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 StatesClaremont Manufacturing Company, 1841 - 276 páginas |
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... Bird 103 Night Poetry The Dying Boy - Sonnet Sailor's Funeral New - England's Dead Napoleon Dying Hymn of the Moravian Nuns at the Consecration of Pulaski's Banner The Child of Earth · Mrs. Sigourney 117 B. B. Thatcher 119 · Montgomery ...
... Bird 103 Night Poetry The Dying Boy - Sonnet Sailor's Funeral New - England's Dead Napoleon Dying Hymn of the Moravian Nuns at the Consecration of Pulaski's Banner The Child of Earth · Mrs. Sigourney 117 B. B. Thatcher 119 · Montgomery ...
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... bird trying her wings ; man going forth to his labor ; each created being moving , thinking , acting , contriving ... birds , and sends man forth to his labor ? What are the effects of its return , on other created beings ? Do these ...
... bird trying her wings ; man going forth to his labor ; each created being moving , thinking , acting , contriving ... birds , and sends man forth to his labor ? What are the effects of its return , on other created beings ? Do these ...
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... bird . ' How does a ' bird ' differ from an insect ? ' De- fine ' trying . ' Give the derivatives of try . Define ' wings . Give the derivatives of it . What do you con- sider to be comprehended in the term created being ? ' Is it ...
... bird . ' How does a ' bird ' differ from an insect ? ' De- fine ' trying . ' Give the derivatives of try . Define ' wings . Give the derivatives of it . What do you con- sider to be comprehended in the term created being ? ' Is it ...
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... birds and flowers , from which depended two horns of glazed powder ; a similar belt enriched his head , hanging down from his back : to this were attached two flags which waved behind him : on his neck he wore another belt reach- ing to ...
... birds and flowers , from which depended two horns of glazed powder ; a similar belt enriched his head , hanging down from his back : to this were attached two flags which waved behind him : on his neck he wore another belt reach- ing to ...
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... BIRD of the broad and sweeping wing Thy home is high in heaven , Where wide the storms their banners fling , And the tempest clouds are driven . Thy throne is on the mountain top ; Thy fields 60 FIRST - CLASS READER . - Percival.
... BIRD of the broad and sweeping wing Thy home is high in heaven , Where wide the storms their banners fling , And the tempest clouds are driven . Thy throne is on the mountain top ; Thy fields 60 FIRST - CLASS READER . - Percival.
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The First-class Reader: A Selection for Exercises in Reading from Standard ... Benjamin Dudley Emerson Visualização completa - 1833 |
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Acbar Alhambra animals appeared Aurora Borealis Babylon beauty behold beneath birds Boabdil bosom brave breath breeze bright brother brow called canoes cataract character clouds dark dead death deep deer fly delight dream earth eternal father feeling feet flowers Forever charming friends gaze give glorious glory golden morning break grave Greece green guerite hand happiness hath heard heart heaven Herculaneum Hernando de Talavera holy honor hope hour human land LESSON light lives lofty look Mark Stuart mastiff mighty mind morning mother mountains mysterious nature never night o'er object ocean Ossian passed passions pathies peace pleasure river rock round scene seemed shore silent solemn soul sound spirit stood stream sublime sweet tears thee thing thou thought thousand toil trees truth virtue voice Wampanoags waters waves wild wind wonderful youth
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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 185 - THE EVENING WIND Spirit that breathest through my lattice, thou That cool'st the twilight of the sultry day, Gratefully flows thy freshness round my brow; Thou hast been out upon the deep at play, Riding all day the wild blue waves till now, Roughening their crests, and scattering high their spray, And swelling the white sail. I welcome thee To the scorched land, thou wanderer of the sea!
Página 118 - Night is the time for dreams ; The gay romance of life, When truth that is, and truth that seems, Blend in fantastic strife ; ' Ah! visions less beguiling far Than waking dreams by daylight are! Night is the...
Página 49 - 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 184 - Thou changest not ; but I am changed, Since first thy pleasant banks I ranged ; And the grave stranger, come to see The play-place of his infancy, Has scarce a single trace of him Who sported once upon thy brim. The visions of my youth are past — Too bright, too beautiful to last.
Página 69 - The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea.
Página 152 - Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.
Página 183 - THIS little rill, that from the springs Of yonder grove its current brings, Plays on the slope awhile, and then Goes prattling into groves again, Oft to its warbling waters drew My little feet, when life was new. When woods in early green were dressed, And from the chambers of the west The...
Página 127 - Such was the solemn and pious manner in which the brilliant court of Spain celebrated this sublime event ; offering up a grateful tribute of melody and praise, and giving glory to God for the discovery of another world.
Página 152 - The corn, half garnered, on the plain, And mustered, in their simple dress, For wrongs to seek a stern redress ; To right those wrongs, come weal, come woe, To perish, or o'ercome their foe.