School English: A Manual for Use in Connection with the Written English Work of Secondary SchoolsAmerican Book Company, 1894 - 272 Seiten |
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Seite 259 - Unpracticed he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour, Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train , He chid their wanderings but relieved their paiu: The
Seite 122 - She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like Patience on a monument, Smiling
Seite 146 - Brown Exercise rejoic'd to hear, And Sport leapt up and .seiz'd his beechen spear. Last came Joy's ecstatic trial: He, with viny crown advancing, First to the lively pipe his hand addrest, But soon he saw the brisk-awak'ning viol, Whose sweet entrancing voice he lov'd the best; They would have thought, who heard the strain.
Seite 145 - Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to faun and dryad known! The oak-crowned sisters and their chaste-eyed queen, Satyrs and silvan boys, were seen, Peeping from forth their alleys green ; Brown Exercise
Seite 261 - learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he; Full well the busy whisper circling round Conveyed the dismal tidings when he
Seite 140 - tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bow'r, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many
Seite 124 - Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing.
Seite 139 - GRAY. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled
Seite 134 - Cry aloud : for he is a god.; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Seite 262 - But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed — In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain; And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.