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... eyes and nim- ble fingers watch him , for some advantage of his good nature , negligence , ignorance , or generosity , actuated by as noble a motive as the vulture which approaches a carcass . Alexander the Great , than whom few men ...
... eyes and nim- ble fingers watch him , for some advantage of his good nature , negligence , ignorance , or generosity , actuated by as noble a motive as the vulture which approaches a carcass . Alexander the Great , than whom few men ...
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... eye of noon , To sport their season , and be seen no more . The rest are sober dreamers , grave and wise And pregnant with discoveries new and rare . LESSON FOURTEENTH . The First Lesson of Cyrus . It is reported of Cyrus , when young ...
... eye of noon , To sport their season , and be seen no more . The rest are sober dreamers , grave and wise And pregnant with discoveries new and rare . LESSON FOURTEENTH . The First Lesson of Cyrus . It is reported of Cyrus , when young ...
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... eye of envy on the possessions of the man who had preserved his life , was now so abandoned to all sense of gratitude , as to request that the king would bestow upon him the house and lands , where he had been so tenderly and kindly ...
... eye of envy on the possessions of the man who had preserved his life , was now so abandoned to all sense of gratitude , as to request that the king would bestow upon him the house and lands , where he had been so tenderly and kindly ...
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... LESSON NINETEENTH . Beauty and Virtue . Where does beauty chiefly lie , In the heart , or in the eye ? Which doth yield us greatest pleasure Outward charms or inward treasure ? Which with firmest links 35 32 JUVENILE COMPANION .
... LESSON NINETEENTH . Beauty and Virtue . Where does beauty chiefly lie , In the heart , or in the eye ? Which doth yield us greatest pleasure Outward charms or inward treasure ? Which with firmest links 35 32 JUVENILE COMPANION .
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... eyes and admiration of every body . The young conqueror started from his seat with confusion and surprise , and seemed to be robbed of that presence of mind and self possession , so necessary in a general , and for which Scipio was very ...
... eyes and admiration of every body . The young conqueror started from his seat with confusion and surprise , and seemed to be robbed of that presence of mind and self possession , so necessary in a general , and for which Scipio was very ...
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Page 98 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, : Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round...
Page 126 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, — For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, — And thou must die.
Page 55 - They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell ; Earthly these passions of the Earth, They perish where they have their birth ; But Love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth...
Page 40 - Happy the man*, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Page 70 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! How passing wonder He who made him such, Who centred in our make such strange extremes! From different natures marvellously mixed, Connection exquisite of distant worlds! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity!
Page 32 - Content I live, this is my stay; I seek no more than may suffice ; I press to bear no haughty sway; Look, what I lack my mind supplies. Lo, thus I triumph like a king, Content with that my mind doth bring.
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Page 32 - Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store: They poor, I rich; they beg, I give; They lack, I leave; they pine, I live.
Page 118 - The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. The birds around me hopped and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure : — But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there.
Page 99 - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...