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... light wrought bright Exceptions - draught , drought , height , sleight . They thought the light was too bright . What have you bought to - night ? Did you hear the horse neigh when it was caught ? The roof ought not to be so high . I ...
... light wrought bright Exceptions - draught , drought , height , sleight . They thought the light was too bright . What have you bought to - night ? Did you hear the horse neigh when it was caught ? The roof ought not to be so high . I ...
Page 51
... light . The chief is expected to 2- his followers . We traced distinctly the 1 of their footsteps . We were served with dainties 5- for a prince . The 10- is slowly ascending the mountain . ( 1. ) Muse , Mews , ( 2. ) PART II . 51.
... light . The chief is expected to 2- his followers . We traced distinctly the 1 of their footsteps . We were served with dainties 5- for a prince . The 10- is slowly ascending the mountain . ( 1. ) Muse , Mews , ( 2. ) PART II . 51.
Page 66
... light of the moon throws a pale hue across the scene . ( 6. ) Throne , | The ornaments of the throne - room were torn Thrown , down and thrown about . ( 7. ) To , Too , Two , ( 8. ) Toe , Tow , ( 9. ) Ton , Tun , ( 10. ) Trait , Tray ...
... light of the moon throws a pale hue across the scene . ( 6. ) Throne , | The ornaments of the throne - room were torn Thrown , down and thrown about . ( 7. ) To , Too , Two , ( 8. ) Toe , Tow , ( 9. ) Ton , Tun , ( 10. ) Trait , Tray ...
Page 67
... light a new 10- in his character . The milk , when taken from the 12— , was placed in shallow 10 - s . The death of the earl will 5— a gloom over 2— meeting . The Queen having taken her place on the 6- , the proceedings began . 3 ...
... light a new 10- in his character . The milk , when taken from the 12— , was placed in shallow 10 - s . The death of the earl will 5— a gloom over 2— meeting . The Queen having taken her place on the 6- , the proceedings began . 3 ...
Page 83
... light is still a 13 - point . Two men were found poaching on the 9- yesterday . The men were huddled together in a 11- . You have done nothing to 8 , - or even to 6- , the respect of your friends . The class is 3 with its 6- than usual ...
... light is still a 13 - point . Two men were found poaching on the 9- yesterday . The men were huddled together in a 11- . You have done nothing to 8 , - or even to 6- , the respect of your friends . The class is 3 with its 6- than usual ...
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Page 174 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor...
Page 161 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Page 167 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire, Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre...
Page 163 - 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 176 - Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With scented breath, and look so like a smile, Seems as it issues from the shapeless mould, An emanation of the indwelling Life, A visible token of the upholding Love, That are the soul of this wide universe.
Page 150 - He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
Page 171 - The grand transition, that there lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God.
Page 150 - Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough: Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the Purpose; so by Diligence shall we do more with less Perplexity. Sloth makes all Things difficult, but Industry all easy...
Page 176 - E'er wore his crown as loftily as he Wears the green coronal of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With scented breath, and look so like a smile...
Page 171 - Nothing can be more imposing than the magnificence of English park scenery. Vast lawns that extend like sheets of vivid green, with here and there clumps of gigantic trees, heaping up rich piles of foliage: the solemn pomp of groves and woodland glades, with the deer trooping in silent herds across them...