the coast , shrinks into littleness , and at last ap- pears in the form of a small speck on the verge of the hori- The eagle with his expanded wings ...
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... less and wretched , with two sisters to maintain , without money , without friends , without a profession , and without sight . Under such an accumulation of griefs , most minds would have sunk , but with him it was otherwise . At all ...
... less and wretched , with two sisters to maintain , without money , without friends , without a profession , and without sight . Under such an accumulation of griefs , most minds would have sunk , but with him it was otherwise . At all ...
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... less pa- tient , he is , like the other , cruel in battle and implacable towards his armed foe ; but more tractable after the combat , and more sociable after peace . Insurrections for overthrowing the sovereign or his min- isters , for ...
... less pa- tient , he is , like the other , cruel in battle and implacable towards his armed foe ; but more tractable after the combat , and more sociable after peace . Insurrections for overthrowing the sovereign or his min- isters , for ...
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Page 48 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 49 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Page 28 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 223 - I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
Page 40 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Page 97 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm ; So hallowed and so gracious is the time.
Page 156 - Take thy banner! May it wave Proudly o'er the good and brave; When the battle's distant wail Breaks the sabbath of our vale, When the clarion's music thrills To the hearts of these lone hills, When the spear in conflict shakes, And the strong lance shivering breaks. "Take thy banner! and, beneath The battle-cloud's encircling wreath, Guard it!
Page 24 - In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing. It leads a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such a man may be simple and rough, but he cannot be vulgar.
Page 158 - To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination: he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little.
Page 154 - Oh, few and weak their numbers were — A handful of brave men ; But to their God they gave their prayer, And rushed to battle then.