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 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 42
... dwell upon the tenderness , the solemn , awful tender- 25 ness , of the parting scene . -the bed of death , with all its stifled griefs , its noiseless attendance , its mute , watch- ful assiduities - the last testimonies of expiring ...
... dwell upon the tenderness , the solemn , awful tender- 25 ness , of the parting scene . -the bed of death , with all its stifled griefs , its noiseless attendance , its mute , watch- ful assiduities - the last testimonies of expiring ...
الصفحة 44
... kindling , cheering fire ; a 10 spirit resides in the mountain cliff ; a spirit makes its abode in the cool recesses of the grottos which nature • has adorned ; a god dwells in each " little 44 PROSE SELECTIONS . BANCROFT.
... kindling , cheering fire ; a 10 spirit resides in the mountain cliff ; a spirit makes its abode in the cool recesses of the grottos which nature • has adorned ; a god dwells in each " little 44 PROSE SELECTIONS . BANCROFT.
الصفحة 45
... dwells in each " little grass " that springs miraculously from the earth . " The woods , the wilds , and the waters , respond to savage intelligence ; 15 the stars and the mountains live ; the river , and the lake , and the waves have a ...
... dwells in each " little grass " that springs miraculously from the earth . " The woods , the wilds , and the waters , respond to savage intelligence ; 15 the stars and the mountains live ; the river , and the lake , and the waves have a ...
الصفحة 49
... scenery and pleasurable themes . But amidst the rude scenes of nature , amidst the rocks and torrents , and whirlwinds and battles , dwells the sublime . It 5 PROSE SELECTIONS . 49 Influence of Wordsworth upon Poetical Taste, BLAIR.
... scenery and pleasurable themes . But amidst the rude scenes of nature , amidst the rocks and torrents , and whirlwinds and battles , dwells the sublime . It 5 PROSE SELECTIONS . 49 Influence of Wordsworth upon Poetical Taste, BLAIR.
الصفحة 50
... dwells the sublime . It is the thunder and lightning of genius . It is the offspring 10 of nature , not of art . It is negligent of all the lesser graces , and perfectly consistent with a certain noble dis- order . It associates ...
... dwells the sublime . It is the thunder and lightning of genius . It is the offspring 10 of nature , not of art . It is negligent of all the lesser graces , and perfectly consistent with a certain noble dis- order . It associates ...
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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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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...