A Sequel to the Gradual ReaderD. Burgess & Company, 1853 |
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Pagina 45
... rest . 8. Adieu ! for you want to be flying away , And it would be cruel to ask you to stay ; But come in the morning , come early and sing , For dearly I love you , sweet warbler of spring . THE WHITE CLOUD . 1. THUNDER Storms are not ...
... rest . 8. Adieu ! for you want to be flying away , And it would be cruel to ask you to stay ; But come in the morning , come early and sing , For dearly I love you , sweet warbler of spring . THE WHITE CLOUD . 1. THUNDER Storms are not ...
Pagina 52
... rest . 8. A man of cultivated imagination can converse with a picture , and find an agreeable companion even in a statue . 9. The bounties of Providence are so manifest , that a grateful heart is overpowered , when it calls them to ...
... rest . 8. A man of cultivated imagination can converse with a picture , and find an agreeable companion even in a statue . 9. The bounties of Providence are so manifest , that a grateful heart is overpowered , when it calls them to ...
Pagina 53
... rest ; " Tis not in wealth like England's Bank To make us truly blest . If happiness has not her seat And centre in the breast , We may be wise , or rich , or great , But never can be blest . 2. The ivy round some lofty pile Its twining ...
... rest ; " Tis not in wealth like England's Bank To make us truly blest . If happiness has not her seat And centre in the breast , We may be wise , or rich , or great , But never can be blest . 2. The ivy round some lofty pile Its twining ...
Pagina 55
David Bates Tower. even for a single day , discharges every duty that rests upon him , at the same time avoiding every thing that is wrong . There is usually something neglected , delayed , or postponed , that ought to be done to - day ...
David Bates Tower. even for a single day , discharges every duty that rests upon him , at the same time avoiding every thing that is wrong . There is usually something neglected , delayed , or postponed , that ought to be done to - day ...
Pagina 73
... rest to them who labor and are heavy laden . 2. No station is so high , no power so great , no character so unblemished , as to exempt men from being attacked by rashness , malice , or envy . 3. The fine arts promote benevolence by ...
... rest to them who labor and are heavy laden . 2. No station is so high , no power so great , no character so unblemished , as to exempt men from being attacked by rashness , malice , or envy . 3. The fine arts promote benevolence by ...
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Pagina 34 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Pagina 140 - Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light ; She for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit, Receives no praise, but (though her lot be such, Toilsome and indigent) she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her bible true, A truth the brilliant...
Pagina 34 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Pagina 217 - ... being the grand reformer of the age. From my spout, and such spouts as mine, must flow the stream that shall cleanse our earth of the vast portion of its crime and anguish, which has gushed from the fiery fountains of the still.
Pagina 214 - town treasurer" is rightfully mine, as guardian of the best treasure that the town has. The overseers of the poor ought to make me their chairman, since I provide bountifully for the pauper, without expense to him that pays taxes. I am at the head of the fire department, and one of the physicians to the board of health.
Pagina 218 - The husband and wife, drinking deep of peaceful joy — a calm bliss of temperate affections shall pass hand in hand through life and lie down not reluctantly at its protracted close. To them the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams, nor the future an eternity of such moments as follow the delirium of the drunkard. Their dead faces shall express what their spirits were and are to be by a lingering smile of memory and hope.
Pagina 182 - The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread.
Pagina 33 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Pagina 148 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Pagina 70 - It is pleasant to be virtuous and good ; because that is to excel many others : it is pleasant to grow better; because that is to excel ourselves: it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order, within the bounds of reason and religion ; because this is empire : nay, it is pleasant even to mortify and subdue our lusts , because that is victory.