Henry Augustus Coit: First Rector of Saint Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire |
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Page 61 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade. And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Page 61 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the iles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs; they on the trading flood Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape Ply stemming nightly toward the pole:
Page 61 - See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbl'd notes the summer long; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees' industrious murmur, oft invites To studious musing; there Ilissus rolls His whispering stream.
Page 84 - Had he his hurts before?" Ross. "Ay, on the front." SIWARD. "Why then, God's soldier be he! Had I as many sons as I have hairs, I would not wish them to a fairer death.
Page 61 - Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs; they on the trading flood Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape Ply stemming nightly toward the pole: so seemed Par off the flying Fiend.
Page 114 - This day my Saviour rose, And did enclose this light for His: That, as each beast his manger knows, Man might not of his fodder miss. Christ hath took in this piece of ground, And made a garden there for those Who want herbs for their wound.
Page 114 - BRIGHT shadows of true rest! some shoots of blisse; Heaven once a week; The next world's gladnesse prepossest in this; A day to seek Eternity in time; the steps by which We climb above all ages; lamps that light Man through his heap of dark days; and the rich And full redemption of the whole week's flight!
Page 62 - In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched On the soft grass through half a summer's day. With music lulled his indolent repose: And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own
Page 98 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what His word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Page 77 - Expel Greek and Latin from your schools and you confine the views of the existing generation to themselves and their immediate predecessors; you will cut off so many centuries of the world's experience, and place us in the same state as if the human race had first come into existence in the year 1500.