Town's Fourth Reader: Containing a Selection of Lessons, Exclusively from American Authors ...Derby, 1845 - 288 pages |
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... face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them . RULE 2. The monotone requires a deliberate , grave and dignified emphasis . EXAMPLES . And I saw the dead , small and great , stand before God ; and the ...
... face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them . RULE 2. The monotone requires a deliberate , grave and dignified emphasis . EXAMPLES . And I saw the dead , small and great , stand before God ; and the ...
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... face a world in arms , - To strip the pomp from sceptres , -and to lay Upon the sacred alter the warm blood Of slain affections , when they rise between The soul and God.- And can ye deem it strange That from their planting such a ...
... face a world in arms , - To strip the pomp from sceptres , -and to lay Upon the sacred alter the warm blood Of slain affections , when they rise between The soul and God.- And can ye deem it strange That from their planting such a ...
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... face seems like tears shed over the hero who once wore it . When the mind is full of thoughts suggested by these relics of antiquity , and the heart full of emotions ; when the images of great men who have long flitted 36 TOWN'S.
... face seems like tears shed over the hero who once wore it . When the mind is full of thoughts suggested by these relics of antiquity , and the heart full of emotions ; when the images of great men who have long flitted 36 TOWN'S.
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... face of the country . A great part of the island is rather level , and would be monotonous , were it not for the charms of culture ; but it is studded and gemmed , as it were , with castles and palaces , and embroidered with parks and ...
... face of the country . A great part of the island is rather level , and would be monotonous , were it not for the charms of culture ; but it is studded and gemmed , as it were , with castles and palaces , and embroidered with parks and ...
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... face , all of limestone . The visitor cannot give so good a description of the bridge , as he can of his feelings at the time . He softly creeps out on a shaggy pro- jecting rock , and looking down a chasm from forty to sixty feet wide ...
... face , all of limestone . The visitor cannot give so good a description of the bridge , as he can of his feelings at the time . He softly creeps out on a shaggy pro- jecting rock , and looking down a chasm from forty to sixty feet wide ...
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Page 213 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 215 - Shall one by one be gathered to thy side By those who in their turn shall follow them.
Page 16 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! 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 241 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry, for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the house. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received?
Page 15 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these...
Page 235 - He thinks the whole world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes, and almost hears its workings in the very silence of his thoughts. It has become his master. It betrays his discretion, it breaks down his courage, it conquers his prudence. When suspicions from without begin to embarrass him, and the net of circumstance to entangle him, the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth.
Page 228 - True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it; but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way ; but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, .and in the occasion.
Page 250 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence, — a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task ; which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union, and the patronage of heaven.
Page 215 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 48 - English scenery is the moral feeling that seems to pervade it. It is associated in the mind with ideas of order, of quiet, of sober well-established principles, of hoary usage and reverend custom.