The pupil's manual of choice reading, arranged by T.B. Smith |
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... Eternal Love doth keep In his complacent arms , the earth , the air , the deep . Will , then , the Merciful One , -who stamped our race With his own image , and who gave them sway O'er earth , and the glad dwellers on her face , Now ...
... Eternal Love doth keep In his complacent arms , the earth , the air , the deep . Will , then , the Merciful One , -who stamped our race With his own image , and who gave them sway O'er earth , and the glad dwellers on her face , Now ...
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... eternal shadows o'er their face ; - When , from the genial cradle of our race , Went forth the tribes of men , their pleasant lot To choose , where palm - groves cooled their dwelling - place , Or freshening rivers ran ; and there ...
... eternal shadows o'er their face ; - When , from the genial cradle of our race , Went forth the tribes of men , their pleasant lot To choose , where palm - groves cooled their dwelling - place , Or freshening rivers ran ; and there ...
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... eternal , then the haughty swordsmen came , Lictor's fasces , gory ax - head , and the she - wolf's glance of flame ; And four ever famous letters borne on high in that array , Told a world that Rome was present - proudly bade the world ...
... eternal , then the haughty swordsmen came , Lictor's fasces , gory ax - head , and the she - wolf's glance of flame ; And four ever famous letters borne on high in that array , Told a world that Rome was present - proudly bade the world ...
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... vast ; Yet in the air and on the sea , The voice of the Eternal one Breathed forth the song of hope to me , And bade me journey on ! * In 1492 . My bark ! the winds are fair unfurl'd To waft 36 HISTORICAL SELECTIONS .
... vast ; Yet in the air and on the sea , The voice of the Eternal one Breathed forth the song of hope to me , And bade me journey on ! * In 1492 . My bark ! the winds are fair unfurl'd To waft 36 HISTORICAL SELECTIONS .
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... eternal picture , the wide activity and universal humanity then projected into coming time , Shakspeare unfolded in the drama all the experience that life in- cludes , and all the powers it enlists and illustrates . Christian Examiner ...
... eternal picture , the wide activity and universal humanity then projected into coming time , Shakspeare unfolded in the drama all the experience that life in- cludes , and all the powers it enlists and illustrates . Christian Examiner ...
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arms battle beautiful behold bells blessing blood blood-hounds bosom brave breast breath bright brow Brutus Cæsar Cassius clouds dark dead death deep doth earth England Erin go bragh eternal eyes father fear feel fire flowers gallant Gelert glorious glory grave hand hast hath hear heard heart heaven helmet of Navarre hills holy honourable human HYDER ALI Inchcape Rock Jehovah king land Lars Porsena light live Lochiel look Lord loud lyre mighty mind morning mountain nations never night noble o'er ocean peace pennon plain prayer proud roar rock rolling Rome round Saint Guthlac Saxon SHAKSPEARE shine shore shout silent Skiddaw sleep smile song soul sound spirit stars stood storm stream sweet sword tears tell tempest thee thine thou thought thousand throne thunder toil Trust truth Twas unto voice waves wild wind
Popular passages
Page 166 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 49 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Page 155 - THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 156 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 205 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 158 - THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior! "Try not the Pass!
Page 44 - Cameron's gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard,— and heard, too, have her Saxon foes; How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
Page 147 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Page 57 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 44 - As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before! Arm! Arm! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar! Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear...