Readings from the Best AuthorsArchibald Hamilton Bryce T. Nelson, 1869 |
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... things , proverbially , more powerful than precept ; and this is especially true in training to a correct and tasteful style of reading . The voice of the teacher and the ear of the pupil are the two great instruments by means of which ...
... things , proverbially , more powerful than precept ; and this is especially true in training to a correct and tasteful style of reading . The voice of the teacher and the ear of the pupil are the two great instruments by means of which ...
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... thing only De Launay could have done - what he said he would do . Fancy him sitting , from the first , with lighted taper , within arm's length of the powder magazine ; motionless , like old Roman senator , or bronze lamp - holder ...
... thing only De Launay could have done - what he said he would do . Fancy him sitting , from the first , with lighted taper , within arm's length of the powder magazine ; motionless , like old Roman senator , or bronze lamp - holder ...
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... things . ...... Up Forest - Ullswater the youth had come by the light of the setting sun ; and as he crossed the mountains to Grass- mere by the majestic path of the Hawse , still as every new star arose in heaven , with it arose as ...
... things . ...... Up Forest - Ullswater the youth had come by the light of the setting sun ; and as he crossed the mountains to Grass- mere by the majestic path of the Hawse , still as every new star arose in heaven , with it arose as ...
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... thing , " added the landlord , " I would almost steal it for the poor gentleman , he is so ill . - I hope he will still mend , " continued he : " we are all of us concerned for him . " 66 66 Thou art a good - natured soul , I will ...
... thing , " added the landlord , " I would almost steal it for the poor gentleman , he is so ill . - I hope he will still mend , " continued he : " we are all of us concerned for him . " 66 66 Thou art a good - natured soul , I will ...
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... thing in it ; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands , that were covered with fruits and flowers , and interwoven with a thousand little shin- ing seas that ran among them . I could see persons ...
... thing in it ; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands , that were covered with fruits and flowers , and interwoven with a thousand little shin- ing seas that ran among them . I could see persons ...
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Página 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Página 287 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Página 282 - It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Página 302 - Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ? Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, And bade him follow : so, indeed, he did. The torrent roared ; and we did buffet it With lusty sinews ; throwing it aside, And stemming it with hearts of controversy. But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, Help me, Cassius, or I sink.
Página 301 - I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Página 132 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.
Página 243 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 207 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Página 128 - Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Página 88 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.