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Page 364 - If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills! — No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
Page 393 - When evening spreads her shades around, And darkness fills the arch of heaven; When not a murmur, not a sound, To Fancy's sportive ear is given ; When the broad orb of heaven is bright, And looks around with golden eye; When Nature, softened by her light, Seems calmly, solemnly to lie; Then, when our thoughts are raised above This world, and all this world can give: Oh, sister, sing the song I love, And tears of gratitude receive. The song which thrills my bosom's core, And hovering, trembles, half...
Page 401 - AT evening time let there be light;" Life's little day draws near its close ; Around me fall the shades of night, The night of death, the grave's repose : To crown my joys, to end my woes. At evening time let there be light.
Page 232 - ... in which his armour was placed, and on that his diadem. And, after a little intermission, the king's children were led captives, and with them a train of...
Page 415 - The shape of the face is comely, the cheek-bones are not high, neither are the eyes hollow, nor the brow prominent: The only feature that does not...
Page 377 - tis a morn of May Round old Ravenna's clear-shown towers and bay, A morn, the loveliest which the year has seen Last of the spring, yet fresh with all its green ; For a warm eve, and gentle rains at night, Have left a sparkling welcome for the light, And there's a crystal clearness all about ; The leaves are sharp, the distant hills look out A balmy briskness comes upon the breeze ; The smoke goes dancing from the cottage trees ; And when you listen, you may hear a coil Of bubbling springs about...
Page 412 - The unreap'd harvest of unfurrow'd fields, And bakes its unadulterated loaves Without a furnace in unpurchased groves, And flings off famine from its fertile breast, A priceless market for the gathering guest...
Page 411 - The fruit grows on the boughs like apples ; it is as big as a penny loaf, when wheat is at five shillings the bushel ; it is of a round shape, and hath a thick tough rind ; when the fruit is ripe it is yellow and soft, and the taste is sweet and pleasant.
Page 415 - Morais, or repositories of the dead : the other most important article of building and carving is their boats '> and perhaps, to fabricate one of their principal vessels with their tools is as great a work, as to build a British man of war with ours.
Page 180 - A clever man," says Sir J. Herschel, " shut up alone and allowed unlimited time, might reason out for himself all the truths of mathematics, by proceeding from those simple notions of space and number of which he cannot divest himself without ceasing to think ; but he...