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 sider |
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Side 15
... extinguished around me , and en- joyed , in all its solitude , the beauteous prospect of night amid the deserts of the New World . An PROSE SELECTIONS . 15 Night Scene in an American Forest CHATEAUBRIAND The Spirit of Poetry.
... extinguished around me , and en- joyed , in all its solitude , the beauteous prospect of night amid the deserts of the New World . An PROSE SELECTIONS . 15 Night Scene in an American Forest CHATEAUBRIAND The Spirit of Poetry.
Side 16
... amid the deserts of the New World . An hour 5 after sunset , the moon appeared above the trees in the opposite horizon . A balmy breeze , which the queen of night brought with her from the east , seemed to precede her in the forests ...
... amid the deserts of the New World . An hour 5 after sunset , the moon appeared above the trees in the opposite horizon . A balmy breeze , which the queen of night brought with her from the east , seemed to precede her in the forests ...
Side 20
... amid the music of his 35 grateful piety . I err with Locke , whose pure philosophy only taught him to adore its source ; whose warm love of genuine liberty was never chilled into rebellion with its author . I err with Newton , whose ...
... amid the music of his 35 grateful piety . I err with Locke , whose pure philosophy only taught him to adore its source ; whose warm love of genuine liberty was never chilled into rebellion with its author . I err with Newton , whose ...
Side 57
... , stern , all - pitiless , and pauses not Amid the mighty wrecks that strew his path , To sit and muse , like other conquerors , Upon the fearful ruin he has wrought . EXERCISE XV . The Spirit of Poetry . - H POETICAL SELECTIONS . 52 57.
... , stern , all - pitiless , and pauses not Amid the mighty wrecks that strew his path , To sit and muse , like other conquerors , Upon the fearful ruin he has wrought . EXERCISE XV . The Spirit of Poetry . - H POETICAL SELECTIONS . 52 57.
Side 58
... amid the tangled woods , 5 10 15 Slips down through moss - grown stones with endless laughter . And frequent , on the everlasting hills , Its feet go forth , when it doth wrap itself In all the dark embroidery of the storm , And shouts ...
... amid the tangled woods , 5 10 15 Slips down through moss - grown stones with endless laughter . And frequent , on the everlasting hills , Its feet go forth , when it doth wrap itself In all the dark embroidery of the storm , And shouts ...
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absolute substance Amalek amid amidst angels ascend awful beauty behold bliss bosom breast breath bright calm clouds crystal water darkness days of disaster deep delight desert distant divine dread dreams dust dwells earth eternal fairy bowers fall fire flowers fools and heroes gentle glorious glory grave green grove happy hast hath heart hearts that hate heaven hills holy hope human immortal light living look Lord Invades loveliness mind morning mountains nature Nature's Nebaioth never night Number o'er passions pleasure Pleiad praise profound darkness repose rise round rural king Sabbath sad cypress scene shade silent sleep smile soft solitude song sorrow soul sound spirit stars stream sublime sweet tender thee things thou art thought thousand throne thunder tion toil torrents tread trembling vale voice wake wild wind wing wintry showers wisdom wonder woods youth
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Side 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!
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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!
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.