The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with Biographical and Critical Notices of the Authors : for the Use of Advanced Classes in Public and Private SchoolsBrewer and Tileston, 1863 - 436 Seiten |
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... Dead . 65. Incentives to Duty .. 70. On the Pleasure of Acquiring Knowledge .. 73. The Bible ...... 75. The Introduction of Christianity into Europe .. 8 !, The Roman Empire a Preparation for Christianity . 82. Wanders of Astronomy ...
... Dead . 65. Incentives to Duty .. 70. On the Pleasure of Acquiring Knowledge .. 73. The Bible ...... 75. The Introduction of Christianity into Europe .. 8 !, The Roman Empire a Preparation for Christianity . 82. Wanders of Astronomy ...
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... dead elements of elocution , in the life - giving light of inspiring ideas . " There is in souls a sympathy with sounds . " This analogy in Nature between tones and sentiments is the central source from which the author has drawn the ...
... dead elements of elocution , in the life - giving light of inspiring ideas . " There is in souls a sympathy with sounds . " This analogy in Nature between tones and sentiments is the central source from which the author has drawn the ...
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... dead . No sleep so beautiful and calm , so free from trace of pain , so fair to look upon . She seemed a creature FRESH from the hand of GoD , and waiting for the breath of life ; not one who HAD lived and suffered DEATH Her couch was ...
... dead . No sleep so beautiful and calm , so free from trace of pain , so fair to look upon . She seemed a creature FRESH from the hand of GoD , and waiting for the breath of life ; not one who HAD lived and suffered DEATH Her couch was ...
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... dead . Her little bird , —a poor , slight thing the pressure of a finger would have crúshed , was stirring nimbly in its cáge , and the strong heart of its child - mistress was mute and mòtionless forever ! - - - “ Sórrow was dead ...
... dead . Her little bird , —a poor , slight thing the pressure of a finger would have crúshed , was stirring nimbly in its cáge , and the strong heart of its child - mistress was mute and mòtionless forever ! - - - “ Sórrow was dead ...
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... dead whose glorious mind Lifts thine on high ? To live in hearts we leave behind , Is not to die . " Is ' t death to fall for Freedom's right ? He's dead alone that lacks her light ! And murder sullies in Heaven's sight The sword he ...
... dead whose glorious mind Lifts thine on high ? To live in hearts we leave behind , Is not to die . " Is ' t death to fall for Freedom's right ? He's dead alone that lacks her light ! And murder sullies in Heaven's sight The sword he ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite lxiv - What thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Seite 417 - Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, Quite vanquished him. Then burst his mighty heart; And in his mantle muffling up his face, Even at the base of Pompey's statue (Which all the while ran blood) great Caesar fell.
Seite lxv - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
Seite lxi - tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Seite 237 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Seite 121 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of death Rode the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them...
Seite 404 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Seite xlv - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Seite 415 - 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.
Seite 140 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.