The Fourth Reader; Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed for the Higher Classes in Our Public and Private SchoolsF. Blake, 1856 - 408 páginas |
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... bright idea of the master's mind ; When a new world leaps out at his command , And ready nature waits upon his hand ; When the ripe colors soften and unite , And sweetly melt into just shade and light ; When mellowing years their full ...
... bright idea of the master's mind ; When a new world leaps out at his command , And ready nature waits upon his hand ; When the ripe colors soften and unite , And sweetly melt into just shade and light ; When mellowing years their full ...
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... bright and snowy , but the lower parts of an inky black ness . The rain began to patter down in broad and scattered drops , the wind freshened , and curled up the waves : at length it seemed as QUESTIONS . What are the subjects of the ...
... bright and snowy , but the lower parts of an inky black ness . The rain began to patter down in broad and scattered drops , the wind freshened , and curled up the waves : at length it seemed as QUESTIONS . What are the subjects of the ...
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... bright space doth occupy ; all motion guide ; Unchanged through time's all devastating flight Thou only God ! There is no God beside . Being above all beings ! Mighty One ! .Whom none can comprehend , and none explore , Who fillest ...
... bright space doth occupy ; all motion guide ; Unchanged through time's all devastating flight Thou only God ! There is no God beside . Being above all beings ! Mighty One ! .Whom none can comprehend , and none explore , Who fillest ...
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... bright and the balmy effulgence of morn . See truth , love and mercy , in triumph descending , And nature all glowing in Eden's first bloom ! On the cold cheek of death smiles and roses are blending , And beauty immortal awakes from the ...
... bright and the balmy effulgence of morn . See truth , love and mercy , in triumph descending , And nature all glowing in Eden's first bloom ! On the cold cheek of death smiles and roses are blending , And beauty immortal awakes from the ...
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... bright array ; Speak ! and the starless grave shall shine The portal of eternal day ! 11. Rise , kindling with the orient beam , Let Calvary's hill inspire the theme ! Unfold the garments rolled in blood ! O , touch the soul , touch all ...
... bright array ; Speak ! and the starless grave shall shine The portal of eternal day ! 11. Rise , kindling with the orient beam , Let Calvary's hill inspire the theme ! Unfold the garments rolled in blood ! O , touch the soul , touch all ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Anapestic ancholy ancient arms Aurelian beautiful behold beneath blood bosom brave breathe bright Calais clouds dark dead death deep Demosthenes earth EXAMPLES feel feet fire flowers forest gaze genius glory Goth grave Hafed hand happy heard heart heaven Herculaneum hills honor hour human hundred inflection Julius Cæsar Kilauea king labor lambic land LESSON light living Lochiel look ment mighty mind mountains nation nature never night o'er ocean passed pause Pliny the Younger Pompeii proud province of Spain rising rocks roll Rolla Roman Rome round Rule scene Scotland seemed shine shore silent smile solemn soul sound spirit splendor stalactites star-spangled banner stars storm stream sublime syllables tears tempest temple thee thing thou thousand thunder tion trees Trochee vast verse virtue voice waters waves wild wind wonders wooded crater
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Página 374 - Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Página 373 - Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Página 403 - Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Página 49 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
Página 45 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection...
Página 24 - 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...
Página 45 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty, That they pass by me, as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Página 37 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Página 352 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object, — this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Página 322 - The great trust now descends to new hands. Let us apply ourselves to that which is presented to us, as our appropriate object. We can win no laurels in a war for independence. Earlier and worthier hands have gathered them all. Nor are there places for us by the side of Solon, and Alfred, and other founders of states. Our fathers have filled them.