The American School Readers: Primer, [First- reader], Book 5Macmillan Company, 1912 - Readers |
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... fell upon a person who seemed the laziest , and heaviest , and most torpid of all those lazy and heavy and torpid people who had lain down to sleep in the shade . Who should it be , again , but the image of Mr. Toil ! 66 " There is a ...
... fell upon a person who seemed the laziest , and heaviest , and most torpid of all those lazy and heavy and torpid people who had lain down to sleep in the shade . Who should it be , again , but the image of Mr. Toil ! 66 " There is a ...
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... fell in a night attack upon the Turkish camp , August 20 , 1823 , and ex- pired in the moment of victory . His last words were , " To die for liberty is a pleasure , and not a pain . " At midnight , in his guarded tent , The Turk was ...
... fell in a night attack upon the Turkish camp , August 20 , 1823 , and ex- pired in the moment of victory . His last words were , " To die for liberty is a pleasure , and not a pain . " At midnight , in his guarded tent , The Turk was ...
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... fell , Bleeding at every vein . His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah , And the red field was won ; Then saw in death his eyelids close 45 Calmly , as a night's repose , Like flowers at set of sun . Come ...
... fell , Bleeding at every vein . His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah , And the red field was won ; Then saw in death his eyelids close 45 Calmly , as a night's repose , Like flowers at set of sun . Come ...
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... fell on her knees by the side of the inanimate 3 Louisa , tearing from the person of her friend , with an instinctive1 readiness , such parts of her dress as might obstruct her respiration , 5 and encouraging their only safeguard , the ...
... fell on her knees by the side of the inanimate 3 Louisa , tearing from the person of her friend , with an instinctive1 readiness , such parts of her dress as might obstruct her respiration , 5 and encouraging their only safeguard , the ...
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... fell directly before the mastiff . There was a moment of fearful cries and struggles ; but they ended almost as soon as commenced by the cub appearing in the Undaunted , not afraid . 1 air , hurled from the jaws of Brave with a 28.
... fell directly before the mastiff . There was a moment of fearful cries and struggles ; but they ended almost as soon as commenced by the cub appearing in the Undaunted , not afraid . 1 air , hurled from the jaws of Brave with a 28.
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Page 301 - O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells: Rise up — for you the flag is flung — for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths — for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck You've fallen cold and dead.
Page 116 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 1 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 302 - Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will...
Page 190 - Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed Each horseman drew his battle-blade, And furious every charger neighed To join the dreadful revelry.
Page 148 - 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, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise...
Page 189 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden, saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 439 - This is the interpretation of the thing ; MENE ; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL ; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES ; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Page 74 - Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar." One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall door and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur! They'll have fleet steeds that follow!
Page 276 - Eat, eat, eat the burnt pig, father, only taste — O Lord !" — with such-like barbarous ejaculations, cramming all the while as if he would choke. Ho-ti trembled in every joint while he grasped the abominable thing, wavering whether he should not put his son to death for an unnatural young monster, when the crackling scorching his fingers, as it had done his son's, and applying the same remedy to them, he in his turn tasted some of its flavor, which, make what sour mouths he would for a pretence,...