Questions for Written Examinations: An Aid to Candidates for Teachers ̕certificates, and a Hand-book for Examiners and Teachers

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Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Company, 1872 - 206 páginas
 

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Página 33 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 32 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Página 21 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 31 - These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles : And every sense and every heart is joy.
Página 31 - We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best...
Página 31 - With mittened hands, and caps drawn low, To guard our necks and ears from snow, We cut the solid whiteness through. And, where the drift was deepest, made A tunnel walled and overlaid...
Página 27 - Was struck — struck like a dog — by one who wore The badge of Ursini, because, forsooth, He tossed not high his ready cap in air Nor lifted up his voice in servile shouts At sight of that great ruffian ! Be we men, And suffer such dishonor? men, and wash not The stain away in blood ? Such shames are common.
Página 145 - Have you confessed yourself, brother," said the Templar, "and have you heard mass this morning, that you peril your life so frankly?" "I am fitter to meet death than thou art," answered the Disinherited Knight ; for by this name the stranger had recorded himself in the books of the tourney. "Then take your place in the lists," said Bois-Guilbert, "and look your last upon the sun; for this night thou shalt sleep in paradise.
Página 19 - SPAKE full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the ilowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.
Página 105 - ... 2. A. can do a piece of work in 4 days, B. can do it in 6 days, C.

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