Literature Reader, Volume 6California state printing office, 1916 - Children's literature |
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... Wonderful City Romance of the Swan's Nest April Rain . A Child's Dream of a Star Samuel Taylor Coleridge Clark Ashton Smith Thomas Babington Macaulay PAGE Charles Kingsley 17 63 Leroy E. Armstrong 73 . Charles Kingsley 78 Sir Walter ...
... Wonderful City Romance of the Swan's Nest April Rain . A Child's Dream of a Star Samuel Taylor Coleridge Clark Ashton Smith Thomas Babington Macaulay PAGE Charles Kingsley 17 63 Leroy E. Armstrong 73 . Charles Kingsley 78 Sir Walter ...
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... Wonderful Ram Words : renown , adventure , wondrous , bore , cloud - nymph , ' sacri- ficed , altar , madness , dolphin , fulfilled , straits , kinsfolk . Questions : In what country were Phrixus and Helle born ? Where do we now think ...
... Wonderful Ram Words : renown , adventure , wondrous , bore , cloud - nymph , ' sacri- ficed , altar , madness , dolphin , fulfilled , straits , kinsfolk . Questions : In what country were Phrixus and Helle born ? Where do we now think ...
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... wonderful Yosemite Valley and the Big Trees . While in San Francisco he took a bad cold , which soon developed into pleurisy . Seeking sunshine and drier air , he went at once . to Colorado Springs near Denver . He was so delighted ...
... wonderful Yosemite Valley and the Big Trees . While in San Francisco he took a bad cold , which soon developed into pleurisy . Seeking sunshine and drier air , he went at once . to Colorado Springs near Denver . He was so delighted ...
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... Wonderful ! but are there in that country tame animals which live on the grass and green herbs ? ' ' " Very many , and of many kinds . " " Ay , that must be the cause , " said the chief , " for the sake of those innocent animals , the ...
... Wonderful ! but are there in that country tame animals which live on the grass and green herbs ? ' ' " Very many , and of many kinds . " " Ay , that must be the cause , " said the chief , " for the sake of those innocent animals , the ...
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... wonderful man , a perfect miracle of knowledge ; he is worth all the wealth of the Indies . " " Well , " inquired the professors , " tell us the particulars . " " Why , " the Ambassador replied , " I held up one finger , denoting there ...
... wonderful man , a perfect miracle of knowledge ; he is worth all the wealth of the Indies . " " Well , " inquired the professors , " tell us the particulars . " " Why , " the Ambassador replied , " I held up one finger , denoting there ...
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Page 146 - Never gave the enraptured air) There was a rustling that seemed like a bustling Of merry crowds justling at pitching and hustling, Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering, Little hands clapping, and little tongues chattering; And, like fowls in a farm-yard when barley is scattering, Out came the children running. All the little boys and girls, With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls, And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls, Tripping and skipping, ran merrily after The wonderful music with shouting...
Page 110 - The stout mate thought of home; a spray Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. "What shall I say, brave Adm'r'l, say, If we sight naught but seas at dawn?" "Why, you shall say, at break of day: 'Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!
Page 350 - OFT I had heard of Lucy Gray : And, when I crossed the wild, I chanced to see at break of day The solitary Child. No mate, no comrade Lucy knew ; She dwelt on a wide moor, — The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door ! You yet may spy the fawn at play, The hare upon the green ; But the sweet face of Lucy Gray Will never more be seen. " To-night will be a stormy night — You to the town must go ; And take a lantern, Child, to light Your mother through the snow.
Page 371 - So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God : and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Page 333 - That rises after the sun goes down. It was one by the village clock When he galloped into Lexington. He saw the gilded weathercock Swim in the moonlight as he passed, And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare, Gaze at him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. It was two by the village clock When he came to the bridge in Concord town.
Page 330 - and with muffled oar Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, Just as the moon rose over the bay, Where swinging wide at her moorings lay The Somerset, British man-of-war ; A phantom ship, with each mast and spar Across the moon like a prison bar, And a huge black hulk, that was magnified By its own reflection in the tide.
Page 335 - ... steel-tipped, ordered lines. Hats off! The colors before us fly; But more than the flag is passing by.
Page 119 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free ! The ocean eagle soared From his nest by the white wave's foam; And the rocking pines of the forest roared — This was their welcome home...
Page 360 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one!
Page 371 - Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him ; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.