Everyday Classics: Primer-eighth Reader, Book 6Macmillan, 1920 - Readers The Everyday classics are a series of school readers basued upon a valid principle and a vital need. The principle is that there is a considerable body of good literature which is simple enough to be understood and enjoyed by children. It is of good value to read stories like these childhood to be retained as an influence upon one's on attitude towards life. The need for such a series is seen in the fact that many children are put in touch with so little of this common heritage. |
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... answered the stranger , calmly . " But , from my cradle upwards , it has been my busi- ness , and almost my pastime , to deal with serpents 10 and dragons . " The young women looked at his massive club , and at the shaggy lion's skin ...
... answered the stranger , calmly . " But , from my cradle upwards , it has been my busi- ness , and almost my pastime , to deal with serpents 10 and dragons . " The young women looked at his massive club , and at the shaggy lion's skin ...
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... answered one of the damsels . " You must talk with this Old Man of the Sea . He knows all about the garden 10 of the Hesperides ; for it is situated in an island which he is in the habit of visiting . " Hercules then asked whereabouts ...
... answered one of the damsels . " You must talk with this Old Man of the Sea . He knows all about the garden 10 of the Hesperides ; for it is situated in an island which he is in the habit of visiting . " Hercules then asked whereabouts ...
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... answer any impertinent questions . But , as Hercules held on so stubbornly , he finally thought it best to reappear in his own figure . So there he was again , a fishy , scaly , web - footed sort of personage , 15 with something like a ...
... answer any impertinent questions . But , as Hercules held on so stubbornly , he finally thought it best to reappear in his own figure . So there he was again , a fishy , scaly , web - footed sort of personage , 15 with something like a ...
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... answered Hercules . " But can you show me the way to the garden of the Hesperides ? " " What do you want there ? " asked the giant . " I want three of the golden apples , " shouted Hercules , " for my cousin , the king . " " There is ...
... answered Hercules . " But can you show me the way to the garden of the Hesperides ? " " What do you want there ? " asked the giant . " I want three of the golden apples , " shouted Hercules , " for my cousin , the king . " " There is ...
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... answered the giant , shrugging his shoulders . " But it gets to be a little burdensome after a thousand years ! " " And how long a time , " asked the hero , " will it take 15 you to get the golden apples ? " 20 " Oh , that will be done ...
... answered the giant , shrugging his shoulders . " But it gets to be a little burdensome after a thousand years ! " " And how long a time , " asked the hero , " will it take 15 you to get the golden apples ? " 20 " Oh , that will be done ...
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Page 128 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord...
Page 329 - At half past nine by the meet'n'-house clock,— Just the hour of the Earthquake shock! —What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground! You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once,— All at once, and nothing first,— Just as bubbles do when they burst.
Page 314 - May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof The stars peep behind her and peer ; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees...
Page 271 - Liberty first, and Union afterwards, — but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable," God grant it, — God grant it!
Page 313 - I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 102 - And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
Page 100 - Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him : and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
Page 127 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 262 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set today a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die,...
Page 271 - Union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original luster, not a stripe erased or polluted, not a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as '