Cobb's Sequel to the Juvenile Readers: Comprising a Selection of Lessons in Prose and Poetry, from Highly Esteemed American Writers : Designed for the Use of Higher Classes in Schools and Academies : and to Impress the Minds of Youth with Sentiments of Virtue and ReligionHarper & Bros., 1834 - 215 страници |
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... mountains pant ; To fertile vales , and dewy meads , My weary wand'ring steps he leads : Where peaceful rivers , soft and slow , Amid the verdant landscape flow . 3. Though in the paths of death I tread , COBB'S SEQUEL . The Epitaph ...
... mountains pant ; To fertile vales , and dewy meads , My weary wand'ring steps he leads : Where peaceful rivers , soft and slow , Amid the verdant landscape flow . 3. Though in the paths of death I tread , COBB'S SEQUEL . The Epitaph ...
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... mountain , the party dismounted and scrambled up the side of a hill , a distance of a quarter of a mile , with the assistance of the branches of trees and projecting roots . In consequence of the heavy rain that had fallen in the night ...
... mountain , the party dismounted and scrambled up the side of a hill , a distance of a quarter of a mile , with the assistance of the branches of trees and projecting roots . In consequence of the heavy rain that had fallen in the night ...
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... mountain on which it has its source , At a station called La Motte , situated on the northern extremity of a sloping ground , its waters diffuse themselves into shallow currents , interrupted by rocks which break them into foam , and ...
... mountain on which it has its source , At a station called La Motte , situated on the northern extremity of a sloping ground , its waters diffuse themselves into shallow currents , interrupted by rocks which break them into foam , and ...
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... into the most tumultuous con- fusion . The aerial torrent bursts its way over mountains , seas , and continent . All things feel the dreadful shock . All things · tremble before the furious blast . The forest , COBB'S SEQUEL . 59.
... into the most tumultuous con- fusion . The aerial torrent bursts its way over mountains , seas , and continent . All things feel the dreadful shock . All things · tremble before the furious blast . The forest , COBB'S SEQUEL . 59.
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... mountain ; they plough the frightful ridge , and seem to skim the skies . Anon they plunge into the opening gulf ; they lose the sight of day , and are lost themselves to every eye . 8. How vain is the pilot's art ; how impotent the ...
... mountain ; they plough the frightful ridge , and seem to skim the skies . Anon they plunge into the opening gulf ; they lose the sight of day , and are lost themselves to every eye . 8. How vain is the pilot's art ; how impotent the ...
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Страница 191 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Страница 23 - Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread ; My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, For thou, O Lord, art with me still ; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious lonely wilds I stray.
Страница 191 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
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Страница 83 - 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.
Страница 109 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene!
Страница 54 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O 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 thyself movest alone; who can be a companion of thy course?
Страница 126 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Страница 190 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Страница 79 - Tis life to feel the night-wind That lifts his tossing mane. A moment in the British camp — A moment — and away, Back to the pathless forest Before the peep of day. Grave men there are by broad Santee, Grave men with hoary hairs; Their hearts are all with Marion, For Marion are their prayers. And lovely ladies greet our band With kindliest welcoming, With smiles like those of summer, And tears like those of spring. For them we wear these trusty arms, And lay them down no more Till we have driven...