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... soul of the spring - time , its light and its breath , Bring warmth to this coldness , bring life to this death ! Renew the great miracle : let us behold The stone from the mouth of the sepulchre rolled , And Nature , like Lazarus ...
... soul of the spring - time , its light and its breath , Bring warmth to this coldness , bring life to this death ! Renew the great miracle : let us behold The stone from the mouth of the sepulchre rolled , And Nature , like Lazarus ...
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... soul cried out , Well done ! ' As loud as he could bawl . " 6 LESSON V. A strip of green baize covered the desk - lid . A showy span of bays attracted much attention . When elected , President John Adams was quite bald . The boy bawled ...
... soul cried out , Well done ! ' As loud as he could bawl . " 6 LESSON V. A strip of green baize covered the desk - lid . A showy span of bays attracted much attention . When elected , President John Adams was quite bald . The boy bawled ...
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... soul of a beggar to serve for a weight . " 21 The bolder of the rascals took the lead . A natural rounded mass of rock is a bowlder . " The thunders growl distant and faint gleam the fires , As , borne on the whirlwind , the phantom ...
... soul of a beggar to serve for a weight . " 21 The bolder of the rascals took the lead . A natural rounded mass of rock is a bowlder . " The thunders growl distant and faint gleam the fires , As , borne on the whirlwind , the phantom ...
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... soul . " 28 The governess appeared well - bred and polite . " The prelate was to speech addressed , Each head sunk reverent on each breast . " 29 The belated seamen took refuge in the harbor of Brest . Ancient Britain included England ...
... soul . " 28 The governess appeared well - bred and polite . " The prelate was to speech addressed , Each head sunk reverent on each breast . " 29 The belated seamen took refuge in the harbor of Brest . Ancient Britain included England ...
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... soul . " 60 " These shallow draughts intoxicate the brain , But drinking largely sobers us again . ” 61 Two forged drafts were detected at the bank . " There the hero , silent lying , Scorns to yield a groan in dying . " 62 The art of ...
... soul . " 60 " These shallow draughts intoxicate the brain , But drinking largely sobers us again . ” 61 Two forged drafts were detected at the bank . " There the hero , silent lying , Scorns to yield a groan in dying . " 62 The art of ...
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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.