The Illustrated London Reading BookPrinted and published at the office of The Illustrated London News, 1851 - English language - 264 pages |
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Page 19
... passes of the Alps , between Switzerland and Savoy . In these regions the traveller is often overtaken by the most severe weather , even after days of cloudless beauty , when the glaciers glitter in the sunshine , and the pink flowers ...
... passes of the Alps , between Switzerland and Savoy . In these regions the traveller is often overtaken by the most severe weather , even after days of cloudless beauty , when the glaciers glitter in the sunshine , and the pink flowers ...
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... pass of St. Bernard , have seen this dog , and have heard , around the blazing fire of the monks , the story of his extraordinary career . He perished about the year 1816 , in an attempt to convey a poor traveller to his anxious family ...
... pass of St. Bernard , have seen this dog , and have heard , around the blazing fire of the monks , the story of his extraordinary career . He perished about the year 1816 , in an attempt to convey a poor traveller to his anxious family ...
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... passes in a state of tranquil slumber . During the night , its season of activity , it wanders forth in search of food , which consists of water - melons , gourds , young shoots of brushwood , & c .; but , like the hog , it is not very ...
... passes in a state of tranquil slumber . During the night , its season of activity , it wanders forth in search of food , which consists of water - melons , gourds , young shoots of brushwood , & c .; but , like the hog , it is not very ...
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... pass'd the pale green olives by , Nor won the chesnut flowers his eye ; But when to that sole Palm he came , Then shot a rapture through his frame . To him , to him its rustling spoke ; The silence of his soul it broke . It whisper'd of ...
... pass'd the pale green olives by , Nor won the chesnut flowers his eye ; But when to that sole Palm he came , Then shot a rapture through his frame . To him , to him its rustling spoke ; The silence of his soul it broke . It whisper'd of ...
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... pass you by Unwarn'd of that sweet oracle divine . And though too oft its low , celestial sound By the harsh notes of work - day care is drown'd , And the loud steps of vain , unlist'ning haste , Yet the great lesson hath no tone of ...
... pass you by Unwarn'd of that sweet oracle divine . And though too oft its low , celestial sound By the harsh notes of work - day care is drown'd , And the loud steps of vain , unlist'ning haste , Yet the great lesson hath no tone of ...
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Page 145 - Now strike the golden lyre again : A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
Page 205 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 186 - ... 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 186 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Page 190 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Page 172 - By the festal cities' blaze, Whilst the wine-cup shines in light ; And yet amidst that joy and uproar Let us think of them that sleep, Full many a fathom deep, By thy wild and stormy steep, Elsinore...
Page 109 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet ; Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
Page 228 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I, observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That. I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Page 186 - 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. Some books also may be read by deputy...
Page 203 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...