Class Book of Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Selections from the Best English and American Authors : Designed as Exercises in Passing : for the Use of Common Schools and AcademiesRobert S. Davis, 1850 - 120 pàgines |
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Pàgina 39
... Vale of years ; 15 Yet have I thought that we might also speak , And not presumptuously , I trust , of Age , As of a final Eminence , though bare In aspect and forbidding , yet a Point On which ' t is not impossible to sit In awful ...
... Vale of years ; 15 Yet have I thought that we might also speak , And not presumptuously , I trust , of Age , As of a final Eminence , though bare In aspect and forbidding , yet a Point On which ' t is not impossible to sit In awful ...
Pàgina 40
... vale below , Ascending ! — For on that superior height Who sits , is disencumbered from the press Of near obstructions , and is privileged To breathe in solitude above the host Of ever - humming insects , ' mid thin air That suits not ...
... vale below , Ascending ! — For on that superior height Who sits , is disencumbered from the press Of near obstructions , and is privileged To breathe in solitude above the host Of ever - humming insects , ' mid thin air That suits not ...
Pàgina 50
... vale , In peals of thunder , and thick - vollied hail ; Prone rushing rains with torrents whelm'd the land , Our cot amidst a river seemed to stand ; Around its base , the foamy - crested streams 55 Flashed through the darkness to the ...
... vale , In peals of thunder , and thick - vollied hail ; Prone rushing rains with torrents whelm'd the land , Our cot amidst a river seemed to stand ; Around its base , the foamy - crested streams 55 Flashed through the darkness to the ...
Pàgina 59
... vale , The distant lake , fountains , and mighty trees , In many a lazy syllable , repeating 35 Their old poetical legends to the wind . And this is the sweet spirit that doth fill The world ; and , in these wayward days of youth , My ...
... vale , The distant lake , fountains , and mighty trees , In many a lazy syllable , repeating 35 Their old poetical legends to the wind . And this is the sweet spirit that doth fill The world ; and , in these wayward days of youth , My ...
Pàgina 65
... vale ; The river's crystal , and the meadow's green Grateful diversity ! -allure the eye Abroad , to rove amid ten thousand charms . 70 These scenes , where every Virtue , every Muse , Delighted range , serene the soul , and lift ...
... vale ; The river's crystal , and the meadow's green Grateful diversity ! -allure the eye Abroad , to rove amid ten thousand charms . 70 These scenes , where every Virtue , every Muse , Delighted range , serene the soul , and lift ...
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Class Book of Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Selections from the Best ... Truman Rickard,Hiram Orcutt Visualització completa - 1865 |
Class Book of Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Selections from the Best ... Truman Rickard,Hiram Orcutt Visualització completa - 1878 |
Class Book of Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Selection from the Best ... Truman Rickard Visualització completa - 1863 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 92 - Cameron's gathering" rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Pàgina 22 - 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.
Pàgina 92 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed. The mustering squadron, and the clattering car. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Pàgina 91 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
Pàgina 115 - Yet a few days and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Pàgina 91 - Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear. And when they smiled because he deemed it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretched his father on a bloody bier, And roused the vengeance blood alone could quell: He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell.
Pàgina 115 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house...
Pàgina 22 - ... 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.
Pàgina 116 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Pàgina 48 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.