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... rules of action . Those for more advanced youths consist principally of brief extracts containing grand and ennobling thoughts , calculated to inspire them with higher aspirations of life , to lead them into pure fields of English ...
... rules of action . Those for more advanced youths consist principally of brief extracts containing grand and ennobling thoughts , calculated to inspire them with higher aspirations of life , to lead them into pure fields of English ...
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... rule , Never to be late at school . " If I tarry here too long , I shall miss the morning song : Give me , please , my book and slate ; Haste I'll make , and not be late . Day by day I'll spell and read , And my teacher try to heed ...
... rule , Never to be late at school . " If I tarry here too long , I shall miss the morning song : Give me , please , my book and slate ; Haste I'll make , and not be late . Day by day I'll spell and read , And my teacher try to heed ...
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... rule , as many can tell : Moments are useless , trifled away ; So work while you work , and play while you play . -Miss M. A. Stodart . VII . Do all the good you can , In all the ways you can , To all the people you can , Just as long ...
... rule , as many can tell : Moments are useless , trifled away ; So work while you work , and play while you play . -Miss M. A. Stodart . VII . Do all the good you can , In all the ways you can , To all the people you can , Just as long ...
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... rule . Still do your best , if but at taw You join the merry ring ; Or if you play at battledoor , Or if you skip or sing . Or if you write your copy - book , Or if you read or spell , Or if you seam , or hem , or knit , Be sure and do ...
... rule . Still do your best , if but at taw You join the merry ring ; Or if you play at battledoor , Or if you skip or sing . Or if you write your copy - book , Or if you read or spell , Or if you seam , or hem , or knit , Be sure and do ...
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... rule by love than fear ; Speak gently ! let no harsh words mar The good we might do here . Speak gently ! ' t is a little thing Dropped in the heart's deep well ; The good , the joy , which it may bring , Eternity shall tell . -G . W ...
... rule by love than fear ; Speak gently ! let no harsh words mar The good we might do here . Speak gently ! ' t is a little thing Dropped in the heart's deep well ; The good , the joy , which it may bring , Eternity shall tell . -G . W ...
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Alice Cary baby beauty better birdie blessings blossoms blue brave bright brown thrush Cary Charles Kingsley cheerful child Cincinnati Public Schools Dare dear deeds dreams earth eternal eyes fear flower friends gentle girl give gold GRADED SELECTIONS Gray hands happy hath hear heart heaven hope hour humble Isaac Watts J. G. Holland J. R. Lowell kind Kitty land life's light little birds live Longfellow look merry mind mother never night noble o'er ocean Oliver Wendell Holmes patter Philip James Bailey play Ralph Waldo Emerson rest rock SELECTIONS FOR MEMORIZING Shakespeare shine sing smile song soul speak stars sunbeams sweet tears tell thee There's thine things Thomas Buchanan Read Thomas Moore thou hast thoughts to-day tree true truth union virtue Waiting the Judgment-day Whittier William Wordsworth word youth
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Page 125 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 80 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong.
Page 188 - Liberty first, and Union afterwards, — but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — Liberty and Union, now. and forever, one and inseparable.
Page 24 - What does little birdie say In her nest at peep of day ? Let me fly, says little birdie, Mother, let me fly away. Birdie, rest a little longer, Till the little wings are stronger. So she rests a little longer, Then she flies away. What does little baby say, In her bed at peep of day ? Baby says, like little birdie, Let me rise and fly away.
Page 173 - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire...
Page 148 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 141 - Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
Page 128 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which 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 to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 156 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Page 175 - What constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...