The Sixth ReaderCowperthwait & Company, 1872 - 408 pages |
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... HEART L. THE LOVE OF NATURE LII . THE TRUE USE OF WEALTH LIV . SUPPOSED SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS LVI . CROMWELL'S EXPULSION OF THE PARLIAMENT LVIII . MICHAEL ANGELO , ARTIST AND ARTISAN LX . RALEIGH'S FIRST INTERVIEW WITH THE QUEEN . ( Part ...
... HEART L. THE LOVE OF NATURE LII . THE TRUE USE OF WEALTH LIV . SUPPOSED SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS LVI . CROMWELL'S EXPULSION OF THE PARLIAMENT LVIII . MICHAEL ANGELO , ARTIST AND ARTISAN LX . RALEIGH'S FIRST INTERVIEW WITH THE QUEEN . ( Part ...
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... heart I give thee joy , - Ì was once a barefoot boy ! 5. My heart leaps ùp when I behold A ráinbow in the sky ; So was it when my life begán ; So is it now I am a màn ; So be it when I shall grow old , Or let me die ! The child is ...
... heart I give thee joy , - Ì was once a barefoot boy ! 5. My heart leaps ùp when I behold A ráinbow in the sky ; So was it when my life begán ; So is it now I am a màn ; So be it when I shall grow old , Or let me die ! The child is ...
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... heart . 3. I see the smoke of the furnaces where manacles and fetters are still forged for human lìmbs . I see the visages of those who by stealth and at midnight labor in this work of hell , foul and dark , as may becòme the artificers ...
... heart . 3. I see the smoke of the furnaces where manacles and fetters are still forged for human lìmbs . I see the visages of those who by stealth and at midnight labor in this work of hell , foul and dark , as may becòme the artificers ...
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... heart of its quarried tower ; And it seems to say , As it dies away , - The brazen clang of the tremulous bell , — “ Old — ōld , wēary and ōld ; — The heart grows ōld ; for the world is cold , ” — Solemnly sighs the far - spent knell ...
... heart of its quarried tower ; And it seems to say , As it dies away , - The brazen clang of the tremulous bell , — “ Old — ōld , wēary and ōld ; — The heart grows ōld ; for the world is cold , ” — Solemnly sighs the far - spent knell ...
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... hearts than yoúrs ; go and comfort them , and that will comfort you . Are you ill and suffering ? By your gentle patience ... heart . 6. I do not acknowledge , sir , the rìght of Plymouth to the whole rock . Nò , the rock underlies all ...
... hearts than yoúrs ; go and comfort them , and that will comfort you . Are you ill and suffering ? By your gentle patience ... heart . 6. I do not acknowledge , sir , the rìght of Plymouth to the whole rock . Nò , the rock underlies all ...
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Page 250 - Then they rode back, but not, Not the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them...
Page 98 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace ; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume, And the bridemaidens whispered, " 'Twere better, by far, To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 253 - All this? ay, more: Fret till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Page 98 - I long wooed your daughter, my suit you denied ; — Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide — And now am I come, with this lost love of mine, To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine : There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far, That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar.
Page 111 - I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.
Page 358 - 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
Page 341 - When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the night 'tis my pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the blast.
Page 342 - The volcanoes are dim, and the stars reel and swim, When the whirlwinds my banner unfurl.
Page 176 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory, Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 381 - Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.