Choice Selections: Being about Six Hundred Extracts from More Than Two Hundred Different Authors : Designed for Lessons in Recitation, Reading, Morals, and LiteratureD. Appleton, 1888 - 212 pages |
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... ocean , More beautiful far than it rose . - -Geo . P. Morris . 78. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps , What seem to us like sad funereal tapers , May be Heaven's distant lamps . - Longfellow . 79 ...
... ocean , More beautiful far than it rose . - -Geo . P. Morris . 78. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps , What seem to us like sad funereal tapers , May be Heaven's distant lamps . - Longfellow . 79 ...
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... emotion , Were we to our lot but resigned , Than pebbles flung into the ocean , That leave scarce a ripple behind . - -Geo . P. Morris . 90. Speak properly , and in as few words as 22 Memory, Female Fortitude, W Irving,
... emotion , Were we to our lot but resigned , Than pebbles flung into the ocean , That leave scarce a ripple behind . - -Geo . P. Morris . 90. Speak properly , and in as few words as 22 Memory, Female Fortitude, W Irving,
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... ocean , the furrows of land ; In the mountain of granite , the atom of sand ; Turn where ye may , from the sky to the sod , Where can ye gaze that ye see not a God ? -Eliza Cook . 128. Moral beauty comprises two distinct elements ...
... ocean , the furrows of land ; In the mountain of granite , the atom of sand ; Turn where ye may , from the sky to the sod , Where can ye gaze that ye see not a God ? -Eliza Cook . 128. Moral beauty comprises two distinct elements ...
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... ocean , rouse the faculties and excite the invention , pru- dence , skill , and fortitude of the voyager . - Anon . 183. A pebble in the streamlet scant Has turned the course of many a river ; A dew - drop on the infant plant Has warped ...
... ocean , rouse the faculties and excite the invention , pru- dence , skill , and fortitude of the voyager . - Anon . 183. A pebble in the streamlet scant Has turned the course of many a river ; A dew - drop on the infant plant Has warped ...
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... ocean where time is no more . Take heed to the moments ; for with them they bear Of gems the most precious , and diamonds rare . Take care of the moments ; for life's but a span ; Then carefully hoard them , O vain , dreaming man ! -J ...
... ocean where time is no more . Take heed to the moments ; for with them they bear Of gems the most precious , and diamonds rare . Take care of the moments ; for life's but a span ; Then carefully hoard them , O vain , dreaming man ! -J ...
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