Chambers's national reading-books, Bücher 4 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 109 - blow. 3. Britannia needs no bulwark, No towers along the steep : Her march is o'er the mountain-waves, Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak, She quells the floods below— As they roar on the shore, When the stormy tempests blow : When the battle rages loud and long, And
Seite 55 - INFLUENCE OF MUSIC. Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing : To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Everything that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay
Seite 200 - in his morning face ; 200 Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he ; Pull well the busy whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned; Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught,
Seite 79 - And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green; The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours. I must go seek some dew-drops hero, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Seite 199 - Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour, Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train,
Seite 109 - do blow. 4. The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn; Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return. Then, then, ye ocean-warriors ! Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow; When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to
Seite 197 - Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly! To turn imploring famine from the gate; But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend ; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way;
Seite 53 - m ready : It is not for your silver bright, But for your winsome lady •. 6. ' And, by my word, the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry; So, though the waves are raging white, I '11 row you o'er the ferry.' 7. By this the storm grew loud apace, The
Seite 19 - begun, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. 8. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed
Seite 195 - When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more