The Revised Lesson Book for Standard I(-vi) of the Revised Code of the Committee of Council on EducationSimpkin Marshall, 1864 - Education |
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... Look up on high , and thank thy God for all ! " THE HILL OF SCIENCE . In that season of the 8 Chaucer Spenser Herbert Shakspere Milton Marvel Dryden Bishop Addison Watts Young Pope Thomson Akenside Goldsmith Согорет Thrale To my Soul ...
... Look up on high , and thank thy God for all ! " THE HILL OF SCIENCE . In that season of the 8 Chaucer Spenser Herbert Shakspere Milton Marvel Dryden Bishop Addison Watts Young Pope Thomson Akenside Goldsmith Согорет Thrale To my Soul ...
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... look in thy chest , for ' tis thy own ; And tumble up and down what thou find'st there . Who cannot rest till he good fellows find , He breaks up house , turns out of doors his mind . By no means run in debt . Take thine own measure ...
... look in thy chest , for ' tis thy own ; And tumble up and down what thou find'st there . Who cannot rest till he good fellows find , He breaks up house , turns out of doors his mind . By no means run in debt . Take thine own measure ...
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... looks had almost prepossessed me in your favour . " " Alas sir , did you know my situation , you would not blame me . " " Well ; perhaps I am mistaken . Let us take our little cruise ; and acquaint me with your history . " The stranger ...
... looks had almost prepossessed me in your favour . " " Alas sir , did you know my situation , you would not blame me . " " Well ; perhaps I am mistaken . Let us take our little cruise ; and acquaint me with your history . " The stranger ...
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... look no more , Lest my brain turn , and the deficient sight Topple down headlong . INGRATITUDE . BLOW , blow , thou winter wind , Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen , Because thou art not seen ...
... look no more , Lest my brain turn , and the deficient sight Topple down headlong . INGRATITUDE . BLOW , blow , thou winter wind , Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen , Because thou art not seen ...
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... look through ? " " For all that , " resumed the pendulum , " it is very dark here ; and , although there is a window , I dare not stop , even for an instant , to look out at it . Be- sides , I am really tired of my way of life ; and if ...
... look through ? " " For all that , " resumed the pendulum , " it is very dark here ; and , although there is a window , I dare not stop , even for an instant , to look out at it . Be- sides , I am really tired of my way of life ; and if ...
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accent ANDREW MARVEL BATTLE OF BLENHEIM beauty beneath birds bone BORN breath called cheerful clouds cried dark death delight DIED divine doth dread earth eternal eyes faint falling father fear fire Gil Blas give grave hand happiness head hear heart heaven hill honour horse humour HYMN Indians inflection JAMES THOMSON JOHN MILTON JOSEPH ADDISON labour land light living look Lord mercy mind morning mountain nature never night o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH pain pause peace pendulum pleasure Poor Richard says POOR RICHARD'S MAXIMS praise prayer Principal Works.-The reason religion replied rest revenge ROBERT SOUTHEY rope round SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE shade silent sleep song soul South Stack spirit stranger sweet thee thine things THOMAS GRAY thou hast thought THRALE tion tree truth turn vale virtue voice wandering WILLIAM COWPER William Penn winds wings words young
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Page 86 - Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 149 - THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior!
Page 21 - It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Page 77 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 36 - 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 55 - How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep; forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Page 121 - Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain— Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon?
Page 27 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our Great Maker still new praise. Ye Mists and Exhalations that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's Great Author rise...
Page 27 - Join voices all ye living Souls: Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep; Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill, or valley, fountain or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light dispels...
Page 131 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.