Selections from modern authors, for the use of schools, by mrs. Gething1838 - 80 pages |
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... bright'ning and divine , May 1 then , trembling , grateful feel , Within this aged breast of mine , Religion's rays consoling steal , And meekly bend before my MAKER'S shrine . " RICHARD RYAN . The Comet . www How lonely in this ...
... bright'ning and divine , May 1 then , trembling , grateful feel , Within this aged breast of mine , Religion's rays consoling steal , And meekly bend before my MAKER'S shrine . " RICHARD RYAN . The Comet . www How lonely in this ...
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... bright star in the blue Of the still heav'ns , or beacon on the sea ; These have I thought thee , light of fanciful hours ! Fair promise of Time's yet unmeasured space ; But be thy bloom more durable than the flower's ! Thine all that ...
... bright star in the blue Of the still heav'ns , or beacon on the sea ; These have I thought thee , light of fanciful hours ! Fair promise of Time's yet unmeasured space ; But be thy bloom more durable than the flower's ! Thine all that ...
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... , — Something of sadness had wrapt the spot ; - But a gleam of thee on its lattice fell , And it laugh'd into beauty at that bright spell . Sunbeam of summer ! oh ! what is like thee MODERN AUTHORS . 43 The Sunbeam, Mrs Hemans.
... , — Something of sadness had wrapt the spot ; - But a gleam of thee on its lattice fell , And it laugh'd into beauty at that bright spell . Sunbeam of summer ! oh ! what is like thee MODERN AUTHORS . 43 The Sunbeam, Mrs Hemans.
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... bright fire , at an early hour , " I have this whole evening with him ; " but the whole evening passed away ; and , as she knelt afterwards to her prayers , she could only hang down her head and weep . She thought it would be impossible ...
... bright fire , at an early hour , " I have this whole evening with him ; " but the whole evening passed away ; and , as she knelt afterwards to her prayers , she could only hang down her head and weep . She thought it would be impossible ...
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... bright helms , and glittering spears , Lo ! Gaul's great emperor leads his knightly peers ; Hush'd is their iron tramp , and moonbeams dim Show'r on each ghastly brow and mail - clad limb . He too is there , who , slain on victory's day ...
... bright helms , and glittering spears , Lo ! Gaul's great emperor leads his knightly peers ; Hush'd is their iron tramp , and moonbeams dim Show'r on each ghastly brow and mail - clad limb . He too is there , who , slain on victory's day ...
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Page 336 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 45 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 337 - Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late; For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he...
Page 337 - I long wooed your daughter, my suit you denied;— Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide— And now I am come, with this lost love of mine, To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine. There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far, That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar.
Page 336 - He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone, He swam the Eske River where ford there was none; But, ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late: For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Page 242 - When the Lowlands shall meet thee in battle array ! For a field of the dead rushes red on my sight. And the clans of Culloden are scattered in fight : They rally, they bleed, for their kingdom and crown ; Woe, woe, to the riders that trample them down ! Proud Cumberland prances, insulting the slain, And their hoof-beaten bosoms are trod to the plain.
Page 98 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 337 - The bride kissed the goblet, the knight took it up ; He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup ; She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
Page 88 - Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked...
Page 186 - Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy ? are we stronger than he...