Warren's Reading SelectionW.S. Fortescue, 1879 - 408 pagini |
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Pagina xxvi
... side | at night , | and heard the peb- blessing , and the waves | chant God's glories ? | Or | have you never risen from your couch , | and thrown up the window | • of your chamber , | and listened there ? xxvi INTRODUCTION .
... side | at night , | and heard the peb- blessing , and the waves | chant God's glories ? | Or | have you never risen from your couch , | and thrown up the window | • of your chamber , | and listened there ? xxvi INTRODUCTION .
Pagina 35
... side of the other miracles which it has already done ; it has only to find the means to propel in a mass of air a bubble of air still lighter ; it has already secured the air - bubble , and it holds it im- prisoned ; it has only to find ...
... side of the other miracles which it has already done ; it has only to find the means to propel in a mass of air a bubble of air still lighter ; it has already secured the air - bubble , and it holds it im- prisoned ; it has only to find ...
Pagina 37
... side , Where , far and wide , Like a leopard's spotted and tawny hide , Stretches the plain , To the dry grass and the drier grain How welcome is the rain ! In the furrowed land The toilsome and patient oxen stand ; Lifting the yoke ...
... side , Where , far and wide , Like a leopard's spotted and tawny hide , Stretches the plain , To the dry grass and the drier grain How welcome is the rain ! In the furrowed land The toilsome and patient oxen stand ; Lifting the yoke ...
Pagina 40
... side he voted ? " Rip stared in vacant stupidity . Another short but busy little fellow pulled him by the arm , and , rising on tiptoe , inquired in his ear , " Whether he was Federal or Democrat ? " Rip was equally at a loss to ...
... side he voted ? " Rip stared in vacant stupidity . Another short but busy little fellow pulled him by the arm , and , rising on tiptoe , inquired in his ear , " Whether he was Federal or Democrat ? " Rip was equally at a loss to ...
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... side death stared us in the face ; no human skill could avert it any longer . We saw the mo- ment approach when we must bid farewell to earth , yet without feeling that unutterable horror which must have been experienced by the unhappy ...
... side death stared us in the face ; no human skill could avert it any longer . We saw the mo- ment approach when we must bid farewell to earth , yet without feeling that unutterable horror which must have been experienced by the unhappy ...
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Pagina 164 - Both read the same bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not that we be not judged.
Pagina 165 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Pagina 395 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods.
Pagina 162 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord : He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored ; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible Swift Sword ; His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps ; They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps ; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps : His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnish'd rows of steel ; "As...
Pagina xxv - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden, saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Pagina 242 - And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.
Pagina 396 - Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in mind ; Thrice thirty thousand foes before, And the broad flood behind. " Down with him ! " cried false Sextus, With a smile on his pale face. "Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena,
Pagina 249 - ... our eyes, but we cannot help knowing That skies are clear and grass is growing; The breeze comes whispering in our ear, That dandelions are blossoming near, That maize has sprouted, that streams are flowing, That the river is bluer than the sky, That the robin is plastering his house hard by; And if the breeze kept the good news back. For other couriers we should not lack; We could guess it all by yon heifer's lowing, — And hark!
Pagina 164 - Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Pagina 248 - And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers; The flush of life may well be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace...