English Synonymes Classified and Explained: With Practical Exercises, Designed for Schools and Private TuitionD. Appleton, 1867 - 344 páginas |
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... friends in their absence . No tidings have been received of the steam - ship The President , since she sailed from New York , in March , 1841 . [ Cleo . Though it be honest , it is never good . To bring bad news : Give to a gracious ...
... friends in their absence . No tidings have been received of the steam - ship The President , since she sailed from New York , in March , 1841 . [ Cleo . Though it be honest , it is never good . To bring bad news : Give to a gracious ...
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... friends , and without money , I should have perished for want , had it not been for some benevolent merchants , who pitied my forlorn condition and supplied my necessities till I should receive remittances from England . The prize ...
... friends , and without money , I should have perished for want , had it not been for some benevolent merchants , who pitied my forlorn condition and supplied my necessities till I should receive remittances from England . The prize ...
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... friends and relations , seem to have no other wish towards the little girl , but that she may have a fair skin , a fine dress well , and dance to admiration . " " Gold will endure a vehement fire without any change , and after it has ...
... friends and relations , seem to have no other wish towards the little girl , but that she may have a fair skin , a fine dress well , and dance to admiration . " " Gold will endure a vehement fire without any change , and after it has ...
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... friend is a man of such excellent saw him in an ill that I do not think I ever The moment he entered the room , I saw that something had vexed him , for he was in such an ill that he seemed resolved to be pleased with nothing I could ...
... friend is a man of such excellent saw him in an ill that I do not think I ever The moment he entered the room , I saw that something had vexed him , for he was in such an ill that he seemed resolved to be pleased with nothing I could ...
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... friend bestows favours on another . We be- stow charity on the poor . It is also to be observed , that these verbs are scarcely ever used with any other than abstract nouns . Honours , dignities , privileges , & c . , are conferred ...
... friend bestows favours on another . We be- stow charity on the poor . It is also to be observed , that these verbs are scarcely ever used with any other than abstract nouns . Honours , dignities , privileges , & c . , are conferred ...
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Página 87 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the Earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket, have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air. Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ! Oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number joined, their songs Divide the...
Página 118 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Página 212 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Página 47 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Página 223 - Pure as the expanse of heaven ; I thither went With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seemed another sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appeared, Bending to look on me : I started back, It started back ; but pleased I soon returned, Pleased it returned as soon with answering looks Of sympathy and love...
Página 203 - ... ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep, Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill, or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord! be bounteous still To give us only good; and, if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed. Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark!
Página 333 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Página 133 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Página 275 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence.
Página 117 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...