The Every Day Book for YouthCarter, Hendee and Company, 1834 - 415 pages |
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Page vii
... spirit is not to rest in the grave with the mouldering body , but is destined to rise with an immortal wing , into a higher and more important existence ! It is indeed the Bible which reveals to us these INTRODUCTION . vii.
... spirit is not to rest in the grave with the mouldering body , but is destined to rise with an immortal wing , into a higher and more important existence ! It is indeed the Bible which reveals to us these INTRODUCTION . vii.
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... spirit seeks the tomb , His brow yet fresh with childhood's bloom . Another treads the paths of fame , And barters peace to win a name . Another still tempts fortune's wave , And seeking wealth , secures a grave . The last grasps yet ...
... spirit seeks the tomb , His brow yet fresh with childhood's bloom . Another treads the paths of fame , And barters peace to win a name . Another still tempts fortune's wave , And seeking wealth , secures a grave . The last grasps yet ...
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... spirits as a school - boy in the holidays , sang and laughed , and skipped about from morning to night . It must be confessed , as a counter - balance to her other perfections , that the dear Cousin Mary was , as far as great natural ...
... spirits as a school - boy in the holidays , sang and laughed , and skipped about from morning to night . It must be confessed , as a counter - balance to her other perfections , that the dear Cousin Mary was , as far as great natural ...
Page 63
... spirit of independence was stirred within him , and for the first time in his life he thought of the productions of his pencil as a means of future support . Among other unfinished views , he had a favorite one , which represented Mary ...
... spirit of independence was stirred within him , and for the first time in his life he thought of the productions of his pencil as a means of future support . Among other unfinished views , he had a favorite one , which represented Mary ...
Page 65
... spirits of the air shouted their far off warnings to each other . The scene was too terrific in its majesty for even the poet to enjoy ; for an instinctive dread of thunder was one of his peculiarities . " Row faster , bargeman , and ...
... spirits of the air shouted their far off warnings to each other . The scene was too terrific in its majesty for even the poet to enjoy ; for an instinctive dread of thunder was one of his peculiarities . " Row faster , bargeman , and ...
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Page 251 - ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
Page 247 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! I remember, I remember...
Page 21 - But who the melodies of morn can tell ? — The wild brook babbling down the mountain side ; The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley ; echoing far and wide, The clamorous horn along the cliffs above ; The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide ; The hum of bees ; the linnet's lay of love ; And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.
Page 317 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar, Wait the great teacher, Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is, but always to be blest ; The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 24 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Page 341 - Imbrowned the noontide bowers : thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view ; — Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm, Others, whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable, Hesperian fables * true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste...
Page 44 - With quicken'd step, Brown night retires. Young day pours in apace, And opens all the lawny prospect wide. The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn.
Page 306 - I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew ; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade. The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And...
Page 335 - THERE is a glorious city in the sea. The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing ; and the salt sea-weed Clings to the marble of her palaces. No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the sea, Invisible ; and from the land we went, As to a floating city — steering in, And gliding up her streets as in a dream...
Page 338 - The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea; And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea: And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own; And when the ship from his fury flies.