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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... Youth , will be acknowledged a task of much importance and no little delicacy . Purity of sen- timent , blended with that which may inform the under- standing , while at the same time it interests the heart , is indispensable . The ...
... Youth , will be acknowledged a task of much importance and no little delicacy . Purity of sen- timent , blended with that which may inform the under- standing , while at the same time it interests the heart , is indispensable . The ...
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... youth ; partly because they had nothing else to do at that age , and partly because literature was thought the dis- tinction , not the want of it the mark , of good birth . The severity of their climate , the height of their moun- tains ...
... youth ; partly because they had nothing else to do at that age , and partly because literature was thought the dis- tinction , not the want of it the mark , of good birth . The severity of their climate , the height of their moun- tains ...
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... youth in its loveliness and purity . The ancient Greeks , whose souls preeminently sympa- thized with the spirit of grace and beauty in every thing , were enthusiastic in their love , and lavish in their use of flowers . They scattered ...
... youth in its loveliness and purity . The ancient Greeks , whose souls preeminently sympa- thized with the spirit of grace and beauty in every thing , were enthusiastic in their love , and lavish in their use of flowers . They scattered ...
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... youth - bring him flowers , wild flowers Bring flowers , fresh flowers , for the bride to wear ! They were born to blush in her shining hair . She is leaving the home of her childhood's mirth , She hath bid farewell to her father's ...
... youth - bring him flowers , wild flowers Bring flowers , fresh flowers , for the bride to wear ! They were born to blush in her shining hair . She is leaving the home of her childhood's mirth , She hath bid farewell to her father's ...
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... youth . own . He instructed his sisters in the pronunciation of Greek and Latin , and employed one or other constantly in the task of reading aloud to him the classics , usually taught in the schools . A naturally faithful memory ...
... youth . own . He instructed his sisters in the pronunciation of Greek and Latin , and employed one or other constantly in the task of reading aloud to him the classics , usually taught in the schools . A naturally faithful memory ...
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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.