An English School Grammar: With Very Copious Exercises and a Systematic View of the Formation and Derivation of Words : Comprising Anglo-Saxon, Latin, & Greek Lists, which Explain the Etymology of Above Seven Thousand English Words

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Simpkin, Marshall, & Company, 1851 - English language - 162 pages
 

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Page 25 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these...
Page 55 - She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread...
Page 47 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 141 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends , — do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 55 - To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain.
Page 128 - And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Page 126 - O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar, thy father, a kingdom and majesty and glory and honour; and for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations and languages trembled and feared before him; whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive, and whom he would he set up, and whom he would he put down.
Page 128 - The just, the good, the worthless, the profane ; The downright clown, and perfectly well-bred; The fool, the churl, the scoundrel, and the mean ; The supple statesman, and the patriot stern; The wrecks of nations, and the spoils of time, With all the lumber of six thousand years.
Page 126 - Who lives to nature, rarely can be poor ; Who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
Page 147 - BP. MANT. PRAYER. RE the morning's busy ray Call you to your work away ; Ere the silent evening close Your wearied eyes in sweet repose, To lift your heart and voice in prayer Be your first and latest care.

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