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 Schools |
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... honor of having their names brought before the eye , and their strains of eloquence or poetry poured upon the ear , and made familiar to the mind of the rising gen- eration . But such authors - among whom are my personal friends , men ...
... honor of having their names brought before the eye , and their strains of eloquence or poetry poured upon the ear , and made familiar to the mind of the rising gen- eration . But such authors - among whom are my personal friends , men ...
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... honor upon their parents . When I have been compelled to amputate , I have conscientir asly endeavored to retrench only " those members of the body which seemed to be more feeble , " that upon the others might be bestowed the " more ...
... honor upon their parents . When I have been compelled to amputate , I have conscientir asly endeavored to retrench only " those members of the body which seemed to be more feeble , " that upon the others might be bestowed the " more ...
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... honors of the grove are fallen ; and the hearth * of the cottager is cold ; but it rises from villages burned with fire , and from warm ruins , spread over the now naked plain . 1 The ear is filled with the confused bellowing of oxen ...
... honors of the grove are fallen ; and the hearth * of the cottager is cold ; but it rises from villages burned with fire , and from warm ruins , spread over the now naked plain . 1 The ear is filled with the confused bellowing of oxen ...
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... honor , justice , and friendship . Diony . Guards ! take Pythias away to execution : we shall see whether Damon will continue to despise my power . Damon . Pythias , by returning to submit himself to thy pleasure has merited his life at ...
... honor , justice , and friendship . Diony . Guards ! take Pythias away to execution : we shall see whether Damon will continue to despise my power . Damon . Pythias , by returning to submit himself to thy pleasure has merited his life at ...
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... honor them for presenting to heroes so noble a recreation , as may pre- vent their taking up the distaff , when they lay down the club . Hercules . Wits as well as heroes can take up the distaff . What think you of their thin - spun ...
... honor them for presenting to heroes so noble a recreation , as may pre- vent their taking up the distaff , when they lay down the club . Hercules . Wits as well as heroes can take up the distaff . What think you of their thin - spun ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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,
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...