The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation: Selected Principally from Modern Authors of Great Britain and America, and Designed for the Use of the Highest Class in Public and Private Schools |
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... cold , And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart . A battle . Now , shield with shield , with helmet helmet clos'd , To armor armor , lance to lance oppos'd , Host against host the shadowy squadrons drew ; The sounding darts , in iron ...
... cold , And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart . A battle . Now , shield with shield , with helmet helmet clos'd , To armor armor , lance to lance oppos'd , Host against host the shadowy squadrons drew ; The sounding darts , in iron ...
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... cold ; but it rises from villages burned with fire , and from warm ruins , spread over the now naked plain . The ear is filled with the confused bellowing of oxen , and sad bleating of over - driven sheep ; they are swept from their ...
... cold ; but it rises from villages burned with fire , and from warm ruins , spread over the now naked plain . The ear is filled with the confused bellowing of oxen , and sad bleating of over - driven sheep ; they are swept from their ...
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... cold , and knowledge is mert ; that energy which collects , combines , amplifies , and animates ; the superiority must , with some hesitation , be allowed to Dryden . It is not to be inferred , that of this poetical vigor Pope had only ...
... cold , and knowledge is mert ; that energy which collects , combines , amplifies , and animates ; the superiority must , with some hesitation , be allowed to Dryden . It is not to be inferred , that of this poetical vigor Pope had only ...
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... cold cheek , and many a sigh , Call'd forth by thee , has swelled my aching breast , Yet still I bless thee , O thou chastening power ! For all I bless thee : thou hast taught my soul To rest upon itself , to look beyond The narrow ...
... cold cheek , and many a sigh , Call'd forth by thee , has swelled my aching breast , Yet still I bless thee , O thou chastening power ! For all I bless thee : thou hast taught my soul To rest upon itself , to look beyond The narrow ...
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... cold world's uncertain sympathy . ' Tis yours to guard the steps of innocence , To shield the naked head of misery ; Be ' gainst the strong , the helpless one's defence , And the poor prisoner from his chains to free . ” They hear not ...
... cold world's uncertain sympathy . ' Tis yours to guard the steps of innocence , To shield the naked head of misery ; Be ' gainst the strong , the helpless one's defence , And the poor prisoner from his chains to free . ” They hear not ...
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