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... snow , and the skinny old pony started on a full trot . As we passed , some one gave the old jilt of a horse a good crack , which made him run faster than ever he GRADUAL READER . 27 Duties to Superiors in Age, Knowledge, or Goodness,
... snow , and the skinny old pony started on a full trot . As we passed , some one gave the old jilt of a horse a good crack , which made him run faster than ever he GRADUAL READER . 27 Duties to Superiors in Age, Knowledge, or Goodness,
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... snow and ice upon the top of his wagon . 12. " In his trepidation he dropped his reins , and as his aged and feeble hands were quite benumbed with cold , he could not gather them up , and his horse began to run away . In the midst of ...
... snow and ice upon the top of his wagon . 12. " In his trepidation he dropped his reins , and as his aged and feeble hands were quite benumbed with cold , he could not gather them up , and his horse began to run away . In the midst of ...
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... snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow ; not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence ; not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends , but whence the bosom may partake ...
... snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow ; not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence ; not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends , but whence the bosom may partake ...
Page 54
... snow ; We will stand by each other , however it blow . Oppression and sickness , and sorrow and pain , Shall be to our true love , as links to the chain . The with eye Beauty may stain a celestial blue- - the cheek With carmine of the ...
... snow ; We will stand by each other , however it blow . Oppression and sickness , and sorrow and pain , Shall be to our true love , as links to the chain . The with eye Beauty may stain a celestial blue- - the cheek With carmine of the ...
Page 79
... warm on an early spring day , And melted the snow from a hillock away ; A small blue flower felt the genial glow , And ventured up from the sod below She looked around her , but far and near Was GRADUAL READER . 79 The First Spring Flower,
... warm on an early spring day , And melted the snow from a hillock away ; A small blue flower felt the genial glow , And ventured up from the sod below She looked around her , but far and near Was GRADUAL READER . 79 The First Spring Flower,
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Page 156 - Toilsome and indigent) she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew, And in that charter reads, with sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure in the skies.
Page 164 - 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 230 - I cry aloud to all and sundry in my plainest accents and at the very tiptop of my voice. Here it is, gentlemen ! Here is the good liquor...
Page 234 - The husband and wife, drinking deep of peaceful joy — a calm bliss of temperate affections shall pass hand in hand through life and lie down not reluctantly at its protracted close. To them the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams, nor the future an eternity of such moments as follow the delirium of the drunkard. Their dead faces shall express what their spirits were and are to be by a lingering smile of memory and hope.
Page 71 - ... it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Page 198 - The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread.
Page 229 - town treasurer" is rightfully mine, as guardian of the best treasure that the town has. The overseers of the poor ought to make me their chairman, since I provide bountifully for the pauper, without expense to him that pays taxes.
Page 33 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 72 - It is pleasant to be virtuous and good ; because that is to excel many others : it is pleasant to grow better; because that is to excel ourselves: it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order, within the bounds of reason and religion ; because this is empire : nay, it is pleasant even to mortify and subdue our lusts , because that is victory.
Page 31 - E'en on the edge that wrought her death Dying she breathes her sweetest breath, As if to token, in her fall, Peace to her foes, and love to all.