The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with Biographical and Critical Notices of the Authors : for the Use of Advanced Classes in Public and Private SchoolsBrewer and Tileston, 1866 - 436 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα xxxi
... o'er the mountains || with light | and song ! || Ye may trace my step | o'er the wakening | earth , || By the winds || which tell | of the violet's || birth , | 1 By the primrose stars || in the shadowy grass , || By the green leaves ...
... o'er the mountains || with light | and song ! || Ye may trace my step | o'er the wakening | earth , || By the winds || which tell | of the violet's || birth , | 1 By the primrose stars || in the shadowy grass , || By the green leaves ...
Σελίδα xlii
... o'er which a Dàne can triumph ! " True courage but from opposition gròws ; And what are fifty what a thousand slâves , Matched to the virtue of a single arm That strikes for liberty ? that strikes to save His fields from fìre , his ...
... o'er which a Dàne can triumph ! " True courage but from opposition gròws ; And what are fifty what a thousand slâves , Matched to the virtue of a single arm That strikes for liberty ? that strikes to save His fields from fìre , his ...
Σελίδα xlvi
... o'er fair women and brave men . A thousand hearts beat happily , and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell , Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again , And all went merry as a marriage - bell . " " Grave ' example for lower ...
... o'er fair women and brave men . A thousand hearts beat happily , and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell , Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again , And all went merry as a marriage - bell . " " Grave ' example for lower ...
Σελίδα l
... o'er his mind . " He dreamed of his hòme , of his dear nàtive bowers , And pleasures that waited on life's merry mòrn ; While memory each scene gayly covered with flowers , And restòred every róse , but secréted its thòrn . " In the ...
... o'er his mind . " He dreamed of his hòme , of his dear nàtive bowers , And pleasures that waited on life's merry mòrn ; While memory each scene gayly covered with flowers , And restòred every róse , but secréted its thòrn . " In the ...
Σελίδα lvi
... , tenderness , rapture , or fer- 1. " The heart of the sleeper beats high in his breast ; Joy quickens his pulses , his hardships seem o'er , - And a murmur of happiness steals through his rest , lvi INTRODUCTORY TREATISE .
... , tenderness , rapture , or fer- 1. " The heart of the sleeper beats high in his breast ; Joy quickens his pulses , his hardships seem o'er , - And a murmur of happiness steals through his rest , lvi INTRODUCTORY TREATISE .
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Σελίδα lxv - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
Σελίδα lxiv - What thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Σελίδα 364 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld thou rollest now.
Σελίδα 406 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
Σελίδα 418 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Σελίδα 229 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Σελίδα 418 - Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, Quite vanquished him. Then burst his mighty heart, And in his mantle muffling up his face, Even at the base of Pompey's statue, (Which all the while ran blood), great Caesar fell.
Σελίδα 286 - Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more...
Σελίδα 406 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care, No children run to lisp their sire's return Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Σελίδα 231 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...