The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on Elocution ...: With Biographical Sketches, and Copious Notes: Adapted to the Use of Students in Literature, Book 5A.S. Barnes & Company, 1871 - 581 pages |
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... PASSING AWAY ! PASSING AWAY ! " PIERPONT . REV . JOHN PIERPONT , author of the " Airs of Palestine , " was born at Litch- field , Connecticut , April 6th , 1785. He entered Yale College when fifteen years old , graduated in 1804 , and ...
... PASSING AWAY ! PASSING AWAY ! " PIERPONT . REV . JOHN PIERPONT , author of the " Airs of Palestine , " was born at Litch- field , Connecticut , April 6th , 1785. He entered Yale College when fifteen years old , graduated in 1804 , and ...
Page 401
... passed away , And left no shadow of their loveliness On the dead waste of life . That specter lifts The coffin - lid of Hope , and Joy , and Love , And , bending mournfully above the pale , Sweet forms that slumber there , scatters dead ...
... passed away , And left no shadow of their loveliness On the dead waste of life . That specter lifts The coffin - lid of Hope , and Joy , and Love , And , bending mournfully above the pale , Sweet forms that slumber there , scatters dead ...
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... passed his boyhood to his thir teenth year , and became perfectly conversant with frontier life . At that early age he entered Yale College , where he remained three years , when he obtained a midshipman's commission and entered the ...
... passed his boyhood to his thir teenth year , and became perfectly conversant with frontier life . At that early age he entered Yale College , where he remained three years , when he obtained a midshipman's commission and entered the ...
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