A Week on the Concord and Merrimac RiversHoughton, Mifflin, 1893 - 531 páginas |
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... sounds the brass in the east " 66 Greece , who am I that should remember thee " " Some tumultuous little rill " " I make ye an offer " • • " Conscience is instinct bred in the house " " Such water do the gods distill " " That Phaeton of ...
... sounds the brass in the east " 66 Greece , who am I that should remember thee " " Some tumultuous little rill " " I make ye an offer " • • " Conscience is instinct bred in the house " " Such water do the gods distill " " That Phaeton of ...
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... sound estate they ever mend , To every asker readily lend ; To the ocean wealth , To the meadow health , To Time his length , To the rocks strength , To the stars light , To the weary night , To the busy day , To the idle play ; And so ...
... sound estate they ever mend , To every asker readily lend ; To the ocean wealth , To the meadow health , To Time his length , To the rocks strength , To the stars light , To the weary night , To the busy day , To the idle play ; And so ...
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... sound , Or faintest light that falls on earthly ground , If he could know it one day would be found That star in Cygnus whither we are bound , And pale our sun with heavenly radiance round ? Gradually the village murmur subsided , and ...
... sound , Or faintest light that falls on earthly ground , If he could know it one day would be found That star in Cygnus whither we are bound , And pale our sun with heavenly radiance round ? Gradually the village murmur subsided , and ...
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... sound which near at hand broke the stillness of the night , each crackling of the twigs , or rustling among the leaves , there was a sudden pause , and deeper and more conscious silence , as if the intruder were aware that no life was ...
... sound which near at hand broke the stillness of the night , each crackling of the twigs , or rustling among the leaves , there was a sudden pause , and deeper and more conscious silence , as if the intruder were aware that no life was ...
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... sounds , the crowing of cocks , the baying of dogs , and the hum of insects at noon , are the evidence of nature's health or sound state . Such is the never - failing beauty and accuracy of language , the most perfect art in the world ...
... sounds , the crowing of cocks , the baying of dogs , and the hum of insects at noon , are the evidence of nature's health or sound state . Such is the never - failing beauty and accuracy of language , the most perfect art in the world ...
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Anacreon ancient bank beauty behold Billerica boat Brahmans called Chelmsford clouds Concord Concord River distant doth dream Dunstable earth English eyes falls fishes floating flow flowers forest FRANCIS QUARLES freshet Friend Friendship genius gods Goffstown grass Haverhill hear heard heavens hills Homer Hooksett Indians inhabitants island labor land leaves length light lives look Lowell man's mankind meadows Merrimack Merrimack River miles morning mountains muskrats Nashua nature never night noon Ossian passed Pawtucket Falls Penacook perchance Philyra PINDAR pine poet poetry Pylians Pythagoras race rare river Robin Hood rocks round Sachem sail Salmon Brook sand says seemed seen sense sentences serene shine shore side silent sometimes sound speak stand stars stones stream summer things thou thought tion town traveler trees true truth Tyngsborough wild wind wisdom woods words
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Página 8 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set today a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Página 82 - DO not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
Página 150 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Página 120 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refined with th
Página 113 - Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man 'cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institutions — such I call good books.
Página 391 - The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be his neighbor, there is an unsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log house with the bark on where he is, fronting IT, and wage there an Old French war for seven or seventy years, with Indians and Rangers, or whatever else may come between him and the reality, and save his scalp if he can.
Página 118 - Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
Página 194 - Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
Página 504 - Therefore, as doth the pilgrim, whom the night Hastes darkly to imprison on his way, Think on thy home, my soul, and think aright Of what's yet left thee of life's wasting day: Thy sun posts westward, passed is thy morn, And twice it is not given thee to be born.
Página 334 - And what avails it now that we are wise, If absence doth this doubleness contrive ? Eternity may not the chance repeat, But I must tread my single way alone, In sad remembrance that we once did meet, And know that bliss irrevocably gone.