The Youth's Liberal Guide for Their Moral Culture and Religious EnlightenmentTrayser Bros., 1877 - 180 pages |
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... boy , and in truth A lad of decent parts , and good repute . This youth had sense and spirit ; But yet , with all his sense , Excessive diffidence Obscured his merit . One day at table , flushed with pride and wine 12.
... boy , and in truth A lad of decent parts , and good repute . This youth had sense and spirit ; But yet , with all his sense , Excessive diffidence Obscured his merit . One day at table , flushed with pride and wine 12.
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... spirits , he continued speechless , stretched on the ground , and only venting deep sighs . His friends tried to com- fort him ; but how weak are all consoling words against the cries of a justly alarmed conscience ! He was determined ...
... spirits , he continued speechless , stretched on the ground , and only venting deep sighs . His friends tried to com- fort him ; but how weak are all consoling words against the cries of a justly alarmed conscience ! He was determined ...
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... spirit of philanthropy . ( f ) -The Chieftain's Daughter . Upon the barren sand A single captive stood ; Around him came , with bow and brand The red men of the wood . Like him of old , his doom he hears , Rock - bound on ocean's brim ...
... spirit of philanthropy . ( f ) -The Chieftain's Daughter . Upon the barren sand A single captive stood ; Around him came , with bow and brand The red men of the wood . Like him of old , his doom he hears , Rock - bound on ocean's brim ...
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... spirit of his horse , and his great skill in swimming , he instantly determined to make a desper- ate effort for their deliverance . He alighted , and after blowing some spirits into the nostrils of the gallant steed , remounted , and ...
... spirit of his horse , and his great skill in swimming , he instantly determined to make a desper- ate effort for their deliverance . He alighted , and after blowing some spirits into the nostrils of the gallant steed , remounted , and ...
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... spirit hath painted It never hath found but in thee . Then when nature around me is smiling , The last smile which answers to mine , I do not believe it beguiling Because it reminds me of thine ; And when winds are at war with the ocean ...
... spirit hath painted It never hath found but in thee . Then when nature around me is smiling , The last smile which answers to mine , I do not believe it beguiling Because it reminds me of thine ; And when winds are at war with the ocean ...
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Page 50 - Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 76 - And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came ; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word : " Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog ! March on !
Page 46 - They climb up into my turret O'er the arms and back of my chair ; If I try to escape, they surround me ; They seem to be everywhere.
Page 45 - Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair.
Page 81 - They fought, like brave men, long and well ; They piled that ground with Moslem slain; They conquered— but Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won; Then saw in death his eyelids close, Calmly, as to a night's repose, Like flowers at set of sun.
Page 75 - Forty flags with their crimson bars, Flapped in the morning wind: the sun Of noon looked down, and saw not one. Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then, Bowed with her fourscore years and ten; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down; In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet.
Page 103 - Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye ; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Page 21 - His hair is crisp and black and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow : You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun is low.
Page 81 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band : " Strike till the last armed foe expires ! Strike for your altars and your fires ! Strike for the green graves of your sires, God and your native land...
Page 161 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sun-shine, and the heart-felt joy, Is Virtue's prize...