The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation: Selected Principally from Modern Authors of Great Britain and America, and Designed for the Use of the Highest Class in Public and Private SchoolsGeorge F. Cooledge, 1835 - 480 páginas |
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... once or twice , to any particular word . When the pro- nunciation of an English word is given , it is that of Walker . In orthography , the same standard has been followed , with perhaps one or two deviations upon the authority of ...
... once or twice , to any particular word . When the pro- nunciation of an English word is given , it is that of Walker . In orthography , the same standard has been followed , with perhaps one or two deviations upon the authority of ...
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... once it had passed the press , ejected it from his mind ; for , when he had no pe- cuniary interest he had no further solicitude . Pope was not content to satisfy ; he desired to excel , and therefore always endeavored to do his best ...
... once it had passed the press , ejected it from his mind ; for , when he had no pe- cuniary interest he had no further solicitude . Pope was not content to satisfy ; he desired to excel , and therefore always endeavored to do his best ...
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... once held our fathers , the serpent hisses , and the wild bird screams . The halls , which once were crowd- ed with all that taste , and science , and labor could pro- cure , which resounded with melody , and were lighted up with beauty ...
... once held our fathers , the serpent hisses , and the wild bird screams . The halls , which once were crowd- ed with all that taste , and science , and labor could pro- cure , which resounded with melody , and were lighted up with beauty ...
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... once we lived . But the same unal- terable Being will still preside over the universe , through all its changes , and from his remembrance we shall never be blotted . We can never be where he is not , nor where he sees and loves and ...
... once we lived . But the same unal- terable Being will still preside over the universe , through all its changes , and from his remembrance we shall never be blotted . We can never be where he is not , nor where he sees and loves and ...
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... once into the bustle and novelties of another world . I have said that at sea all is vacancy . I should correct the expression . To one given up to day - dreaming , and fond of losing himself in reveries , a sea voyage is full of ...
... once into the bustle and novelties of another world . I have said that at sea all is vacancy . I should correct the expression . To one given up to day - dreaming , and fond of losing himself in reveries , a sea voyage is full of ...
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Página 256 - Take the wings Of morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings, — yet the dead are there: And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep, — the dead reign there alone.
Página 255 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart — Go forth, under the open sky, and list To nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice...
Página 252 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Página 452 - ... tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly; And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him, and write his speeches in their books, Alas ! it cried, " Give me some drink, Titinius,
Página 455 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! In this place ran Cassius...
Página 469 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Página 353 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues.
Página 456 - I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Página 374 - And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living and when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would . . . fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat; and no man gave unto...
Página 352 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill; Together both, ere the high lawns appeared Under the opening eyelids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn...