A Sequel to the Gradual ReaderDaniel Burgess & Company, 1852 - 240 sider |
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Side 36
... morning . The want of every thing , and particularly food for herself and sister , made seventy - five cents , the sum which she expected to receive for making the gar- ment , a treasure in her imagination . 14. She hurried off with the ...
... morning . The want of every thing , and particularly food for herself and sister , made seventy - five cents , the sum which she expected to receive for making the gar- ment , a treasure in her imagination . 14. She hurried off with the ...
Side 41
... morning dew ; The one , a plain box from the leaf of a vine , The other , as gay as a gem from the mine . 3. " Thy choice , " said the fairy ; " and on it depends The kind of that beauty I give to my friends ; For know , little maiden ...
... morning dew ; The one , a plain box from the leaf of a vine , The other , as gay as a gem from the mine . 3. " Thy choice , " said the fairy ; " and on it depends The kind of that beauty I give to my friends ; For know , little maiden ...
Side 45
... morning , come early and sing , For dearly I love you , sweet warbler of spring . THE WHITE CLOUD . 1. THUNDER storms are not particularly pleasant things in the woods , but a traveller in the moun- tains is now and then compelled to ...
... morning , come early and sing , For dearly I love you , sweet warbler of spring . THE WHITE CLOUD . 1. THUNDER storms are not particularly pleasant things in the woods , but a traveller in the moun- tains is now and then compelled to ...
Side 47
... morning mist , which obscures the vision and ruffles the spirit , till it prays for one straggling sunbeam to disperse the gloom . But seen at that distance , shone upon by that setting sun , how glorious ! 13. And here , methought , I ...
... morning mist , which obscures the vision and ruffles the spirit , till it prays for one straggling sunbeam to disperse the gloom . But seen at that distance , shone upon by that setting sun , how glorious ! 13. And here , methought , I ...
Side 52
... in bed all a summer's morning , loses the chief pleasure of the day . He that gives up his youth to indolence , undergoes a loss of the same kind . 14. The temperate man's pleasures are durable , because they 52 SEQUEL TO THE.
... in bed all a summer's morning , loses the chief pleasure of the day . He that gives up his youth to indolence , undergoes a loss of the same kind . 14. The temperate man's pleasures are durable , because they 52 SEQUEL TO THE.
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Side 156 - Toilsome and indigent) she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew, And in that charter reads, with sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure in the skies.
Side 164 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Side 230 - I cry aloud to all and sundry in my plainest accents and at the very tiptop of my voice. Here it is, gentlemen ! Here is the good liquor...
Side 234 - The husband and wife, drinking deep of peaceful joy — a calm bliss of temperate affections shall pass hand in hand through life and lie down not reluctantly at its protracted close. To them the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams, nor the future an eternity of such moments as follow the delirium of the drunkard. Their dead faces shall express what their spirits were and are to be by a lingering smile of memory and hope.
Side 71 - ... it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Side 198 - The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread.
Side 229 - town treasurer" is rightfully mine, as guardian of the best treasure that the town has. The overseers of the poor ought to make me their chairman, since I provide bountifully for the pauper, without expense to him that pays taxes.
Side 33 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Side 72 - It is pleasant to be virtuous and good ; because that is to excel many others : it is pleasant to grow better; because that is to excel ourselves: it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order, within the bounds of reason and religion ; because this is empire : nay, it is pleasant even to mortify and subdue our lusts , because that is victory.
Side 31 - E'en on the edge that wrought her death Dying she breathes her sweetest breath, As if to token, in her fall, Peace to her foes, and love to all.