A Course of Reading for Common Schools and the Lower Classes of Academies: On the Plan of the Author's "Elements of Reading and Oratory"D. Appleton & Company, 1851 - 377 pages |
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... hands Of heroes . With eye askance I view the muscular proportioned limb Transformed to a lean shank . And still , in memory's twilight bowers , The spirits of departed hours , With mellowing tints , portray The blossoms of life's ...
... hands Of heroes . With eye askance I view the muscular proportioned limb Transformed to a lean shank . And still , in memory's twilight bowers , The spirits of departed hours , With mellowing tints , portray The blossoms of life's ...
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... hand a tone so fine Sweep from the string with touch profane - Can human lip with breath divine Pour on the gale so sweet a strain ! Has nature , in her calm , majestic march , Faltered with age at last ? -Does the bright sun Grow dim ...
... hand a tone so fine Sweep from the string with touch profane - Can human lip with breath divine Pour on the gale so sweet a strain ! Has nature , in her calm , majestic march , Faltered with age at last ? -Does the bright sun Grow dim ...
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... hand But who the wonders of his hand can trace Through the dread ocean of unfathomed space ! Who would choose , how grand soever , The shortest day to last forever ! Who would choose , however bright , A dog - day noon without a night ...
... hand But who the wonders of his hand can trace Through the dread ocean of unfathomed space ! Who would choose , how grand soever , The shortest day to last forever ! Who would choose , however bright , A dog - day noon without a night ...
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... hand from his pocket . ) No : no : you are right . And . You live here , sir ? Mark . Yes , sir . And . You know Mr. Brown , living the other side of the way ! Mark . I do , sir . And . He is at home now ! Mark . No ; he left yesterday ...
... hand from his pocket . ) No : no : you are right . And . You live here , sir ? Mark . Yes , sir . And . You know Mr. Brown , living the other side of the way ! Mark . I do , sir . And . He is at home now ! Mark . No ; he left yesterday ...
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... What ! ho ! my lord , my lord ! Oth . Who's there ! Emil . O my good lord , I would speak a word with you . Ham . Hold off thy hand . King . Pluck them asunder . Queen . All . Gentlemen , - Hor . Hamlet 60 COURSE OF READING .
... What ! ho ! my lord , my lord ! Oth . Who's there ! Emil . O my good lord , I would speak a word with you . Ham . Hold off thy hand . King . Pluck them asunder . Queen . All . Gentlemen , - Hor . Hamlet 60 COURSE OF READING .
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Page 190 - ... When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their...
Page 140 - He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
Page 144 - For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward ; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation ; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him...
Page 90 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Page 289 - High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Page 74 - Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin : but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Page 253 - Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 87 - Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Page 238 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Page 87 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no meat ; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls : Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.