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 Schools |
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Page xxvi
... night's repose , Like flowers at set of sun . ' 99 " I have known deeper wrongs . I , that speak to ye , I had a brother once , a gracious boy , Full of all gentleness , of calmest hope , - Of sweet and quiet joy , — there was the look ...
... night's repose , Like flowers at set of sun . ' 99 " I have known deeper wrongs . I , that speak to ye , I had a brother once , a gracious boy , Full of all gentleness , of calmest hope , - Of sweet and quiet joy , — there was the look ...
Page xxxix
... night brilliant with stars , and a night obscure with clouds ; — you will then have a more just notion of the spectacle of the universe . Is it not wondrous , that while you are admiring the sun plunging beneath the vault of the west ...
... night brilliant with stars , and a night obscure with clouds ; — you will then have a more just notion of the spectacle of the universe . Is it not wondrous , that while you are admiring the sun plunging beneath the vault of the west ...
Page xlv
... Joyous ' example for higher pitch ' and wider compass . ' " There was a sound of revelry by night , And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry ; and bright The lamps INTRODUCTORY TREATISE . xiv.
... Joyous ' example for higher pitch ' and wider compass . ' " There was a sound of revelry by night , And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry ; and bright The lamps INTRODUCTORY TREATISE . xiv.
Page lviii
... night ! I am afear'd , Being in night , all this is but a dream Too flattering - sweet to be substantial . " With very long slides , ' and ' loud force , ' and ' high pitch , ' the tremulous vanishing stress ' is natural and most ...
... night ! I am afear'd , Being in night , all this is but a dream Too flattering - sweet to be substantial . " With very long slides , ' and ' loud force , ' and ' high pitch , ' the tremulous vanishing stress ' is natural and most ...
Page lxiv
... night is bare , From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams , and heaven is overflowed . " 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 ...
... night is bare , From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams , and heaven is overflowed . " 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 ...
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