The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with Biographical and Critical Notices of the Authors : for the Use of Advanced Classes in Public and Private SchoolsBrewer and Tileston, 1863 - 436 páginas |
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... rock shall fly - From its firm base as soon as I. " - - 2. " There is , however , one man , who distinctly and au- daciously tells the Irish people that they are not entitled to the same privileges as Englishmen , and pronounces them ...
... rock shall fly - From its firm base as soon as I. " - - 2. " There is , however , one man , who distinctly and au- daciously tells the Irish people that they are not entitled to the same privileges as Englishmen , and pronounces them ...
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... rocks , the woods , the vale , She called on Echo still through all her song ! And , where her sweetest theme she chose , A soft responsive voice was heard at every close ; And Hope , enchanted , smiled , and waved her golden hair ...
... rocks , the woods , the vale , She called on Echo still through all her song ! And , where her sweetest theme she chose , A soft responsive voice was heard at every close ; And Hope , enchanted , smiled , and waved her golden hair ...
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... of small islands , twenty - five in number at low tide , called the Farne Islands . Their aspect is wild and desolate in the extreme . Composed of rock , with a slight covering of herbage , and in many places HILLARD'S SIXTH READER . 3.
... of small islands , twenty - five in number at low tide , called the Farne Islands . Their aspect is wild and desolate in the extreme . Composed of rock , with a slight covering of herbage , and in many places HILLARD'S SIXTH READER . 3.
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... rocks which every ebb tide exposes to view . Upon Longstone , one of these islands , there stands a light - house , which , at the time of the incident about to be related , was kept by William Darling , a worthy and intel- 10 ligent ...
... rocks which every ebb tide exposes to view . Upon Longstone , one of these islands , there stands a light - house , which , at the time of the incident about to be related , was kept by William Darling , a worthy and intel- 10 ligent ...
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... rock . These few survivors remained in their dread- ful situation till daybreak , with a fearful sea running 30 ... rocks a sea was raging in which no boat was likely to live . But , through the providence of God , a deliverance was in ...
... rock . These few survivors remained in their dread- ful situation till daybreak , with a fearful sea running 30 ... rocks a sea was raging in which no boat was likely to live . But , through the providence of God , a deliverance was in ...
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Página lxiv - What thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Página 417 - Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, Quite vanquished him. Then burst his mighty heart; And in his mantle muffling up his face, Even at the base of Pompey's statue (Which all the while ran blood) great Caesar fell.
Página lxv - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
Página lxi - tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Página 237 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Página 121 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of death Rode the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them...
Página 404 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Página xlv - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Página 415 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Página 140 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.