The pupil's manual of choice reading, arranged by T.B. Smith |
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... it bursts its banks at night ) They pause- Pennon and scarf , and gallant plumage fair , Spread out and fluttering on the mountain air , Like ocean's whitening spray . Hark ! to the hum , The cheer , the HISTORICAL SELECTIONS .
... it bursts its banks at night ) They pause- Pennon and scarf , and gallant plumage fair , Spread out and fluttering on the mountain air , Like ocean's whitening spray . Hark ! to the hum , The cheer , the HISTORICAL SELECTIONS .
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... gallant trim the gilded vessel goes ; Youth on the prow , and Pleasure at the helm : Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway , That , hush'd in grim repose , expects his evening prey . " Fill high the sparkling bowl , The rich ...
... gallant trim the gilded vessel goes ; Youth on the prow , and Pleasure at the helm : Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway , That , hush'd in grim repose , expects his evening prey . " Fill high the sparkling bowl , The rich ...
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... gallant Gordons many a one , And many a stubborn Highlandman , And many a rugged Border clan , With Huntly , and with Home . Far on the left , unseen the while , Stanley broke Lennox and Argyle ; Though there the western mountaineer ...
... gallant Gordons many a one , And many a stubborn Highlandman , And many a rugged Border clan , With Huntly , and with Home . Far on the left , unseen the while , Stanley broke Lennox and Argyle ; Though there the western mountaineer ...
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... gallant merchant ship , full sail to Plymouth bay ; The crew had seen Castile's black fleet , beyond Aurigny's isle , At earliest twilight , on the waves , lie heaving many a mile . At sunrise she escaped their van , by God's especial ...
... gallant merchant ship , full sail to Plymouth bay ; The crew had seen Castile's black fleet , beyond Aurigny's isle , At earliest twilight , on the waves , lie heaving many a mile . At sunrise she escaped their van , by God's especial ...
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... gallant squires of Kent ; Southward , for Surrey's pleasant hills , flew those bright coursers forth ; High on black Hampstead's swarthy moor , they started for the north ; And on , and on , without a pause , untired they bounded still ...
... gallant squires of Kent ; Southward , for Surrey's pleasant hills , flew those bright coursers forth ; High on black Hampstead's swarthy moor , they started for the north ; And on , and on , without a pause , untired they bounded still ...
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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...