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... Heaven tries the Earth if it be in tune , And over it softly her warm ear lays . " 18 - LESSON LII . " Oh , loveliest , there the spring days come , With blossoms , and birds , and wild bees ' hum ; The flowers of summer are fairest ...
... Heaven tries the Earth if it be in tune , And over it softly her warm ear lays . " 18 - LESSON LII . " Oh , loveliest , there the spring days come , With blossoms , and birds , and wild bees ' hum ; The flowers of summer are fairest ...
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... Heaven's fire is around thee to blast and to burn ; Return to thy dwelling , all lonely return . " 15 Before midnight , the wind blew a hurricane . " In full - orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark - blue depths . " 16 ...
... Heaven's fire is around thee to blast and to burn ; Return to thy dwelling , all lonely return . " 15 Before midnight , the wind blew a hurricane . " In full - orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark - blue depths . " 16 ...
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... Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate . ” 73 Peace was celebrated by a brilliant fête . To perform a juggler's feat requires great dexter- ity . “ Three pairs of boots , one pair of feet demands . ” 74 66 They shout to find ...
... Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate . ” 73 Peace was celebrated by a brilliant fête . To perform a juggler's feat requires great dexter- ity . “ Three pairs of boots , one pair of feet demands . ” 74 66 They shout to find ...
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... on when the parson said hey ! " 104 " Earth has no sorrow that heaven can not heal . " 105 Achilles , the Grecian hero , was vulnerable in his heel only . LESSON XL . “ Hear the mellow wedding - bells 82 THE SENTENCE AND WORD BOOK .
... on when the parson said hey ! " 104 " Earth has no sorrow that heaven can not heal . " 105 Achilles , the Grecian hero , was vulnerable in his heel only . LESSON XL . “ Hear the mellow wedding - bells 82 THE SENTENCE AND WORD BOOK .
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... heaven . " 111 LESSON XLI . " There's a divinity that shapes our ends , Rough hew them how we will . ” 112 " He looked on the face and beheld the hue , So deeply changed from what he knew . " 118 Hugh Miller wrote " The Testimony of the ...
... heaven . " 111 LESSON XLI . " There's a divinity that shapes our ends , Rough hew them how we will . ” 112 " He looked on the face and beheld the hue , So deeply changed from what he knew . " 118 Hugh Miller wrote " The Testimony of the ...
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Page 155 - ... whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Page 150 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.
Page 130 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Page 130 - VITAL spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, oh, quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying : Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature ! cease thy strife, And let me languish into life ! Hark, they whisper ; angels say,
Page 137 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 135 - Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.
Page 142 - ... night ; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves ; and rows of pigeons, some with one eye turned up, as if watching the weather, some with their heads under their wings, or buried in their bosoms, and others swelling, and cooing, and bowing about their dames, were enjoying the sunshine on the roof.
Page 127 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 125 - The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Page 148 - Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.