A Gift for My Young FriendsLeavitt & Allen, 1854 - 260 páginas Contains prose and poetry, natural history, fables, epigrams and conduct of life suggestions. |
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... wild , strong ravines of these shaggy rocks . At length , after several passes , I gained the ascent of a high mountain . Upon an opposite height , descending as a steep ravine , and forming , with the elevation on which I rested , a ...
... wild , strong ravines of these shaggy rocks . At length , after several passes , I gained the ascent of a high mountain . Upon an opposite height , descending as a steep ravine , and forming , with the elevation on which I rested , a ...
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... wild brook babbling down the mountain side The lowing herd - the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley ; echoing far and wide The clamorous horn along the cliffs above ; The hollow murmur ...
... wild brook babbling down the mountain side The lowing herd - the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley ; echoing far and wide The clamorous horn along the cliffs above ; The hollow murmur ...
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... wild deer trip , and often turning gaze At early passenger . Music awakes The native voice of undissembled joy ; And thick around the woodland hymns arise . Roused by the cock , the soon - clad shepherd leave His mossy cottage , where ...
... wild deer trip , and often turning gaze At early passenger . Music awakes The native voice of undissembled joy ; And thick around the woodland hymns arise . Roused by the cock , the soon - clad shepherd leave His mossy cottage , where ...
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... wild Trumpet , came down , And Lupine , whose azure eye sparkled with dew , On Amaranth leaned , the unchanging and true ; While modest Clematis appeared as a bride , 50 FLORA'S PARTY . And her husband , the Lilac 4 *
... wild Trumpet , came down , And Lupine , whose azure eye sparkled with dew , On Amaranth leaned , the unchanging and true ; While modest Clematis appeared as a bride , 50 FLORA'S PARTY . And her husband , the Lilac 4 *
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... Wild Freedom's boon to all who live ? The madd'ning flame promiscuous hurled , Would wrap in anarchy the world . Go ! haste the hour , when none shall view , The million meekly serve the few , O'erturn the thrones which , fixed as fate ...
... Wild Freedom's boon to all who live ? The madd'ning flame promiscuous hurled , Would wrap in anarchy the world . Go ! haste the hour , when none shall view , The million meekly serve the few , O'erturn the thrones which , fixed as fate ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ALPS animals beauty birds bosom breast breath bright CARRIER PIGEON cheer COUSIN MARY creatures cricket cried danger dark death deep Dennie earth ENVY FABLE fair fear fish flowers forest friends frog give grave grove happiness hast hath heart heaven honor hope hour insects JACKDAW king lady leaf light live look LORD CORNWAL manners MELROSE ABBEY mercy mind miss thee MORAL morning mourn murmurs nature ne'er ness nest never night o'er ourselves pain passions peace pectoral fins PHILIP OF MACEDON philosophers Phoenicia poor praise pride proverb quadrupeds racter replied River rose SENECA LAKE serpents shine side sigh SIR WALTER SCOTT skies smile soon sorrow soul spirit stream sweet temper things thou thought tree truth virtue wave wild wind wing YALE COLLEGE young youth
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Página 181 - ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
Página 181 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First, his Cromwell — and George the Third'* — (' Treason,' cried the speaker — ' Treason, treason !' echoed from every part of the house.
Página 176 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER. I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day ; But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! T remember.
Página 26 - But who the melodies of morn can tell ? — The wild brook babbling down the mountain side ; The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley ; echoing far and wide, The clamorous horn along the cliffs above ; The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide ; The hum of bees ; the linnet's lay of love ; And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.
Página 235 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar, Wait the great teacher, Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is, but always to be blest ; The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Página 29 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Página 224 - I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew ; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade. The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And...
Página 85 - On thy fair bosom, silver lake, The wild swan spreads his snowy sail, And round his breast the ripples break, As down he bears before the gale. On thy fair bosom, waveless stream, The dipping paddle echoes far, And flashes in the moonlight gleam, And bright reflects the polar star.
Página 104 - Traveller, in the stranger's land, Far from thine own household band; Mourner, haunted by the tone Of a voice from this world gone ; Captive, in whose narrow cell Sunshine hath not leave to dwell; Sailor, on the darkening sea ! Lift the heart and bend the knee...
Página 35 - And what are we That hear the question of that voice sublime? Oh, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet by thy thundering side ? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life to thy unceasing roar ? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to HIM Who drowned the world and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains ?— a light wave That breaks and whispers of its Maker's might.