Class Book of Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Selection from the Best English and American Authors, Designed as Exercises in Parsing, for the Use of Common Schools and Academies, by Truman Rickard and Hiram OrcuttR.S. Davis & Company, 1863 - 139 páginas |
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Página 34
... round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams , oh 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 ...
... round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams , oh 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 ...
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... round about him for some more commodious path . He saw , on his right hand , a grove that seemed to wave its shades as a sign of invitation ; he entered it , and found the coolness and verdure irresistibly pleasant . 20 -PROSE EXERCISE ...
... round about him for some more commodious path . He saw , on his right hand , a grove that seemed to wave its shades as a sign of invitation ; he entered it , and found the coolness and verdure irresistibly pleasant . 20 -PROSE EXERCISE ...
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... round his head . He was now roused by his danger to a quick and painful remembrance of his folly ; he now saw how happiness is lost when ease is consulted ; he lamented the unmanly impatience that prompted him to seek shelter in the ...
... round his head . He was now roused by his danger to a quick and painful remembrance of his folly ; he now saw how happiness is lost when ease is consulted ; he lamented the unmanly impatience that prompted him to seek shelter in the ...
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... round and round with glittering ornaments , than the mind begins to fall from its elevation ; the transport is over ; the beautiful may remain , but the sublime is gone . Hence the con- cise and simple style of Ossian gives great ...
... round and round with glittering ornaments , than the mind begins to fall from its elevation ; the transport is over ; the beautiful may remain , but the sublime is gone . Hence the con- cise and simple style of Ossian gives great ...
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... round his breast the ripples break , As down he bears before the gale . 2. On thy fair bosom , waveless stream ! The dipping paddle echoes far , And flashes in the moonlight gleam , And bright reflects the polar star . 3. The waves ...
... round his breast the ripples break , As down he bears before the gale . 2. On thy fair bosom , waveless stream ! The dipping paddle echoes far , And flashes in the moonlight gleam , And bright reflects the polar star . 3. The waves ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adjective of quality adverb Attica beauty behold bliss breath bright clouds common noun compound conjunction containing the grammatical containing the simple contemn copula cottage dark declarative deep definite article delightful denotes dependent clause direct object distinct earth eternal EXERCISE exponent exponential adjunct expressing the relation fall finite verb flowers gentle glory grammatical subject grave happy heart heaven hills human imperfect tense indicative mood infinite intellective interrogative light living logical and grammatical logical predicate logical subject masculine gender mighty mind modified word morning mountains nature neuter gender night nude adjunct o'er Obidah offices and relations Participle past plural number positive sentence Poss preposition pronoun repose rest river RULE simple grammatical predicate singular number song soul sound spirit stars sublime subordinate clause substantive sweet Syntax thee things third person thou art thought throne transitive verb virtue voice waves winds
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Página 47 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 46 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Página 139 - Yet a few days and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Página 140 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Página 139 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house...
Página 46 - ... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Página 140 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Página 117 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms - the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Página 139 - 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 141 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged...