Town's Fourth Reader: Containing a Selection of Lessons, Exclusively from American Authors ...Derby, 1845 - 288 pages |
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... kings have come to these solemn cloisters at last , to forget in the deep slumber of the grave the troubles , the follies , and the guilt of the life just ended . No one of them , as he went to his sepulchre , stopped to listen to the ...
... kings have come to these solemn cloisters at last , to forget in the deep slumber of the grave the troubles , the follies , and the guilt of the life just ended . No one of them , as he went to his sepulchre , stopped to listen to the ...
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... kings have a name and a grave within these solemn cham- bers . Bucklers , helmets , and broadswords are spread over the tomb of the bold baron ; the cross and the crosier mark the sepulchre of some pious bishop ; and over this tomb are ...
... kings have a name and a grave within these solemn cham- bers . Bucklers , helmets , and broadswords are spread over the tomb of the bold baron ; the cross and the crosier mark the sepulchre of some pious bishop ; and over this tomb are ...
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... kings ! Is never a sigh heard to come forth from these damp tombs ? a shout from some sleeping warrior ? Might we not hear from some part of the Abbey a faint voice as if it came from " spirit land ? ” No ! these dead do never waken or ...
... kings ! Is never a sigh heard to come forth from these damp tombs ? a shout from some sleeping warrior ? Might we not hear from some part of the Abbey a faint voice as if it came from " spirit land ? ” No ! these dead do never waken or ...
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... kings , And crowns , and all earth's proudest things , It scatter'd at thy feet . ' Tis vanished ! " like a morning cloud " - The throne , the king , the shouting crowd , And here I stand alone ; And like the ocean's solemn roar Upon ...
... kings , And crowns , and all earth's proudest things , It scatter'd at thy feet . ' Tis vanished ! " like a morning cloud " - The throne , the king , the shouting crowd , And here I stand alone ; And like the ocean's solemn roar Upon ...
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... king was christened or buried in that church ; and a little sexton , with a great rusty key , shows you the baptismal font , or the coffin . In the church - yard are a few flowers , and much green grass ; and daily the shadow of the ...
... king was christened or buried in that church ; and a little sexton , with a great rusty key , shows you the baptismal font , or the coffin . In the church - yard are a few flowers , and much green grass ; and daily the shadow of the ...
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Page 213 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 215 - Shall one by one be gathered to thy side By those who in their turn shall follow them.
Page 16 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! Let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Page 241 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry, for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the house. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received?
Page 15 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these...
Page 235 - He thinks the whole world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes, and almost hears its workings in the very silence of his thoughts. It has become his master. It betrays his discretion, it breaks down his courage, it conquers his prudence. When suspicions from without begin to embarrass him, and the net of circumstance to entangle him, the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth.
Page 228 - True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it; but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way ; but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, .and in the occasion.
Page 250 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence, — a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task ; which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union, and the patronage of heaven.
Page 215 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 48 - English scenery is the moral feeling that seems to pervade it. It is associated in the mind with ideas of order, of quiet, of sober well-established principles, of hoary usage and reverend custom.