Class Book of Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Selection from the Best English and American Authors, Designed as Exercises in Parsing, for the Use of Common Schools and Academies, by Truman Rickard and Hiram OrcuttR.S. Davis & Company, 1863 - 139 páginas |
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Página 31
... clouds must part from the bent bow and the strained arm . It would be delightful to live in perfect trust , to doubt no one , and to believe all . Providence never intended that any state here should be either completely happy or ...
... clouds must part from the bent bow and the strained arm . It would be delightful to live in perfect trust , to doubt no one , and to believe all . Providence never intended that any state here should be either completely happy or ...
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... clouds , and laughest at the storm . But to Ossian thou lookest in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more , whether thy yellow hair flow on the eastern clouds , or thou tremblest at the gates of the west . But thou art , perhaps , like ...
... clouds , and laughest at the storm . But to Ossian thou lookest in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more , whether thy yellow hair flow on the eastern clouds , or thou tremblest at the gates of the west . But thou art , perhaps , like ...
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... clouds , the day vanished from before him , and a sudden 60 tempest gathered round his head . He was now roused by his danger to a quick and painful remembrance of his folly ; he now saw how happiness is lost when ease is consulted ; he ...
... clouds , the day vanished from before him , and a sudden 60 tempest gathered round his head . He was now roused by his danger to a quick and painful remembrance of his folly ; he now saw how happiness is lost when ease is consulted ; he ...
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... clouds , which resembled the summits of lofty , snow - covered mountains . These clouds , folding or ex- panding their veils , rolled themselves out into transpa- rent zones of white satin , dispersed into light flakes of 15 foam , or ...
... clouds , which resembled the summits of lofty , snow - covered mountains . These clouds , folding or ex- panding their veils , rolled themselves out into transpa- rent zones of white satin , dispersed into light flakes of 15 foam , or ...
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... cloud even over the bright hour of gayety , or spread a deeper sad- ness over the hour of gloom ; yet who would exchange it even for the song of pleasure , or the burst of revelry ? No , there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song ...
... cloud even over the bright hour of gayety , or spread a deeper sad- ness over the hour of gloom ; yet who would exchange it even for the song of pleasure , or the burst of revelry ? No , there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adjective of quality adverb Attica beauty behold bliss breath bright clouds common noun compound conjunction containing the grammatical containing the simple contemn copula cottage dark declarative deep definite article delightful denotes dependent clause direct object distinct earth eternal EXERCISE exponent exponential adjunct expressing the relation fall finite verb flowers gentle glory grammatical subject grave happy heart heaven hills human imperfect tense indicative mood infinite intellective interrogative light living logical and grammatical logical predicate logical subject masculine gender mighty mind modified word morning mountains nature neuter gender night nude adjunct o'er Obidah offices and relations Participle past plural number positive sentence Poss preposition pronoun repose rest river RULE simple grammatical predicate singular number song soul sound spirit stars sublime subordinate clause substantive sweet Syntax thee things third person thou art thought throne transitive verb virtue voice waves winds
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Página 47 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 46 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Página 139 - Yet a few days and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Página 140 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Página 139 - 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...
Página 46 - ... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Página 140 - 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 117 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms - the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Página 139 - 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.
Página 141 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged...