The First-class Reader: A Selection for Exercises in Reading : from Standard British and American Authors, in Prose and Verse : for the Use of Schools in the United StatesRussell, Odiorne, and Metcalf, 1833 - 276 páginas |
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... green lane ; and so near to a grove of oaks and walnuts , that one of the foremost and largest trees brushed against the pulpit window . On the left , and lower down , there was a fertile meadow , through which a clear brook wound its ...
... green lane ; and so near to a grove of oaks and walnuts , that one of the foremost and largest trees brushed against the pulpit window . On the left , and lower down , there was a fertile meadow , through which a clear brook wound its ...
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... green mound had changed its form . I was still contemplating the same trophies of the un- sparing victor , the same mementos of human evanescence . Some were standing upright ; others were inclined to the ground ; some were sunk so ...
... green mound had changed its form . I was still contemplating the same trophies of the un- sparing victor , the same mementos of human evanescence . Some were standing upright ; others were inclined to the ground ; some were sunk so ...
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... green , sheltered by trees , under which the fore- fathers of the present race have sported -- the antique family mansion , standing apart in some little rural domain , but looking down with a protecting air on the surrounding scene 3 ...
... green , sheltered by trees , under which the fore- fathers of the present race have sported -- the antique family mansion , standing apart in some little rural domain , but looking down with a protecting air on the surrounding scene 3 ...
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... green lanes to church ; but it is still more pleasing to see them in the evenings , gathering about their cottage doors , and appearing to exult in the humble comforts and embel- lishments which their own hands have spread around them ...
... green lanes to church ; but it is still more pleasing to see them in the evenings , gathering about their cottage doors , and appearing to exult in the humble comforts and embel- lishments which their own hands have spread around them ...
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... green ; all the processes of fructification might be perfected , without being attended by the glory with which the flower is crowned ; but beauty and fragrance are poured abroad over the earth in blossoms of endless varieties , radiant ...
... green ; all the processes of fructification might be perfected , without being attended by the glory with which the flower is crowned ; but beauty and fragrance are poured abroad over the earth in blossoms of endless varieties , radiant ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Acbar Alhambra Amphibia Anawon animals appeared Babylon beautiful behold beneath birds Boabdil bosom brave breast breath breeze bright brother brow called canoes cataract clouds dark dead death deep deer fly delight earth eternal father feeling feet flowers Flustras Forever charming Fred gaze give glorious glory golden morning break grave Greece green guerite hand happy hath heard heart heaven Herculaneum Hernando de Talavera holy honor hope hour human inaccessible pinnacles land LESSON light lives lofty look Lord mastiff mighty mind Morisco morning mother mountains mysterious nature never night o'er object ocean passed passions peace Persian pleasure river rock round scene seemed shore Sicily silent solemn soul sound spirit stood sublime sweet tears thee thing thou thought thousand toil trees truth virtue voice Wampanoags waters waves wild wind wonderful
Passagens conhecidas
Página 48 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Página 49 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Página 28 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Página 223 - I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
Página 40 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Página 97 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm ; So hallowed and so gracious is the time.
Página 156 - Take thy banner! May it wave Proudly o'er the good and brave; When the battle's distant wail Breaks the sabbath of our vale, When the clarion's music thrills To the hearts of these lone hills, When the spear in conflict shakes, And the strong lance shivering breaks. "Take thy banner! and, beneath The battle-cloud's encircling wreath, Guard it!
Página 24 - In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing. It leads a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such a man may be simple and rough, but he cannot be vulgar.
Página 158 - To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination: he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little.
Página 154 - Oh, few and weak their numbers were — A handful of brave men ; But to their God they gave their prayer, And rushed to battle then.