The American Comprehensive Reader: For the Use of Schools : Containing Exercises in Enunciation, and Numerous Selections in Poetry and ProseHickling, Swan and Brown, 1855 - 312 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 43 - him well; — for him, no minstrelraptures swell; high though his titles, proud his name, boundless his wealth, as wish can claim; despite those titles, power and pelf, the wretch concentred all in self, living, shall forfeit fair renown, and, doubly dying, shall go down to the vile dust from whence he sprung, unwept, unhonored and unsung!
Página 37 - Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sod with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning.
Página 50 - Reading maketh a full man ; conversation a ready man; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he converse little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning,
Página 285 - Messiah's name. Waft, waft, ye winds, His story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole! Till o'er our ransom'd nature, The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign ! HEBER.
Página 36 - An hour passed on — The Turk awoke — That bright dream was his last; He woke to hear his sentries shriek, " To arms! they come ! the Greek ! the Greek ! " He woke to die 'mid flame and smoke, And shout, and groan, and sabre-stroke, And death-shots falling thick and fast As lightnings from the mountain cloud; And heard, with voice
Página 27 - A broken and a contrite heart, 0 God, thou wilt not despise. In varying cadence, soft or strong, he swept the sounding chords along. The present scene, the future lot, his toils, his wants, were all forgot. Cold
Página 44 - hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and life ! thou Good supreme! 0 teach me what is good ! teach me — Thyself; save me from folly, vanity and vice; from every low pursuit; and feed my soul with knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, — sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss
Página 54 - by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; and, lo ! it was all grown over with thorns; nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.
Página 36 - trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band : " Strike, till the last armed foe expires ; Strike, for your altars and your fires ; Strike, for the green graves of your sires, — God, and your native land ! " The combat deepens ! — on, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich, all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry.
Página 283 - NATURE. THERE lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God. The beauties of the wilderness are His, That makes so gay the solitary place Where no eyes see them. And the fairer forms That cultivation glories in are His. He sets the bright procession on its way, And marshals