Town's Fourth Reader: Containing a Selection of Lessons, Exclusively from American Authors ...Derby, 1845 - 288 pages |
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... whole territory was an unproductive waste . Throughout its wide extent the arts had not erected a monument . Its only inhabitants were a few scattered tribes of feeble barbarians , desti- tute of commerce and of political connection ...
... whole territory was an unproductive waste . Throughout its wide extent the arts had not erected a monument . Its only inhabitants were a few scattered tribes of feeble barbarians , desti- tute of commerce and of political connection ...
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... whole coast of the Atlantic , while the westernmost states of Europe are rejoicing in its beams . Here , it would seem , the sun's course was finished . The law which has hitherto visibly governed his career , must be reversed ; the ...
... whole coast of the Atlantic , while the westernmost states of Europe are rejoicing in its beams . Here , it would seem , the sun's course was finished . The law which has hitherto visibly governed his career , must be reversed ; the ...
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... whole civilized world . It was a vast , but a hollow shell ; outwardly imposing , but in- wardly rotten to the core , and with the first stroke of the sword of Alaric , it crumbled into dust . The Goth was but the embodiment of the doom ...
... whole civilized world . It was a vast , but a hollow shell ; outwardly imposing , but in- wardly rotten to the core , and with the first stroke of the sword of Alaric , it crumbled into dust . The Goth was but the embodiment of the doom ...
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... whole range of time , in the wide variety of human affairs , there has been no era so felicitous for his exist- ence as that in which he was born and lived ; at no other point , could equal virtue have met with equal success - no other ...
... whole range of time , in the wide variety of human affairs , there has been no era so felicitous for his exist- ence as that in which he was born and lived ; at no other point , could equal virtue have met with equal success - no other ...
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... whole of one ; but the other is elegant , as well as great . LESSON XV . UNWRITTEN MUSIC . THERE is unwritten music . The world is full of it . I hear it every hour that I wake , and my waking sense is surpassed sometimes by my sleeping ...
... whole of one ; but the other is elegant , as well as great . LESSON XV . UNWRITTEN MUSIC . THERE is unwritten music . The world is full of it . I hear it every hour that I wake , and my waking sense is surpassed sometimes by my sleeping ...
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Page 213 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 215 - Shall one by one be gathered to thy side By those who in their turn shall follow them.
Page 16 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! Let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Page 241 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry, for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the house. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received?
Page 15 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these...
Page 235 - He thinks the whole world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes, and almost hears its workings in the very silence of his thoughts. It has become his master. It betrays his discretion, it breaks down his courage, it conquers his prudence. When suspicions from without begin to embarrass him, and the net of circumstance to entangle him, the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth.
Page 228 - True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it; but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way ; but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, .and in the occasion.
Page 250 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence, — a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task ; which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union, and the patronage of heaven.
Page 215 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 48 - English scenery is the moral feeling that seems to pervade it. It is associated in the mind with ideas of order, of quiet, of sober well-established principles, of hoary usage and reverend custom.