Reading books, adapted to the requirements of the Revised code, ed. by A.R. Grant. Standard 1-6, Volume 6Alexander Ronald Grant 1870 |
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... Night • On a Lady who Set her Slaves Free . Sierra Leone . · The Slave's Dream . On the Death of Clapperton The West Indies New Zealand . . Pitcairn Islanders A Song of Pitcairn's Island . Tasmania Conclusion Christingles • PAGE · 145 ...
... Night • On a Lady who Set her Slaves Free . Sierra Leone . · The Slave's Dream . On the Death of Clapperton The West Indies New Zealand . . Pitcairn Islanders A Song of Pitcairn's Island . Tasmania Conclusion Christingles • PAGE · 145 ...
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... Night On a Lady who Set her Slaves Free Sierra Leone . The Slave's Dream . On the Death of Clapperton The West Indies New Zealand . Pitcairn Islanders A Song of Pitcairn's Island . Tasmania • • PAGE 145 152 Turner 155 Southey 155 ...
... Night On a Lady who Set her Slaves Free Sierra Leone . The Slave's Dream . On the Death of Clapperton The West Indies New Zealand . Pitcairn Islanders A Song of Pitcairn's Island . Tasmania • • PAGE 145 152 Turner 155 Southey 155 ...
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... Night • On a Lady who Set her Slaves Free Sierra Leone . · The Slave's Dream . On the Death of Clapperton The West Indies New Zealand . Pitcairn Islanders A Song of Pitcairn's Island . Tasmania Conclusion Christingles Hymn of Boyhood ...
... Night • On a Lady who Set her Slaves Free Sierra Leone . · The Slave's Dream . On the Death of Clapperton The West Indies New Zealand . Pitcairn Islanders A Song of Pitcairn's Island . Tasmania Conclusion Christingles Hymn of Boyhood ...
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... night comes , dig a hole in the snow rather deeper than you are high , and wide enough to have a good fire in the centre . Spread branches of trees for your bed , and bring a good bundle of wood to lie by your side , in order to keep up ...
... night comes , dig a hole in the snow rather deeper than you are high , and wide enough to have a good fire in the centre . Spread branches of trees for your bed , and bring a good bundle of wood to lie by your side , in order to keep up ...
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... night hung dark The hills and waters o'er , BRYANT . When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore . Not as the conqueror comes , They , the true - hearted came , Not with the roll of the stirring drums And the ...
... night hung dark The hills and waters o'er , BRYANT . When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore . Not as the conqueror comes , They , the true - hearted came , Not with the roll of the stirring drums And the ...
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Page 6 - THE breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed. And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Page 203 - No sooner had the Almighty ceased but — all The multitude of Angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy — Heaven rung With jubilee, and loud hosannas filled The eternal regions.
Page 203 - Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream...
Page 201 - Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! It answers — Yes. I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu I But was it such ? — It was.
Page 112 - In careless ease my limbs I lay, and woo the cooler wind. I miss thee when by Gunga's stream my twilight steps I guide, But most beneath the lamp's pale beam I miss thee from my side.
Page 202 - Tis now become a history little known, That once we call'd the pastoral house our own. Short-lived possession! But the record fair, That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm, that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced.
Page 202 - Dupe of to-morrow even from a child. Thus many a sad to-morrow came and went, Till, all my stock of infant sorrow spent, I learned at last submission to my lot, But, though I less deplored thee, ne'er forgot.
Page 202 - When, playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers, The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I pricked them into paper with a pin, (And thou wast happier than myself the while, Wouldst softly speak, and stroke my head and smile.) Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here?
Page 204 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ; Thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair ; Thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sit'st above these Heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 197 - SEA-KINGS' daughter from over the sea, Alexandra ! Saxon and Norman and Dane are we, But all of us Danes in our welcome of thee, Alexandra ! Welcome her, thunders of fort and of fleet!