College Readings in English ProseFrank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin Macmillan, 1914 - 653 من الصفحات |
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... scene with accustomed satisfaction . You are at home . BREEDING BROWN PELICANS1 C. WILLIAM BEEBE It is a great compliment to the conditions under which birds in captivity are kept when such a large and wary species as the brown pelican ...
... scene with accustomed satisfaction . You are at home . BREEDING BROWN PELICANS1 C. WILLIAM BEEBE It is a great compliment to the conditions under which birds in captivity are kept when such a large and wary species as the brown pelican ...
الصفحة 183
... scenes at distance hail , " and see no end to prospect after prospect , new objects presenting themselves as we advance , so in the outset of life we see no end to our desires nor to the opportunities of gratifying them . We have as yet ...
... scenes at distance hail , " and see no end to prospect after prospect , new objects presenting themselves as we advance , so in the outset of life we see no end to our desires nor to the opportunities of gratifying them . We have as yet ...
الصفحة 186
... scene that is opened to us , and we unconsciously transfer its durability as well as its splendor to and enhance our possession and our enjoyment of life . Others may fall around us like leaves , or be mowed down like flowers by the ...
... scene that is opened to us , and we unconsciously transfer its durability as well as its splendor to and enhance our possession and our enjoyment of life . Others may fall around us like leaves , or be mowed down like flowers by the ...
الصفحة 187
... scene is ended and the lights are ready to be extinguished . But the fair face of things still shines on ; shall we be called away before the cur- tain falls , or ere we have scarce had a glimpse of what is going on ? Like children ...
... scene is ended and the lights are ready to be extinguished . But the fair face of things still shines on ; shall we be called away before the cur- tain falls , or ere we have scarce had a glimpse of what is going on ? Like children ...
الصفحة 188
... scene ; to witness the change of season , of spring and autumn , of winter and summer ; to feel hot and cold , pleasure and pain , [ beauty and deformity , ] right and wrong ; [ to be sensible to the accidents of nature ; to consider ...
... scene ; to witness the change of season , of spring and autumn , of winter and summer ; to feel hot and cold , pleasure and pain , [ beauty and deformity , ] right and wrong ; [ to be sensible to the accidents of nature ; to consider ...
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الصفحة 192 - On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th...
الصفحة 548 - Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
الصفحة 544 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
الصفحة 209 - ... that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families...
الصفحة 237 - The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts, then springs as broke from bonds, And rampant shakes his brinded mane...
الصفحة 568 - Theirs be the music, the colour, the glory, the gold ; Mine be a handful of ashes, a mouthful of mould. Of the maimed, of the halt and the blind in the rain and the cold — Of these shall my songs be fashioned, my tales be told.
الصفحة 131 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
الصفحة 387 - ... a confusion of delight, amidst which the breasts of the Greek horses are seen blazing in their breadth of golden strength, and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstasy, the crests of the arches break into a marble foam, and toss themselves far into the blue sky in flashes and wreaths of sculptured spray, as if the breakers on the Lido shore had been frost-bound before they fell, and the seanymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst.
الصفحة 215 - ... amidst the lightning of the sea, its thin masts written upon the sky in lines of blood, girded with condemnation in that fearful hue which signs the sky with horror and mixes its flaming flood with the sunlight, and, cast far along the desolate heave of the sepulchral waves, incarnadines the multitudinous sea.
الصفحة 6 - Active, persistent, and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the grounds that support it and the further conclusions to which it tends constitutes reflective thought.