The Moral and Intellectual School Book: Containing Instructions for Reading and Speaking, Lessons on Religion, Morality, Science, and Philosophy, Rhetoric and Oratory : with Copious Extracts from the Modern Poets, and Remarks on Their Genius and Writings |
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... stands , Reposing her soft wings , Raising her aspect unto lands That speak of sweeter things ; Soils social , where solicitude , Sweet tenderness , and song , Turns the heart's sighs , in solitude , From sorrow and sad wrong ; And ...
... stands , Reposing her soft wings , Raising her aspect unto lands That speak of sweeter things ; Soils social , where solicitude , Sweet tenderness , and song , Turns the heart's sighs , in solitude , From sorrow and sad wrong ; And ...
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... stands the good reader ; but there must ever be a vast difference between them ; and the reader must always be inferior to the speaker . The one gives us the language of his own mind and heart , fresh and pure , which forms itself into ...
... stands the good reader ; but there must ever be a vast difference between them ; and the reader must always be inferior to the speaker . The one gives us the language of his own mind and heart , fresh and pure , which forms itself into ...
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... stand it ; and , having understood it , that they should read it precisely as they would speak . What we read or speak unfelt , is like a painting without light or shade , in which symmetry of parts and good colouring occur ; but which ...
... stand it ; and , having understood it , that they should read it precisely as they would speak . What we read or speak unfelt , is like a painting without light or shade , in which symmetry of parts and good colouring occur ; but which ...
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... stand related to one another simply as Christians . Again , Christianity taken in its most extensive sense , is a complete code of moral and religious instruction ; and leaves nothing to be learnt or taught that is essential to man's ...
... stand related to one another simply as Christians . Again , Christianity taken in its most extensive sense , is a complete code of moral and religious instruction ; and leaves nothing to be learnt or taught that is essential to man's ...
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... standing . And only in proportion as this agreement exists towards perfection can the poet , painter , or sculp- tor become great . Now the mind having the essence of truth within itself , seizes these agreements and be- comes impressed ...
... standing . And only in proportion as this agreement exists towards perfection can the poet , painter , or sculp- tor become great . Now the mind having the essence of truth within itself , seizes these agreements and be- comes impressed ...
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Page 319 - Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot : O Christ ! That ever this should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
Page 265 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear,— both what they half create, And what perceive; well pleased to recognize In nature and the language of the sense, The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.
Page 260 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? What ignorance of pain? With thy clear keen joyance Languor cannot be: Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee: Thou lovest - but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.
Page 192 - Ay, more. Fret till your proud heart break ; Go show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Page 188 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; •> I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; \ So let it be with Caesar.
Page 296 - And often when I go to plough The ploughshare turns them out. For many thousand men/ said he, 'Were slain in that great victory.' 'Now tell us what 'twas all about...
Page 257 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 185 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 270 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward...
Page 189 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.