Chambers's supplementary reader, selected from Miscellany of instructive and entertaining tracts, Ausgabe 5 |
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Seite 28 - Such fate to suffering worth is given, To misery's brink, Till wrenched of every stay but Heaven, By human pride or cunning driven, He, ruined, sink! Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, That fate is thine—no distant date ; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom ! Full on thy bloom,
Seite 31 - Chillon ! thy prison is a holy place, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod— And thy sad floor an altar; for
Seite 27 - TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY, ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH IN APRIL 1786. WEE, modest, crimson-tipped flower, Thoti's met me in an evil hour ; For I
Seite 21 - Its sweetness all is of my native land; And e'en its fragrant leaf has not its mate Among the perfumes which the rich and great Buy from the odours of the spicy East. You love your flowers and plants, and will you hate The little four-leaved rose that I love best, That freshest will awake, and sweetest go to rest
Seite 17 - instantaneously produced, was generally durable. When employed to tame an outrageous animal, he directed the stable in which he and the object of the experiment were placed to be shut, with orders not to open the door until a signal was given. After a
Seite 22 - THE DAISY. The daisy, fresh from Nature's sleep, Tells of His hand in lines as clear. NOT worlds on worlds in phalanx deep, Need we to prove a God is here ; Wondrous alike in all He tries, For who but He who arched the skies, And pours the dayspring's living flood, Could raise the daisy's purple bud ! Mould its green cup, its wiry stem, Its fringed border nicely spin,
Seite 18 - Fanned in your loveliness by every breeze, And shaded o'er by green and arching trees : I often wish that I were one of you, Dwelling afar upon the grassy leas— I love ye all! Beautiful watchers ! day and night ye wake ! The
Seite 31 - this attitude, having taken a survey of the road, they slide down with the swiftness of a meteor. In the meantime, all that the rider has to do is to keep himself fast on the saddle, without checking the rein, for the least motion is sufficient to destroy the equilibrium of the ass, in which case both must inevitably perish. But their address in this
Seite 25 - So sweetly and so cool. The hawthorn clusters bloom above, The primrose hides below, And on the lonely passer-by A modest glance doth throw ! The humble primrose' bonnie face I meet it everywhere; Where other flowers disdain to bloom, It comes and nestles there. Like God's own light, on every place In glory it doth fall: —PERCIVAL.
Seite 20 - Stay, stay, Until the hastening day Has run But to the even-song; And having prayed together, we Will go with you along ! We have short time to stay as you ; We have as short a spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you or anything : We die, As your hours do; and dry Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning dew, Ne'er to be found again. Away