The Jones First [-fifth] Reader, Libro 5Ginn & Company, 1903 |
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... story of Western life from which this selection is taken , the author relates an attempt , by a band of Mormons , to carry off the heroine by force . She is rescued by John Brent and his friends . We were off , we three , on our gallop ...
... story of Western life from which this selection is taken , the author relates an attempt , by a band of Mormons , to carry off the heroine by force . She is rescued by John Brent and his friends . We were off , we three , on our gallop ...
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... amount.- birthright : this refers to the Bible story in which Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage . See Genesis xxv . 27-34 . 15 20 HELVELLYN WALTER SCOTT SIR WALTER SCOTT was born in Edinburgh THE FIFTH READER 27.
... amount.- birthright : this refers to the Bible story in which Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage . See Genesis xxv . 27-34 . 15 20 HELVELLYN WALTER SCOTT SIR WALTER SCOTT was born in Edinburgh THE FIFTH READER 27.
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... Story Tellers , " from which this selection is taken , was written for young people . — NOTE . The book of which Mr. Mitchell here tells the story was written by a French woman , Madame Cottin . 5 Siberia is a country of great wastes ...
... Story Tellers , " from which this selection is taken , was written for young people . — NOTE . The book of which Mr. Mitchell here tells the story was written by a French woman , Madame Cottin . 5 Siberia is a country of great wastes ...
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... story of her toil , of her bleeding feet , of her encounters with rude plunderers , her struggles with storm and snow . There were great stretches of silent forest ; there were broad rivers to cross ; there were gloomy ravines to pass ...
... story of her toil , of her bleeding feet , of her encounters with rude plunderers , her struggles with storm and snow . There were great stretches of silent forest ; there were broad rivers to cross ; there were gloomy ravines to pass ...
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... story with amazement . And her story spread , and made other well wishers aid , until at last she came to the feet of the emperor . They knew - all of them the tale she 10 had to tell ; and the eyes of all pleaded so strongly that her ...
... story with amazement . And her story spread , and made other well wishers aid , until at last she came to the feet of the emperor . They knew - all of them the tale she 10 had to tell ; and the eyes of all pleaded so strongly that her ...
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Abridged American Anchises arms azalea battle beauty bells birds Boabdil born brave Brutus Cæsar called cannon cloud dark death deep Don Quixote earth England English eyes famous feet fell fire flower French friends gray ground hand hast hath head heard heart heaven HENRY TIMROD hill honor Hoopoe horse hour human JOAQUIN MILLER king land Lars Porsena light live look Lord marsh marshes of Glynn morning mountain never night noble NOTE o'er once passed peace Peisthetairus Pickwick poems poet RALPH WALDO EMERSON rolling sail Sancho Panza scene Scrooge selection is taken smile soul sound Spain Spanish spirit stood story sweet sword thee things THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thou thought tongue trees tube turned voice waves WILLIAM WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILSON FLAGG wind woods word young
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Página 135 - But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride ; And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail : And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Página 362 - If you have tears prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii : Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Página 494 - Pr'ythee, lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny : 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Página 79 - Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing. Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
Página 318 - MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Página 464 - A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Página 271 - Then they rode back, but not, Not the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them...
Página 182 - An hour passed on — the Turk awoke; That bright dream was his last; He woke — to hear his sentries shriek, "To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek!
Página 134 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Página 360 - He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man.