The English Language: An Introduction to the Principles which Govern Its Right Use

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C.C. Birchard, 1902 - 447 Seiten
 

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Seite 159 - Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro...
Seite 434 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to...
Seite 131 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling...
Seite 21 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Seite 158 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory, Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Seite 131 - I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses; I linger by my shingly bars; I loiter round my cresses ; • And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Seite 392 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
Seite 93 - Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars ? List to the yarn, as my grandmother's father the sailor told it to me.
Seite 421 - The pale purple even Melts around thy flight ; Like a star of heaven, In the broad daylight, Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight.
Seite 420 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.

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