Classical English Reader: Selections from Standard Authors with Explanatory and Critical Foot-notesGinn, 1888 - 452 pages |
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Page 49
... carried it with him to the camp and the cabinet , and established a new criterion of human greatness . The purity of his will confirmed his fortitude ; and , as he never faltered in his faith in virtue , he stood fast by that which he ...
... carried it with him to the camp and the cabinet , and established a new criterion of human greatness . The purity of his will confirmed his fortitude ; and , as he never faltered in his faith in virtue , he stood fast by that which he ...
Page 64
... carry us to be more learned than they were in these killing and destructive arts . Great wisdom it will be in your lordships , and just providence for yourselves , for your posterities , for the whole kingdom , to cast from you into the ...
... carry us to be more learned than they were in these killing and destructive arts . Great wisdom it will be in your lordships , and just providence for yourselves , for your posterities , for the whole kingdom , to cast from you into the ...
Page 65
... carrying it into execution , whether , in fact , a more unfortunate period could have been selected than that which he has 7 Whitelocke , a bitter enemy of Strafford , and chairman of the committee for drawing up charges against him ...
... carrying it into execution , whether , in fact , a more unfortunate period could have been selected than that which he has 7 Whitelocke , a bitter enemy of Strafford , and chairman of the committee for drawing up charges against him ...
Page 69
... carried his throat about with him in this world for seventy - two years , no man ever condescended to cut it . Hobbes - but why , or on what principle , I never could under- stand was not murdered . This was a capital oversight of the ...
... carried his throat about with him in this world for seventy - two years , no man ever condescended to cut it . Hobbes - but why , or on what principle , I never could under- stand was not murdered . This was a capital oversight of the ...
Page 70
... carry my delicacy too far . Genius may do much , but long study of the art must always entitle a man to offer advice . So far I will go , general principles I will suggest . But as to any par- ticular case , once for all , I will have ...
... carry my delicacy too far . Genius may do much , but long study of the art must always entitle a man to offer advice . So far I will go , general principles I will suggest . But as to any par- ticular case , once for all , I will have ...
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Page 280 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong.
Page 76 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Page 209 - The Epitaph Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery all he had, a tear, He gain'd from Heaven, 'twas all he wish'd, a friend.
Page 207 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 434 - 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
Page 281 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Page 281 - Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!
Page 31 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 185 - 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!
Page 138 - MAY MORNING. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.