The School Reader: Fifth Book : Designed as a Sequel to Sanders' Fourth Reader : Part First, Containing Full Instructions in the Rhetorical Principles of Reading and Speaking ... Parts Second and Third, Consisting of Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry ... : for the Use of Academies and the Higher Classes in Common and Select Schools |
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... proud you look ! How high you lift your heads into the sky ; How huge you are ! how mighty and how free ! Knowles . " HOLD ! " Tyranny cries ; but their resolute breath Sends back the reply , " INDEPENDENCE or DEATH ! ” QUESTIONS ...
... proud you look ! How high you lift your heads into the sky ; How huge you are ! how mighty and how free ! Knowles . " HOLD ! " Tyranny cries ; but their resolute breath Sends back the reply , " INDEPENDENCE or DEATH ! ” QUESTIONS ...
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... Proud Reason's light would shine ! Invention might her power apply , And Genius see the forms of heaven , - And firm Resolve his strength might try ; But vain the Will , the Soul , the Eye , Unquarried would the marble lie , The oak and ...
... Proud Reason's light would shine ! Invention might her power apply , And Genius see the forms of heaven , - And firm Resolve his strength might try ; But vain the Will , the Soul , the Eye , Unquarried would the marble lie , The oak and ...
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... proud recompense . We give in charge Their names to the sweet lyre . The historic Muse , Proud of her treasure , marches with it down To latest times ; and Sculpture , in her turn , Gives bond in stone and ever - during brass , To guard ...
... proud recompense . We give in charge Their names to the sweet lyre . The historic Muse , Proud of her treasure , marches with it down To latest times ; and Sculpture , in her turn , Gives bond in stone and ever - during brass , To guard ...
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... Proud of the strong contention of her toils ; Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To Heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view , Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame ? Who that , from Alpine hights , his laboring eye Shoots ...
... Proud of the strong contention of her toils ; Proud to be daring ? Who but rather turns To Heaven's broad fire his unconstrained view , Than to the glimmering of a waxen flame ? Who that , from Alpine hights , his laboring eye Shoots ...
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... proud , like a boy at his play , He bore the new prize to his dwelling away ; He gazed for a while on its beauties , and then He cut it , and shaped it , and called it -- a PEN . 2. But its magical use he discovered not yet , Till he ...
... proud , like a boy at his play , He bore the new prize to his dwelling away ; He gazed for a while on its beauties , and then He cut it , and shaped it , and called it -- a PEN . 2. But its magical use he discovered not yet , Till he ...
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Page 132 - 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 201 - One song employs all nations; and all cry, * Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !* The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain-tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Page 152 - Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
Page 189 - Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Page 350 - My panting side was charged when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.^ There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by the archers. In his side he bore And in his hands and feet the cruel scars. With gentle force soliciting the darts He drew them forth, and healed and bade me live.
Page 236 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 416 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 131 - I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole. country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad.
Page 152 - But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, "It is not in me:" and the sea saith,
Page 189 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!