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, 1866 - 436 pages |
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Page xxiii
... born of ambition . NOBLE one , and who shall blame it ? ” 2. " The plumage of the mocking - bird , though none of the homeliest , has nothing gaudy or brilliant in it ; and had he nothing else to recommend him , would scarcely entitle ...
... born of ambition . NOBLE one , and who shall blame it ? ” 2. " The plumage of the mocking - bird , though none of the homeliest , has nothing gaudy or brilliant in it ; and had he nothing else to recommend him , would scarcely entitle ...
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... born , — imaged — in her tranquil beauty and profound repòse . - " Waking , she never wandered in her mind but once , and that was at beautiful music , which , she said , was in the aìr ! God knows . It may have been . " Opening her ...
... born , — imaged — in her tranquil beauty and profound repòse . - " Waking , she never wandered in her mind but once , and that was at beautiful music , which , she said , was in the aìr ! God knows . It may have been . " Opening her ...
Page lxx
... born's breath ; Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke , And crowded cities wail its stroke ; Come in Consumption's ghastly form , The earthquake shock , the ocean storm , Come when the heart beats high and warm ...
... born's breath ; Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke , And crowded cities wail its stroke ; Come in Consumption's ghastly form , The earthquake shock , the ocean storm , Come when the heart beats high and warm ...
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... born to die ! " Both ludicrous ' and sarcastic ' pieces should have long circumflex slides ' and ' compound ' abrupt stress , ' ' long quan- tity and pauses ' on the emphatic words ; but punning and raillery , when good - natured ...
... born to die ! " Both ludicrous ' and sarcastic ' pieces should have long circumflex slides ' and ' compound ' abrupt stress , ' ' long quan- tity and pauses ' on the emphatic words ; but punning and raillery , when good - natured ...
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... born of her strength ; yesterday he bounded as the roebuck ; was glowing as the summer - fruits ; active in 10 sports , strong to labor ; he has passed in one moment from youth to age ; his comeliness is departed ; helplessness is his ...
... born of her strength ; yesterday he bounded as the roebuck ; was glowing as the summer - fruits ; active in 10 sports , strong to labor ; he has passed in one moment from youth to age ; his comeliness is departed ; helplessness is his ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 364 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld thou rollest now.
Page 406 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
Page 418 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 229 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 418 - 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.
Page 286 - Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more...
Page 406 - 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.
Page 231 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...