Class Book of Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Selections from the Best English and American Authors : Designed as Exercises in Passing : for the Use of Common Schools and Academies |
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... star - like spirit shot athwart the darkness of the sphere , too soon to re- 40 ascend to the home of its nativity . EXERCISE V. The Religious Faith of the Red Man . - BANCROFT . The red man , unaccustomed to generalization , ob- tained ...
... star - like spirit shot athwart the darkness of the sphere , too soon to re- 40 ascend to the home of its nativity . EXERCISE V. The Religious Faith of the Red Man . - BANCROFT . The red man , unaccustomed to generalization , ob- tained ...
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... stars and the mountains live ; the river , and the lake , and the waves have a spirit . " Every hidden agency , every mysterious influence , is personified . A god dwells in the sun , and in the moon , and in the firmament ; the spirit ...
... stars and the mountains live ; the river , and the lake , and the waves have a spirit . " Every hidden agency , every mysterious influence , is personified . A god dwells in the sun , and in the moon , and in the firmament ; the spirit ...
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... star of evening , and see 55 it transform into a cloud - encompassed orb , a world of rugged mountains and stormy deeps ; or behold the pale beams of Saturn , lost to the untaught observer amidst myriads of brighter stars , and see them ...
... star of evening , and see 55 it transform into a cloud - encompassed orb , a world of rugged mountains and stormy deeps ; or behold the pale beams of Saturn , lost to the untaught observer amidst myriads of brighter stars , and see them ...
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... star . 3. The waves along thy pebbly shore , As blows the north wind , heave their foam , And curl around the dashing oar , As late the boatman hies him home . 4. How sweet , at set of sun , to view The golden mirror spreading wide ...
... star . 3. The waves along thy pebbly shore , As blows the north wind , heave their foam , And curl around the dashing oar , As late the boatman hies him home . 4. How sweet , at set of sun , to view The golden mirror spreading wide ...
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... stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered , The weary to sleep , and the wounded to die . 2. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw , By the wolf - scaring fagot that guarded the slain ...
... stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered , The weary to sleep , and the wounded to die . 2. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw , By the wolf - scaring fagot that guarded the slain ...
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Page 92 - Cameron's gathering" rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Page 22 - 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.
Page 92 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed. The mustering squadron, and the clattering car. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 91 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
Page 115 - 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.
Page 91 - Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear. And when they smiled because he deemed it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretched his father on a bloody bier, And roused the vengeance blood alone could quell: He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell.
Page 115 - 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...
Page 22 - ... 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.
Page 116 - 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.
Page 48 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.