The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with Biographical and Critical Notices of the Authors : for the Use of Advanced Classes in Public and Private SchoolsBrewer and Tileston, 1866 - 436 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xxv
... fair to look upon . She seemed a creature FRESH from the hand of GoD , and waiting for the breath of life ; not one who HAD lived and suffered DEATH . Her couch was dressed with here and there some winter - ber- ries and green leaves ...
... fair to look upon . She seemed a creature FRESH from the hand of GoD , and waiting for the breath of life ; not one who HAD lived and suffered DEATH . Her couch was dressed with here and there some winter - ber- ries and green leaves ...
الصفحة xxvi
... fair cheeks , - a smile Parting his innocent lips . In one short hour , The pretty , harmless boy was slain ! " 4. " There is a calm for those who weep , A rest for weary pilgrims found ; They softly lie and sweetly sleep , Low in the ...
... fair cheeks , - a smile Parting his innocent lips . In one short hour , The pretty , harmless boy was slain ! " 4. " There is a calm for those who weep , A rest for weary pilgrims found ; They softly lie and sweetly sleep , Low in the ...
الصفحة xxxiii
... fair ! ||| That death || should settle | in thy glorious eye , ||| And leave his || stillness ||| in thy clustering hair ! ||| How could he || mark thee |||| for the silent tomb , ||| My proud boy , | Absalom ! " || SLIDES . In ...
... fair ! ||| That death || should settle | in thy glorious eye , ||| And leave his || stillness ||| in thy clustering hair ! ||| How could he || mark thee |||| for the silent tomb , ||| My proud boy , | Absalom ! " || SLIDES . In ...
الصفحة xlvi
... fair women and brave men . A thousand hearts beat happily , and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell , Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again , And all went merry as a marriage - bell . " " Grave ' example for lower pitch ...
... fair women and brave men . A thousand hearts beat happily , and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell , Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again , And all went merry as a marriage - bell . " " Grave ' example for lower pitch ...
الصفحة lii
... fair ! Thyself how wondrous , then ! " " Example for noble ' but happy median stress . " The Lord is my shepherd ; I shall not want . " He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : He leadeth me beside the still waters . He restoreth my ...
... fair ! Thyself how wondrous , then ! " " Example for noble ' but happy median stress . " The Lord is my shepherd ; I shall not want . " He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : He leadeth me beside the still waters . He restoreth my ...
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الصفحة lxv - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
الصفحة lxiv - What thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
الصفحة 364 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld thou rollest now.
الصفحة 406 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
الصفحة 418 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
الصفحة 229 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
الصفحة 418 - Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, Quite vanquished him. Then burst his mighty heart, And in his mantle muffling up his face, Even at the base of Pompey's statue, (Which all the while ran blood), great Caesar fell.
الصفحة 286 - Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more...
الصفحة 406 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care, No children run to lisp their sire's return Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
الصفحة 231 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...