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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... Sorrow for the Dead . 4. The Bible ..... 5. The Religious Faith of the Red Man 6. The Sabbath Bell in the Country . 7. Studies .... 8. Influence of Human Knowledge . 9. Sublimity of Ossian's Poems . .W . IRVING . 17 .PHILLIPS . 19 ...
... Sorrow for the Dead . 4. The Bible ..... 5. The Religious Faith of the Red Man 6. The Sabbath Bell in the Country . 7. Studies .... 8. Influence of Human Knowledge . 9. Sublimity of Ossian's Poems . .W . IRVING . 17 .PHILLIPS . 19 ...
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... sorrow , with re- pentance ; and wish , but too often vainly wish , that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue . 66 ' Happy are they , my son , who shall learn from thy example not to despair , but shall remember , that , though 140 ...
... sorrow , with re- pentance ; and wish , but too often vainly wish , that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue . 66 ' Happy are they , my son , who shall learn from thy example not to despair , but shall remember , that , though 140 ...
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... sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced . Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget ; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood ...
... sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced . Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget ; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood ...
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... sorrow to the soul , or a furrow to the silvered brow of an affectionate parent— 40 if thou art a husband , and hast ever caused the fond bosom that ventured its whole happiness in thy arms , to doubt one moment of thy kindness or thy ...
... sorrow to the soul , or a furrow to the silvered brow of an affectionate parent— 40 if thou art a husband , and hast ever caused the fond bosom that ventured its whole happiness in thy arms , to doubt one moment of thy kindness or thy ...
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... sorrow returned with the dawning of morn , And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away . EXERCISE III . Consumption . PERCIVAL . There is a sweetness in woman's decay , When the light of beauty is fading away , When the bright ...
... sorrow returned with the dawning of morn , And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away . EXERCISE III . Consumption . PERCIVAL . There is a sweetness in woman's decay , When the light of beauty is fading away , When the bright ...
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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.