The School Reader: Designed as a Sequel to Sanders' Fourth Reader : Part First, Containing Full Instructions in the Rhetorical Principles of Reading Or Speaking, Illustrated by Numerous Examples, Part Second, Consisting of Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry from Various Eloquent Writers, Accompanied with Notes Explanatory of Such Historical Or Classical Allusions, as the Several Lessons Contain : for the Use of Academies and the Highest Classes in Common and Select Schools. Fifth book

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Էջ 236 - Thou turnest man to destruction ; And sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight, Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood , They are as a sleep ; In the morning they are like grass which
Էջ 406 - was heard from high. Arise ! ye more than dead! Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations, leap, And Music's voice obey. From harmony,—from heavenly harmony. This universal frame began. From harmony to harmony, Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man 1
Էջ 71 - climes, we can not but exclaim, '' Westward the star of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last." 7. In this high romance, if romance it be, in which the great minds of antiquity sketched the fortunes of the ages to
Էջ 281 - OP FRIENDS. 1. Friend after friend departs ; Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts, That finds not here an end; Were this frail world our only rest, Living or dying, none were blessed. 2, Beyond the flight of Time, Beyond tins vale of death, There surely is some blessed clime
Էջ 236 - of Thine anger ? Even according to Thy fear, so is Thy wrath. So teach us to number our days, That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Return, 0 Lord, how long ? And let it repent Thee concerning Thy servants. O satisfy us early with Thy mercy ; Make us glad according to the days wherein
Էջ 150 - It can not be valued with the gold of Ophir,— With the precious onyx or the sapphire. The gold and the crystal can not equal it; And the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearla; For the price of wisdom is above
Էջ 130 - a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood !— Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced ; its arms and
Էջ 130 - While the union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the vail. God grant that, in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise,—that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind.
Էջ 355 - MODERN GREECE. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness,— The last of danger and distress, — Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there,—
Էջ 130 - shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious union,— on Slates dissevered, discordant, belligerent,—on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood !— Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced ; its arms and

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