Method in Education: A Text-book for TeachersAmerican book Company, 1899 - 348 pages |
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Page 156 - Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldst walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.
Page 161 - They saw the snowy mountains roll'd, And heaved along the nameless lands Like mighty billows, saw the gold Of awful sunsets, saw the blush Of sudden dawn, and felt the hush Of heaven when the day sat down, And hid his face in dusky hands ; Then pitch'd the tent, where rivers run As if to drown the fallen sun.
Page 158 - MAPLE LEAVES OCTOBER turned my maple's leaves to gold ; The most are gone now ; here and there one lingers : Soon these will slip from out the twigs' weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.
Page 157 - Look, out of line one tall corn-captain stands Advanced beyond the foremost of his bands, And waves his blades upon the very edge And hottest thicket of the battling hedge.
Page 157 - Contests with stolid vehemence The march of culture, setting limb and thorn As pikes against the army of the corn. There, while I pause, my fieldward-faring eyes Take harvests, where the stately corn-ranks rise, Of inward dignities And large benignities and insights wise, Graces and modest majesties.
Page 291 - There can be no more appropriate moment for a brief lesson in expression than the moment when 'the pupil has something he is trying to express. A recitation in another branch may easily undo all that a set exercise in English has accomplished. In order that both teacher and pupil may attach due importance to this incidental instruction in English, the pupil's standing in any subject should depend, in part, on his use...
Page 156 - If I could put my woods in song, And tell what's there enjoyed, All men would to my gardens throng, And leave the cities void. In my plot no tulips blow, — Snow-loving pines and oaks instead; And rank the savage maples grow From spring's faint flush to autumn red. My garden is a forest ledge Which older forests bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound. Here once the Deluge ploughed...
Page 160 - From its fields of purpling flowers Still wet with fragrant showers, The happy South Wind lingering sweeps the royal blooms of June.
Page 160 - I HEARD the woodpecker pecking, The bluebird tenderly sing ; I turned and looked out of my window, And lo, it was spring ! A breath from tropical borders, Just a ripple, flowed into my room, And washed my face clean of its sadness, Blew my heart into bloom. The loves I have kept for a lifetime, Sweet buds I have shielded from snow, Break forth into full leaf and tassel When spring winds do blow. For the sap of my life goes upward, Obeying the same sweet law That waters the heart of the maple After...
Page 8 - teaching is simply helping the mind to perform its function of knowing and growing...