The Home and Country Readers: Book One-, Volum 2Little, Brown,, 1918 |
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... that will render sickness tolerable , solitude pleasant , age venerable , life more dignified and useful , and death less terrible . - Sydney Smith . Every man has two educations : that which is given to him and the other that which he ...
... that will render sickness tolerable , solitude pleasant , age venerable , life more dignified and useful , and death less terrible . - Sydney Smith . Every man has two educations : that which is given to him and the other that which he ...
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The Home and Country Readers: Book One-[four], Llibre 4 Mary Augusta Laselle Visualització completa - 1918 |
The Home and Country Readers: Book One-[four], Llibre 4 Mary Augusta Laselle Visualització completa - 1918 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 313 - you can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
Pàgina 352 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations...
Pàgina 273 - In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people - ah, the people They that dwell up in the steeple...
Pàgina 154 - That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.
Pàgina 273 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Pàgina 243 - Abide, abide, The willful waterweeds held me thrall, The laving laurel turned my tide, The ferns and the fondling grass said Stay, \ The dewberry dipped fo*r to work delay, And the little reeds sighed Abide, abide, Here in the hills of Habersham, Here in the -valleys of Hall.
Pàgina 91 - IF I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; If I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face ; If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not ; if morning skies, Books, and my food, and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain : — Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake...
Pàgina 33 - He that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low, no pride; He that is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide.
Pàgina 257 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Pàgina 335 - God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more ; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.