The Moral and Intellectual School Book: Containing Instructions for Reading and Speaking, Lessons on Religion, Morality, Science, and Philosophy, Rhetoric and Oratory : with Copious Extracts from the Modern Poets, and Remarks on Their Genius and WritingsDarton and Clark, 1838 - 348 páginas |
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... Once let men thoroughly believe they are the work and sport of chance ; that no superior intelligence concerns itself with human affairs ; that all their im- provements perish for ever at death ; that the weak have no guardian , and the ...
... Once let men thoroughly believe they are the work and sport of chance ; that no superior intelligence concerns itself with human affairs ; that all their im- provements perish for ever at death ; that the weak have no guardian , and the ...
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... once so sim- ple and so sublime , should be merely the work of man ? Is it possible that the sacred personage whose history it contains , should be himself a mere man ? Do we find that he assumed the tone of an enthusiast or ambitious ...
... once so sim- ple and so sublime , should be merely the work of man ? Is it possible that the sacred personage whose history it contains , should be himself a mere man ? Do we find that he assumed the tone of an enthusiast or ambitious ...
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... once situated on the brink of the sea , or of large pools , are now several miles distant from the water . In Holland and Italy , the Rhine and the Po , since they have been banked up by dykes , raise their beds and push forward their ...
... once situated on the brink of the sea , or of large pools , are now several miles distant from the water . In Holland and Italy , the Rhine and the Po , since they have been banked up by dykes , raise their beds and push forward their ...
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... once , from midnight darkness to the splendour of noon - day ; and at sun - set should make a sudden transition from the splendour of day to all the horrors of midnight , which would bewilder the traveller in his journey , and strike ...
... once , from midnight darkness to the splendour of noon - day ; and at sun - set should make a sudden transition from the splendour of day to all the horrors of midnight , which would bewilder the traveller in his journey , and strike ...
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... once to acquire this new velocity , they are left behind , and instead of being north and south winds as they would be if the earth's surface did not turn round , they become north - east and south - east winds , The monsoons belong to ...
... once to acquire this new velocity , they are left behind , and instead of being north and south winds as they would be if the earth's surface did not turn round , they become north - east and south - east winds , The monsoons belong to ...
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Página 319 - Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot : O Christ ! That ever this should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
Página 265 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear,— both what they half create, And what perceive; well pleased to recognize In nature and the language of the sense, The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.
Página 260 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? What ignorance of pain? With thy clear keen joyance Languor cannot be: Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee: Thou lovest - but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.
Página 192 - Ay, more. Fret till your proud heart break ; Go show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Página 188 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; •> I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; \ So let it be with Caesar.
Página 296 - And often when I go to plough The ploughshare turns them out. For many thousand men/ said he, 'Were slain in that great victory.' 'Now tell us what 'twas all about...
Página 257 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Página 185 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Página 270 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward...
Página 189 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.