Cobb's Sequel to the Juvenile Readers: Comprising a Selection of Lessons in Prose and Poetry, from Highly Esteemed American Writers : Designed for the Use of Higher Classes in Schools and Academies : and to Impress the Minds of Youth with Sentiments of Virtue and ReligionHarper & Bros., 1834 - 215 páginas |
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... hill . 3. The lime - leaf waves not in the grove , Nor rose - tree in the bower ; The birds have ceased their songs ... hills to shake ; And , in terrifick splendour bright , The gathered lightnings break . 6. Yet fear not , shrink not ...
... hill . 3. The lime - leaf waves not in the grove , Nor rose - tree in the bower ; The birds have ceased their songs ... hills to shake ; And , in terrifick splendour bright , The gathered lightnings break . 6. Yet fear not , shrink not ...
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... hill , a distance of a quarter of a mile , with the assistance of the branches of trees and projecting roots . In consequence of the heavy rain that had fallen in the night , this was rendered more difficult , and occasioned much ...
... hill , a distance of a quarter of a mile , with the assistance of the branches of trees and projecting roots . In consequence of the heavy rain that had fallen in the night , this was rendered more difficult , and occasioned much ...
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... hills Farther down , its channel is bounded by precipitous rocks , its breadth becoming extremely contracted and the rapidity of its current proportionably augmented , 2. At a place called " the natural steps , " there are several ...
... hills Farther down , its channel is bounded by precipitous rocks , its breadth becoming extremely contracted and the rapidity of its current proportionably augmented , 2. At a place called " the natural steps , " there are several ...
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... hills from the dissolving snow - wreaths that yet linger at their feet ! A few warm , sunny days , and a few breezy and melting nights , have seemed to create the sweet season of spring out of the winter's bleak- est desolation . We can ...
... hills from the dissolving snow - wreaths that yet linger at their feet ! A few warm , sunny days , and a few breezy and melting nights , have seemed to create the sweet season of spring out of the winter's bleak- est desolation . We can ...
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... hill trees , seemed almost tinged with a verdant light , as if they were budding ; and beneath them , here and there ... hills ; all sedate , but none sad , and every greeting was that of kindness and peace . The Elder had died full of ...
... hill trees , seemed almost tinged with a verdant light , as if they were budding ; and beneath them , here and there ... hills ; all sedate , but none sad , and every greeting was that of kindness and peace . The Elder had died full of ...
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Página 191 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Página 23 - Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread ; My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, For thou, O Lord, art with me still ; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious lonely wilds I stray.
Página 191 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Página 196 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Página 83 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 109 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene!
Página 54 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone; who can be a companion of thy course?
Página 126 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Página 190 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Página 79 - Tis life to feel the night-wind That lifts his tossing mane. A moment in the British camp — A moment — and away, Back to the pathless forest Before the peep of day. Grave men there are by broad Santee, Grave men with hoary hairs; Their hearts are all with Marion, For Marion are their prayers. And lovely ladies greet our band With kindliest welcoming, With smiles like those of summer, And tears like those of spring. For them we wear these trusty arms, And lay them down no more Till we have driven...