Graded Literature Readers, Book 8Ida Catherine Bender, Harry Pratt Judson Maynard, Merrill, & Company, 1901 - Readers |
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... SWALLOW - TIME SOHRAB AND RUSTUM VINDICATION OF IRELAND CAIRO FIFTY YEARS AGO SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY . • Robert Louis Stevenson John Keats · William Shakspere Richard Jefferies Richard Lalor Sheil Eliot Bartholomew George War- burton ...
... SWALLOW - TIME SOHRAB AND RUSTUM VINDICATION OF IRELAND CAIRO FIFTY YEARS AGO SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY . • Robert Louis Stevenson John Keats · William Shakspere Richard Jefferies Richard Lalor Sheil Eliot Bartholomew George War- burton ...
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... Swallow - time Louis XI . A Discourse upon Certain Vices and Virtues of Louis the Eleventh First Bunker Hill Ora- tion . A Selection The Storming of Delhi Michael Angelo and Cellini John Milton Miscellaneous : Hearty Reading Norse ...
... Swallow - time Louis XI . A Discourse upon Certain Vices and Virtues of Louis the Eleventh First Bunker Hill Ora- tion . A Selection The Storming of Delhi Michael Angelo and Cellini John Milton Miscellaneous : Hearty Reading Norse ...
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... swallow see far off , as they lean upon the sirocco wind . Let us , for a moment , try to raise ourselves even above 10 the level of their flight , and imagine the Mediterranean lying beneath us like an irregular lake , and all its ...
... swallow see far off , as they lean upon the sirocco wind . Let us , for a moment , try to raise ourselves even above 10 the level of their flight , and imagine the Mediterranean lying beneath us like an irregular lake , and all its ...
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... way the limbs were often broken or dislocated . a long narrow sword . This and the preceding terms applied to the prince on account of his slenderness . Swallow - time BY RICHARD JEFFERIES Richard Jefferies ( 1848-1887.
... way the limbs were often broken or dislocated . a long narrow sword . This and the preceding terms applied to the prince on account of his slenderness . Swallow - time BY RICHARD JEFFERIES Richard Jefferies ( 1848-1887.
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... swallows have come at last with the mid- summer time , and the hay and white clover and warm winds that breathe hotly , like one that has been running uphill ; with the paler hawkweeds , whose edges are so 5 delicately trimmed and cut ...
... swallows have come at last with the mid- summer time , and the hay and white clover and warm winds that breathe hotly , like one that has been running uphill ; with the paler hawkweeds , whose edges are so 5 delicately trimmed and cut ...
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Addison Agincourt Alan Arabian horse arms battle battle of Agincourt beautiful birds bouman brave called Charles the Simple clouds coward Crèvecœur D'Hymbercourt dark dead dear death Delhi door duke Duke of Burgundy earth English Esmond eyes face fall Falstaff father fire French gate guard hand hath head heard heart heaven Henry hills honor horse JOHN MILTON JOHN RUSKIN Joseph Addison King Arthur light live look Lord Louis master Michael Angelo Milton morning mountains never night noble Norse palace pass peace plain poems poet Prince river rock round rush Rustum Shakspere side sing Sir Bedivere Sir Lucan Sir Mordred Sir Roger Sistine Chapel Sohrab soldiers spirit stood swallows sword thee Thor thought thunder tion took trees valley voice wild word youth
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Page 90 - Should I turn upon the true prince? Why, thou knowest. I am as valiant as Hercules ; but beware instinct ; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter ; I was a coward on instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee during my life ; I for a valiant lion, and thou for a true prince.
Page 247 - Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail : And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.
Page 231 - Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy! Find out some uncouth cell Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings...
Page 29 - She smiled, she went up through the surf in the bay. Children dear, was it yesterday? Children dear, were we long alone? "The sea grows stormy, the little ones moan. Long prayers," I said, "in the world they say. Come!
Page 207 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
Page 208 - The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Page 245 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 186 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest ? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened ? or who laid the corner stone, thereof, when, the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 185 - Let our object be, OUR COUNTRY, OUR WHOLE COUNTRY, AND NOTHING BUT OUR COUNTRY. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of Wisdom, of Peace, and of Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever ! STUDIES AND NOTES 1.
Page 207 - I am become a name For always roaming with a hungry heart. Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments Myself not least, but...