English Lessons; Kurze Praktishe Anleitung Zum Raschen und Sicheren Erlernen Der Englischen Sprach Fur Den Mundlichen und Schriflichen Frein Gebrauch

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1904 - 229 pages
 

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Page 177 - Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere. Home, home, sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home, there's no place like home! An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain; Oh, give me my lowly thatched cottage again! The birds singing gaily, that came at my call— Give me them— and the peace of mind, dearer than all! Home, home, sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home, there's no place like home!
Page 173 - I breathed a song into the air, I i. fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong. That it can follow the flight of song • Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend, SONNETS.
Page 174 - Not there, not there, my child!" " Is it where the feathery palm-trees rise, And the date grows ripe under sunny skies ?— Or 'midst the green islands of glittering seas, Where fragrant forests perfume the breeze, And strange bright birds, on their starry wings, Bear the rich hues of all glorious things ? " —" Not there, not there, my child!
Page 173 - God save the King! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us ! God save the King! O Lord our God, arise! Scatter his enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks: On Thee our hopes we fix — God save us all!
Page 174 - Not there, not there, my child! "Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy ; Dreams cannot picture a world so fair — Sorrow and death may not enter there : Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom, For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb, — It is there, it is there, my child!
Page 176 - WHEN Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain : ' Rule, Britannia, rule the waves, Britons never will be slaves.
Page 177 - Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame; All their attempts to bend thee down Will but arouse thy generous flame, And work their woe and thy renown. To thee belongs the rural reign; Thy cities shall with commerce shine; All thine shall be the subject main, And every shore it circles thine ! The...
Page 177 - Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke ; As the loud blast that tears the skies, Serves but to root thy native oak. , Rule, Britannia, &c.
Page 176 - And now the cannons roar, Along the affrighted shore, Our Nelson led the way; • His ship the Vict'ry named, Long be that Vict'ry fam'd! For Vict'ry crown'd the day! But dearly was that conquest bought, Too well the gallant hero fought, For England, home, and beauty, He cried as 'midst the fire he ran, 'England expects that every man This day will do his duty.
Page 172 - Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; | For who has sight so keen and strong, ! That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke...

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