Guy's learner's poetic task book, a selection from the modern British poets1849 |
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... MEMORY BY YOUTH OF BOTH SEXES , IN SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES . BY JOSEPH GUY , JUN . OF MAGDALEN HALL , OXFord , Author of the " English School Grammar ; " " New Exercises in Orthography ; " " New Arithmetical Plan ; " " New Exercises in ...
... MEMORY BY YOUTH OF BOTH SEXES , IN SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES . BY JOSEPH GUY , JUN . OF MAGDALEN HALL , OXFord , Author of the " English School Grammar ; " " New Exercises in Orthography ; " " New Arithmetical Plan ; " " New Exercises in ...
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... memory . The choice is sometimes difficult ; and if it be made from the " Speaker , " or any other expensive work , the injury done to those books by the learner in a few hours , is greater than would be many months ' use of them for ...
... memory . The choice is sometimes difficult ; and if it be made from the " Speaker , " or any other expensive work , the injury done to those books by the learner in a few hours , is greater than would be many months ' use of them for ...
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... memory by British youth ; and which , to the latest period of life , may afford a pleasing reminiscence . Some effusions of the American poets have also contributed to enrich the collection . It is to be regretted that the names of the ...
... memory by British youth ; and which , to the latest period of life , may afford a pleasing reminiscence . Some effusions of the American poets have also contributed to enrich the collection . It is to be regretted that the names of the ...
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... memory ponder'd , As daily I strode through the pine - cover'd glade : I sought not my home till the day's dying glory Gave place to the rays of the bright polar star ; For Fancy was cheer'd by traditional story Disclosed by the natives ...
... memory ponder'd , As daily I strode through the pine - cover'd glade : I sought not my home till the day's dying glory Gave place to the rays of the bright polar star ; For Fancy was cheer'd by traditional story Disclosed by the natives ...
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... memory of sorrow grows A lighter burden on the heart . ANGRY WORDS . JAMES MIDDLETON . ANGRY words are lightly spoken In a rash and thoughtless hour ; Brightest links of life are broken By their deep insidious power . Hearts inspiring ...
... memory of sorrow grows A lighter burden on the heart . ANGRY WORDS . JAMES MIDDLETON . ANGRY words are lightly spoken In a rash and thoughtless hour ; Brightest links of life are broken By their deep insidious power . Hearts inspiring ...
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Termos e frases comuns
Angry words ANON beauty BERNARD BARTON birds bless blood and wine bloom brave breast breath breeze bright Brighter Hours brow charm cheek chime clouds dark Loch dead deep doth dream drooping dust e'en earth England's merry bells fading fears feel flowers gale glory glow grave green grief hath haunted ground hear heard heaven HENRY KIRKE WHITE holy Hope JOHN CLARE kind hearts Learn to labour leaves life's light Loch na Garr Look aloft Lord LORD BYRON morning N. P. WILLIS native Nature's ne'er never night pass'd peace POETIC TASK BOOK prayer provideth rest RIVER TRENT ROBERT GILFILLAN round scene shade sigh sing sleep smiling song sorrow soul stormy tempests blow sunshine sweet tears tears of thoughtful tell thee There's thine THOMAS HOOD thou thoughts toil tuning sweet vale W. C. BRYANT wave weary wild winds youth
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Página 78 - It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise! He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes.
Página 23 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood...
Página 82 - I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew ; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat, that once lent me a shade. The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And the scene, where his melody charm'd me before, Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more.
Página 84 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Página 46 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below — As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Página 46 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Página 53 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail : And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Página 22 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Página 64 - The sea, the blue lone sea, hath one, He lies where pearls lie deep, He was the loved of all, yet none O'er his low bed may weep.
Página 82 - Twelve years have elapsed since I first took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew ; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade ! The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat...