Sequel to The Analytical Reader: In which the Original Design is Extended, So as to Embrace an Explanation of Phrases and Figurative LanguageShirley & Hyde, 1828 - 300 páginas |
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... Lake George , and the country adjacent . This section of country is well known ; for independent of its neighborhood to the fort , and bat- tle ground of Ticonderoga , where many a warrior bled in our revolutionary struggle , its scenes ...
... Lake George , and the country adjacent . This section of country is well known ; for independent of its neighborhood to the fort , and bat- tle ground of Ticonderoga , where many a warrior bled in our revolutionary struggle , its scenes ...
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... Lake George . Give a description of this lake . See maps . Adjacent , lying near , adjoining . -Section , tract , district , part of a book , act of cut- ting . Fort , a fortified house , a castle . Ticonderoga . Where situate ...
... Lake George . Give a description of this lake . See maps . Adjacent , lying near , adjoining . -Section , tract , district , part of a book , act of cut- ting . Fort , a fortified house , a castle . Ticonderoga . Where situate ...
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... Lake George is sometimes vis- ited . The heaving and white foaming billows of the Lake made a gloomy contrast with the surrounding dark- ness . A deep dusk hung over the face of things and we could discern only enough to see the havoc ...
... Lake George is sometimes vis- ited . The heaving and white foaming billows of the Lake made a gloomy contrast with the surrounding dark- ness . A deep dusk hung over the face of things and we could discern only enough to see the havoc ...
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... Lake George . The next day was the Sab- bath ; and there was sadness upon the countenances of those who convened at the glen . The mourners were not relatives , for old Mandeville had none remaining . But they had known Jane in her ...
... Lake George . The next day was the Sab- bath ; and there was sadness upon the countenances of those who convened at the glen . The mourners were not relatives , for old Mandeville had none remaining . But they had known Jane in her ...
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... Lake George . The morning was fine , and we spent an hour in walking about the glen . We conversed - we prayed . It was the last time we were to be together this side the grave . I had endeavored , as far as possible , to ascertain the ...
... Lake George . The morning was fine , and we spent an hour in walking about the glen . We conversed - we prayed . It was the last time we were to be together this side the grave . I had endeavored , as far as possible , to ascertain the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adjective adverb affection Aleppo alogy ancholy appearance Beau ideal beauty bloom body bright called Change clouds color cottage countenance course dark daugh daughter dear Jane death dreadful dress earth England evil books falsehood father fear feelings figure fire grave guilty habit happy heard heart heaven hope human Iliad inflection Jane knowledge labor Lake George lava LESSON lies light living look looking-glass lying manner mark meaning meant ment mind mistress moral morning mountain nature never night noun object obliged passed pause persons pleasure prayer principles reading reason rising rocks ruins scene shine sight Sir William Jones slaves sorrow soul Spell spirit splendor stars stream sublime sweet Jane thee things thou thought tion truth utter verb voice volcano Whence the allusion wind wisdom Wiser sex word
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Página 240 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !" The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy, Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Página 156 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest than it could recover by the libration and...
Página 222 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 40 - To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.
Página 270 - Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? So long he seems to pause On thy bald awful head, O sovran BLANC! The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again...
Página 236 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function — fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those...
Página 283 - Will he make many supplications unto thee ? Will he speak soft words unto thee ? Will he make a covenant with thee ? Wilt thou take him for a servant for ever ? Wilt thou play with him as with a bird ? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens...
Página 224 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Página 270 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer 1...
Página 283 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.