The Revised Lesson Book for Standard I(-vi) of the Revised Code of the Committee of Council on EducationSimpkin Marshall, 1864 |
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... fear the rod ; The stormy working soul spits lies and froth . Dare to be true . Nothing can need a lie . A fault , which needs it most , grows two thereby . When thou dost purpose aught within thy power , Be sure to do it , though it be ...
... fear the rod ; The stormy working soul spits lies and froth . Dare to be true . Nothing can need a lie . A fault , which needs it most , grows two thereby . When thou dost purpose aught within thy power , Be sure to do it , though it be ...
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... fears to do ill , sets himself to task : Who fears to do well , sure should wear a mask . By all means use sometimes to ... fear . But love is lost , the way of friendship's gone , Tho ' David had his Jonathan , Christ his John . GEORGE ...
... fears to do ill , sets himself to task : Who fears to do well , sure should wear a mask . By all means use sometimes to ... fear . But love is lost , the way of friendship's gone , Tho ' David had his Jonathan , Christ his John . GEORGE ...
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... fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway , It is enthronéd in the hearts of kings , It is an attribute to God himself ; And earthly power doth then show likest God's , When mercy seasons justice . Therefore , Jew , Though ...
... fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway , It is enthronéd in the hearts of kings , It is an attribute to God himself ; And earthly power doth then show likest God's , When mercy seasons justice . Therefore , Jew , Though ...
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... fears , and death , Thy goodness I'll adore ; And praise thee for thy mercies past , And humbly hope for more . My life , if Thou preservest my life , Thy sacrifice shall be ; And death , when death shall be my docm , Shall join my soul ...
... fears , and death , Thy goodness I'll adore ; And praise thee for thy mercies past , And humbly hope for more . My life , if Thou preservest my life , Thy sacrifice shall be ; And death , when death shall be my docm , Shall join my soul ...
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... fear no ill ; For thou , O Lord , art with me still : Thy friendly crook shall give me aid , And guide me through the dreadful shade Though in a bare and rugged way , Through devious lonely wilds I stray , Thy bounty shall my pains ...
... fear no ill ; For thou , O Lord , art with me still : Thy friendly crook shall give me aid , And guide me through the dreadful shade Though in a bare and rugged way , Through devious lonely wilds I stray , Thy bounty shall my pains ...
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accent ANDREW MARVEL BATTLE OF BLENHEIM beauty beneath birds bone BORN breath called cheerful clouds cried dark death delight DIED divine doth dread earth eternal eyes faint falling father fear fire Gil Blas give grave hand happiness head hear heart heaven hill honour horse humour HYMN Indians inflection JAMES THOMSON JOHN MILTON JOSEPH ADDISON labour land light living look Lord mercy mind morning mountain nature never night o'er OLIVER GOLDSMITH pain pause peace pendulum pleasure Poor Richard says POOR RICHARD'S MAXIMS praise prayer Principal Works.-The reason religion replied rest revenge ROBERT SOUTHEY rope round SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE shade silent sleep song soul South Stack spirit stranger sweet thee thine things THOMAS GRAY thou hast thought THRALE tion tree truth turn vale virtue voice wandering WILLIAM COWPER William Penn winds wings words young
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Page 86 - Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 149 - THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior!
Page 21 - It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Page 77 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 36 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Page 55 - How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep; forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Page 121 - Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain— Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon?
Page 27 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our Great Maker still new praise. Ye Mists and Exhalations that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's Great Author rise...
Page 27 - Join voices all ye living Souls: Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep; Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill, or valley, fountain or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light dispels...
Page 131 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.