Selections from modern authors, for the use of schools, by mrs. Gething1838 - 80 pages |
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Gething. gratification in the prospect of hearing a few thou- sand tongues wagging with the sounds of my praise . Why should I care for regulating the affairs of an empire ? What is it , but providing for a more numerous family ? —and ...
Gething. gratification in the prospect of hearing a few thou- sand tongues wagging with the sounds of my praise . Why should I care for regulating the affairs of an empire ? What is it , but providing for a more numerous family ? —and ...
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... Thou Lord of Light , Thou God supreme , Once more we seek on bended knee , At morning's first returning beam , To breathe our hymns of praise to Thee . The flowers that late all hung as dead , Faint D 3 MODERN AUTHORS . 29 Morning Hymn ...
... Thou Lord of Light , Thou God supreme , Once more we seek on bended knee , At morning's first returning beam , To breathe our hymns of praise to Thee . The flowers that late all hung as dead , Faint D 3 MODERN AUTHORS . 29 Morning Hymn ...
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... thou , mysterious guest of night , Dread trav❜ller of immensity ! Stranger of heav'n , I bid thee hail ! Shred from the pall of glory riven , That flashest in celestial gale ; Broad Pennon of the King of Heaven ! Art thou the flag of ...
... thou , mysterious guest of night , Dread trav❜ller of immensity ! Stranger of heav'n , I bid thee hail ! Shred from the pall of glory riven , That flashest in celestial gale ; Broad Pennon of the King of Heaven ! Art thou the flag of ...
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... thou roamed these thousand years ? Why sought these polar paths again ? From wilderness of glowing spheres , To fling thy vesture o'er the wain ? And when thou climb'st the milky way , And vanishest from human view , A thousand worlds ...
... thou roamed these thousand years ? Why sought these polar paths again ? From wilderness of glowing spheres , To fling thy vesture o'er the wain ? And when thou climb'st the milky way , And vanishest from human view , A thousand worlds ...
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... Thou hast lived - thou hast loved - now turn thee , and die . Sonnet to a Child . FLETCHER . A rosebud opening , pearled with morning dew , Through the young foliage glancing , light and free- A gentle fountain gushing joyously O'er the ...
... Thou hast lived - thou hast loved - now turn thee , and die . Sonnet to a Child . FLETCHER . A rosebud opening , pearled with morning dew , Through the young foliage glancing , light and free- A gentle fountain gushing joyously O'er the ...
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Page 336 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 45 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 337 - Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late; For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he...
Page 337 - I long wooed your daughter, my suit you denied;— Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide— And now I am come, with this lost love of mine, To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine. There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far, That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar.
Page 336 - He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone, He swam the Eske River where ford there was none; But, ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late: For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Page 242 - When the Lowlands shall meet thee in battle array ! For a field of the dead rushes red on my sight. And the clans of Culloden are scattered in fight : They rally, they bleed, for their kingdom and crown ; Woe, woe, to the riders that trample them down ! Proud Cumberland prances, insulting the slain, And their hoof-beaten bosoms are trod to the plain.
Page 98 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 337 - The bride kissed the goblet, the knight took it up ; He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup ; She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
Page 88 - Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked...
Page 186 - Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy ? are we stronger than he...