Training school reader. [Ed.] by W.J. UnwinWilliam Jordan Unwin 1862 |
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... hands , as in those of the Romish clergy of after ages . Into the maritime provinces southward of the Thames , colonies probably recent from Belgic Gaul began to introduce tillage ; they retained the names of their parent tribes on the ...
... hands , as in those of the Romish clergy of after ages . Into the maritime provinces southward of the Thames , colonies probably recent from Belgic Gaul began to introduce tillage ; they retained the names of their parent tribes on the ...
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... hand , now pinion'd flat , Has hob - a - nobbed with Pharaoh , glass to glass ; Or dropp'd a halfpenny in Homer's hat , Or doff'd thine own to let Queen Dido pass ; Or held , by Solomon's own invitation , A torch at the great temple's ...
... hand , now pinion'd flat , Has hob - a - nobbed with Pharaoh , glass to glass ; Or dropp'd a halfpenny in Homer's hat , Or doff'd thine own to let Queen Dido pass ; Or held , by Solomon's own invitation , A torch at the great temple's ...
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... hands a volume of these poems , in which the beautiful characters pleased her husband's children , said to them , " I will give it to the one among you who first learns to read it . " " Will you ? " eagerly asked Alfred , though the ...
... hands a volume of these poems , in which the beautiful characters pleased her husband's children , said to them , " I will give it to the one among you who first learns to read it . " " Will you ? " eagerly asked Alfred , though the ...
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... hand , and a different abundance . Who shall doubt that this varying abundance is proportioned to the thirst of each . - Moseley . LESSON XVII . - TUESDAY . FORCE . Force is that which produces or tends to produce motion . or change of ...
... hand , and a different abundance . Who shall doubt that this varying abundance is proportioned to the thirst of each . - Moseley . LESSON XVII . - TUESDAY . FORCE . Force is that which produces or tends to produce motion . or change of ...
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... hand : Capricious taste itself can crave no more Than she supplies from her abounding store : She strikes out all that luxury can ask , And gains new vigour at her endless task . Her's is the spacious arch , the shapely spire , The ...
... hand : Capricious taste itself can crave no more Than she supplies from her abounding store : She strikes out all that luxury can ask , And gains new vigour at her endless task . Her's is the spacious arch , the shapely spire , The ...
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Page 20 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 103 - MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 146 - For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, % Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Page 192 - Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise: Winds blow, and Waters roll, Strength to the brave, and Power, and Deity, Yet in themselves are nothing!
Page 37 - 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 '. His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
Page 173 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Page 200 - And all amid them stood the tree of life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold; and next to life Our death the tree of knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill.
Page 146 - Look how the Lion of the sea lifts up his ancient crown, And underneath his deadly paw treads the gay lilies down. So stalked he when he turned to flight, on that famed Picard field, Bohemia's plume, and Genoa's bow, and Caesar's eagle shield.
Page 146 - With his white hair unbonneted, the stout old sheriff comes; Behind him march the halberdiers; before him sound the drums; His yeomen round the market cross make clear an ample space; For there behoves him to set up the standard of Her Grace.
Page 212 - As in her natural form, swelled vast to Heaven ! Awake, my soul ! not only passive praise Thou owest ! not alone these swelling tears, Mute thanks and secret ecstasy ! Awake, Voice of sweet song ! Awake, my Heart, awake ! Green vales and icy cliffs, all join my Hymn.