Brooks's Readers: First-[eighth] yearAmerican Book Company, 1907 - 360 páginas |
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Página 14
... round and round the paper which held my dinner , while I kept the latter closed , and dodged and played at bopeep with it ; and when at last I held still a piece of cheese between my thumb and finger , it came and nibbled it , sitting ...
... round and round the paper which held my dinner , while I kept the latter closed , and dodged and played at bopeep with it ; and when at last I held still a piece of cheese between my thumb and finger , it came and nibbled it , sitting ...
Página 18
... round and round me , nearer and nearer , till within four or five feet , pretending broken wings and legs , to attract my attention and get off her young , who would have already taken up their march , with faint , wiry peep , single ...
... round and round me , nearer and nearer , till within four or five feet , pretending broken wings and legs , to attract my attention and get off her young , who would have already taken up their march , with faint , wiry peep , single ...
Página 33
... round his shoulders like a peddler . 66 Welcome , welcome , Moses ! Well , my boy , what have you brought us from the fair ? " " I have brought you myself , " said Moses , with a sly look , and resting the box on the dresser . " Ay ...
... round his shoulders like a peddler . 66 Welcome , welcome , Moses ! Well , my boy , what have you brought us from the fair ? " " I have brought you myself , " said Moses , with a sly look , and resting the box on the dresser . " Ay ...
Página 36
... round with rugged mountains The fair Lake Constance lies ; In her blue heart reflected , Shine back the starry skies ; And watching each white cloudlet Float silently and slow , You think a piece of heaven Lies on our earth below ...
... round with rugged mountains The fair Lake Constance lies ; In her blue heart reflected , Shine back the starry skies ; And watching each white cloudlet Float silently and slow , You think a piece of heaven Lies on our earth below ...
Página 38
... With anxious faces , one by one The women gathered round ; All talk of flax , or spinning , Or work was put away ; The very children seemed afraid To go alone to play . One day , out in the meadow With strangers from 38.
... With anxious faces , one by one The women gathered round ; All talk of flax , or spinning , Or work was put away ; The very children seemed afraid To go alone to play . One day , out in the meadow With strangers from 38.
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Alice Cary arms asked began Bell of Atri bells bird breast Bregenz Brutus Cæsar captain castle child cold cried Czar dark Davis Strait door elder English Eppie eyes face father feet fell fire flowers France friends Gavroche green hand Hans Christian Andersen hath head hear heard heart Hervé Riel hole honorable icebergs knew Lafayette land Little Gavroche live looked Marquis de Lafayette morning mother mountain never night noble Nolan o'er Odense OLIVER GOLDSMITH ouzel passed play poor Rip Van Winkle river rock round seemed ship shout Silas Silas Deane Silas Marner silent sleep Socrates song speak stone stood story sweet tact talk tell thee things thou thought tink told took turned village voice W. M. THACKERAY wind woods words young
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Página 150 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Página 226 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend ; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know...
Página 227 - Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Página 208 - Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells ! How it swells! How it dwells On the future ! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells — To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
Página 224 - 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 59 - But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Página 127 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, : Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round...
Página 205 - At this critical moment, a fresh, comely woman pressed through the throng to get a peep at the gray-bearded man. She had a chubby child in her arms, which, frightened at his looks, began to cry. "Hush, Rip!
Página 168 - Give the word!" But no such word Was ever spoke or heard; For up stood, for out stepped, for in struck amid all these A Captain? A Lieutenant? A Mate — first, second, third? No such man of mark, and meet With his betters to compete! But a simple Breton sailor, pressed by Tourville for the fleet, A poor coasting-pilot he, Herve Riel, the Croisickese. And "What mockery or malice have we here?
Página 185 - IT wAS a summer evening; Old Kaspar's work was done. And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun; And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine. She saw her brother Peterkin Roll something large and round. Which he beside the rivulet In playing there had found; He came to ask what he had found. That was so large and smooth and round. Old Kaspar took it from the boy, Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And...