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Pagina 344 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Pagina 433 - Breathes there a man, with soul so dead Who never to himself has said, ' This is my own, my native land...
Pagina 435 - LET dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature too. But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise ; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.
Pagina 440 - Then after we had stayed there three hours or thereabouts, we might perceive the deer appear on the hills round about us (their heads making a show like a wood), which being followed close by the...
Pagina 436 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise, and true perfection ! — Peace, hoa ! The moon sleeps with Endymion, And would not be awaked ! [Music ceases.
Pagina 344 - Yet are ye not, Sporting in tree and air, more beautiful Than the young lambs, that from the valley-side Send a soft bleating like an infant's voice, Half happy, half afraid ! O blessed things ! At sight of this your perfect innocence, The sterner thoughts of manhood melt away Into a mood as mild as woman's dreams.
Pagina 280 - SMALL service is true service while it lasts : Of humblest Friends, bright Creature ! scorn not one : The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun.
Pagina 195 - Soon in smart pain he feels the dire mistake, lashes the wave, and beats the foamy lake ; With sudden rage he now aloft appears, And in his eye convulsive anguish bears ; And now again, impatient of the wound, He rolls and wreathes his shining body round ; Then headlong shoots beneath the dashing tide, The trembling fins the boiling wave divide.
Pagina 96 - I feel confident," continued the Professor with a serious expression, " that there is often a special Providence which draws up the veil of hidden crime. The scene again changes. About a month after the finding of the bodies the landlord of the Castle and Falcon, accompanied by Truthful, started on a walk towards the London Docks, where having business to transact, he entered an office of a wine and spirit merchant. He had not been long engaged on his affairs, when a loud shouting and swearing proclaimed...
Pagina 112 - In autumn, at the partridge makes a flight, And giv'st thy gladder guests the sight; And, in the winter, hunt'st the flying hare, More for thy exercise, than fare; While all, that follow, their glad ears apply To the full greatness of the cry...

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