Monroe's New Fifth ReaderE.H. Butler & Company, 1884 - 432 страници |
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Abraham Davenport ancient battle beautiful bell born breath Brutus Cæsar called cried Danes dark dead dear death Duke earth ellipsis emphatic England English eyes face father feet figure of rhetoric fire Francis Mahony friends genius give glory grace grammatical Guthrum hand Harold hath head hear heard heart heaven hills honor hour human hyperbaton inflection James Russell Lowell John Julius Cæsar kind of sentence king King of England land liberty light live look lord Marcus Junius Brutus metonymy mother mountain nature never night noble nominative Norman noun o'er orator pleonasm poem poet poetry Preparatory Study pudding pyramids Queen river Lee round Scotland Shandon shore signifies silent soul sound stars stone stood sweet tell thee things thou trees umbrella verb voice Westlock William the Conqueror words
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Страница 46 - — but there is no peace : the war is actually begun ! — The next gale that sweeps from the north, will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms...
Страница 206 - And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Страница 374 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle; I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on. 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii. Look ! In this place ran Cassius...
Страница 206 - The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings; He sings to the wide world and she to her nest, — In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best?
Страница 422 - Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Страница 268 - ... of business. 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.
Страница 239 - 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?
Страница 34 - Thou art, O God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from Thee, Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are Thine!
Страница 207 - That maize has sprouted, that streams are flowing, That the river is bluer than the sky, That the robin is plastering his house hard by: And if the breeze kept the good news back, For other couriers we should not lack; We could guess it all by yon heifer's lowing, — And hark! how clear bold chanticleer, Warmed with the new wine of the year, Tells all in his lusty crowing!
Страница 371 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.