Introductory English reading bookLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822 - 171 páginas |
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Página 10
... turning day into night , and night into day . That is a bad habit , which often brings on illness and pain , and sometimes even makes folk die sooner than they might have died else . When we do any thing often , very often , we soon get ...
... turning day into night , and night into day . That is a bad habit , which often brings on illness and pain , and sometimes even makes folk die sooner than they might have died else . When we do any thing often , very often , we soon get ...
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... turns upon hinges . It is kept shut by a latch , which hinders its being blown open by the wind . At night it is ... turn it with pincers , and make it into what they please . You Take care how you go down the steps . Look before you ...
... turns upon hinges . It is kept shut by a latch , which hinders its being blown open by the wind . At night it is ... turn it with pincers , and make it into what they please . You Take care how you go down the steps . Look before you ...
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... turn now . Take care ! Steady , my girl ! Give me your hands , and leap as far as you can A MORNING IN SPRING . Lo ! the bright , the rosy morning , Calls us forth to take the air ; Cheerful Spring with smiles returning Ushers in the ...
... turn now . Take care ! Steady , my girl ! Give me your hands , and leap as far as you can A MORNING IN SPRING . Lo ! the bright , the rosy morning , Calls us forth to take the air ; Cheerful Spring with smiles returning Ushers in the ...
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... turns a part of it into air , as I told you the sun does the dew . I hold this glass tumbler in the vapour , and you ... turning of the steam into water , is called condensation . Can you remember those two hard words , Evapor- ation ...
... turns a part of it into air , as I told you the sun does the dew . I hold this glass tumbler in the vapour , and you ... turning of the steam into water , is called condensation . Can you remember those two hard words , Evapor- ation ...
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... a barrel , fixed on a stand , and having a winch or handle by which it may be turned round , or into a kind of covered pail , having a long stick to pull up and down through a hole in its cover . By the quick turning 18 INTRODUCTORY.
... a barrel , fixed on a stand , and having a winch or handle by which it may be turned round , or into a kind of covered pail , having a long stick to pull up and down through a hole in its cover . By the quick turning 18 INTRODUCTORY.
Términos y frases comunes
animals barley beautiful bee bread bees birds bless bloom bread breath bricks called Charles cheer cloth colour cows dear children dear mama death delightful door earth eyes father feet flowers fruit garden give grass green ground grows hammer hand hear heart heat heaven hive insects iron jessamine kind L'Ami des Enfans labour laburnum leaves LESSON live look Lord mama mamma Mary meadow milk morning Mount Lebanon nature night NOSEGAY o'er papa perly pheasants Philip pieces plant pleasure praise pretty purple violet queen bee rice pudding rich rise rock salt rose sabbath seeds sheep shining sleep song spring stone Sweden sweet tell thee thing thou tivated tree turn vale voice walk warm wild William wings winter Wise wish wood words
Pasajes populares
Página 135 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight. Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Página 76 - See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold?
Página 135 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Página 35 - How fair is the rose ! what a beautiful flower ! The glory of April and May ! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day.
Página 141 - HOW doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...
Página 104 - Conceal'd, and fattens with the richest sap ; These are not wanting ; nor the milky drove Luxuriant, spread o'er all the lowing vale ; Nor bleating mountains...
Página 103 - For him the spring Distils her dews, and from the silken gem Its lucid leaves unfolds; for him the hand Of autumn tinges every fertile branch With blooming gold, and blushes like the morn.
Página 103 - Each passing hour sheds tribute from her wings ; And still new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him. Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow, not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence, not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends, but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure, unreproved...
Página 166 - But chiefly man the day of rest enjoys. Hail, SABBATH ! thee I hail, the poor man's day! On other days, the man of toil is...
Página 34 - If we had been ducks we might dabble in mud ; Or dogs, we might play till it ended in blood ; So foul and so fierce are their natures : But Thomas and William, and such pretty names, Should be cleanly and harmless as doves or as lambs, Those lovely sweet innocent creatures.