The Fifth Reader of the School and Family SeriesHarper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York., 1863 - 527 pages |
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... turn on the stage of this world , he is to sink into oblivion , and to lose his conscious- ness forever ' ? 1 How can he exalt his thoughts to any thing great and noble who only believes that , aft- er a short turn on the stage of this ...
... turn on the stage of this world , he is to sink into oblivion , and to lose his conscious- ness forever ' ? 1 How can he exalt his thoughts to any thing great and noble who only believes that , aft- er a short turn on the stage of this ...
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... turn with disgust from the contemplation of these creatures , the philosophic observer , who knows that every thing which has proceeded from the hand of Omnipotence is , in its kind , good and perfect , will pa- tiently investigate ...
... turn with disgust from the contemplation of these creatures , the philosophic observer , who knows that every thing which has proceeded from the hand of Omnipotence is , in its kind , good and perfect , will pa- tiently investigate ...
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... turns from the reptile with disgust and horror , or seeks to effect its instant destruction . 4 6 4. But , strange as it may appear , while in every country , ancient and modern , serpents have been viewed with aversion , no other class ...
... turns from the reptile with disgust and horror , or seeks to effect its instant destruction . 4 6 4. But , strange as it may appear , while in every country , ancient and modern , serpents have been viewed with aversion , no other class ...
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... turn awry ' , And lose the name of action . - SHAKSPEARE . LESSON V. THE FOLLY OF CASTLE - BUILDING . 1. ALNAS CHAR , says the fable , was a very idle fellow , who never would set his hand to any business during his father's life ...
... turn awry ' , And lose the name of action . - SHAKSPEARE . LESSON V. THE FOLLY OF CASTLE - BUILDING . 1. ALNAS CHAR , says the fable , was a very idle fellow , who never would set his hand to any business during his father's life ...
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... turn my back upon her . Her mother will then come and bring her daughter to me , as I am seated upon my sofa . The daughter , with tears in her eyes , will fling herself at my feet , and beg of me to receive her into my favor . Then ...
... turn my back upon her . Her mother will then come and bring her daughter to me , as I am seated upon my sofa . The daughter , with tears in her eyes , will fling herself at my feet , and beg of me to receive her into my favor . Then ...
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Page 82 - You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not.
Page 490 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, " Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore !" Quoth the Raven,
Page 314 - Earth and her waters, and the depths of air Comes a still voice 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 534 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know.
Page 42 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they? With the years beyond the Flood.
Page 533 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Page 491 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore: Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never nevermore.
Page 531 - It must be so Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Page 491 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, . And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted nevermore...
Page 489 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "T is some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door Only this and nothing more.