Laurie's Graduated series of reading lesson books, Book 6 |
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... tion he does good to all . A man who dedicates his life to knowledge , becomes habituated to pleasure , which car- ries with it no reproach : and there is one security that he will never love that pleasure which is paid for by anguish ...
... tion he does good to all . A man who dedicates his life to knowledge , becomes habituated to pleasure , which car- ries with it no reproach : and there is one security that he will never love that pleasure which is paid for by anguish ...
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... tion , that Southampton * allowed him equal patronage with the zanies † , jugglers , and bearwards ‡ of the time ? Yet compare his taste , even as it respects the negative side of things ; for , in regard to the positive and far higher ...
... tion , that Southampton * allowed him equal patronage with the zanies † , jugglers , and bearwards ‡ of the time ? Yet compare his taste , even as it respects the negative side of things ; for , in regard to the positive and far higher ...
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... tion among men , that is one . For if you attain this ob- ject , you may do what you like , serve your friends , raise your family , exalt your country's power , become famous in Athens , in Greece , and perhaps even among the ...
... tion among men , that is one . For if you attain this ob- ject , you may do what you like , serve your friends , raise your family , exalt your country's power , become famous in Athens , in Greece , and perhaps even among the ...
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... tion - is able to retire for a moment into solitude with God , and to seek all his counsel from Him . For seven seconds , it might be , of his seventy , the stranger settled his countenance steadfastly upon us , as if to search and ...
... tion - is able to retire for a moment into solitude with God , and to seek all his counsel from Him . For seven seconds , it might be , of his seventy , the stranger settled his countenance steadfastly upon us , as if to search and ...
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... tion established across a room between two entire strangers , moves all the springs of wonder . The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will . It is the bodily symbol of identity of ...
... tion established across a room between two entire strangers , moves all the springs of wonder . The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will . It is the bodily symbol of identity of ...
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Page 28 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease ; For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 99 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose: And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 28 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Page 12 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
Page 20 - If thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know, that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Page 3 - With them I take delight in weal, And seek relief in woe ; And, while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Page 12 - In me. thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west ; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire, Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by.
Page 2 - Leave to enjoy myself. That place, that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels ; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account ; and in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues.
Page 271 - There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf-stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater.
Page 3 - My hopes are with the Dead ; anon My place with them will be, And I with them shall travel on Through all Futurity ; Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust.