The Silver-Burdett Readers: First-fifth book, Book 5Silver, Burdett, 1906 - Readers |
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... body and sat upright in his bed . He saw them now about him . There was no gray mist before them , as there had been sometimes in the night . He knew them every one , and called them by their names . " And who is this ? Is this my old ...
... body and sat upright in his bed . He saw them now about him . There was no gray mist before them , as there had been sometimes in the night . He knew them every one , and called them by their names . " And who is this ? Is this my old ...
Page 45
... body quivering and thrilling with the outpour of his music . Then he would drop softly from twig to twig , until the lowest limb was reached , when he would rise , fluttering and leaping through the branches , his song never ceasing for ...
... body quivering and thrilling with the outpour of his music . Then he would drop softly from twig to twig , until the lowest limb was reached , when he would rise , fluttering and leaping through the branches , his song never ceasing for ...
Page 59
... bodies always in motion : busy over their little matters with that ceaseless energy of boyhood which could move the world could it but be concentrated and conserved . They were all over the place : in the orchard rob- bing birds ' nests ...
... bodies always in motion : busy over their little matters with that ceaseless energy of boyhood which could move the world could it but be concentrated and conserved . They were all over the place : in the orchard rob- bing birds ' nests ...
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... body , -in fact a trench he had himself made on a former occasion , — and when lying in this on his back , his breast was about on a level with the sur- rounding turf . - - His object in asking Guapo to accompany him with the horses was ...
... body , -in fact a trench he had himself made on a former occasion , — and when lying in this on his back , his breast was about on a level with the sur- rounding turf . - - His object in asking Guapo to accompany him with the horses was ...
Page 93
... body for joy . But Bantam was the great ob- ject of interest : all wanted to mount him at once , and it was with some difficulty that John arranged that they should ride by turns , and the eldest should ride first . Off they set at last ...
... body for joy . But Bantam was the great ob- ject of interest : all wanted to mount him at once , and it was with some difficulty that John arranged that they should ride by turns , and the eldest should ride first . Off they set at last ...
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Page 356 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Page 257 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 222 - Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre ! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget - lest we forget...
Page 143 - Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in mind ; Thrice thirty thousand foes before, And the broad flood behind. " Down with him ! " cried false Sextus, With a smile on his pale face. "Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena,
Page 34 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low- vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 95 - 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...
Page 34 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 307 - ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house 'at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
Page 353 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 144 - No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank ; But friends and foes in dumb surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank. And when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer.