The Royal readers. (Roy. sch. ser.). Ser.3. No.1,2 [2 eds.], 4, Volume 6 |
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... England and Scotland . In a Biographical Appendix brief notices are given of the lives of the great men referred to in the lessons , and of the chief authors from whose writings selections have been made . 66 CONTENTS . The Great Siege ...
... England and Scotland . In a Biographical Appendix brief notices are given of the lives of the great men referred to in the lessons , and of the chief authors from whose writings selections have been made . 66 CONTENTS . The Great Siege ...
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... England , Battle of Trafalgar and Death of Nelson - Part II . , Southey , Edinburgh after Flodden , Round the World ... England and Scotland in regard to " Special Subjects . " The first and second parts of The Lady of the Lake , as here ...
... England , Battle of Trafalgar and Death of Nelson - Part II . , Southey , Edinburgh after Flodden , Round the World ... England and Scotland in regard to " Special Subjects . " The first and second parts of The Lady of the Lake , as here ...
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... England - Part I. , W. F. Collier , 230 Life in Saxon England - Part II . , Soliloquy of Henry IV . , ... W. F. Collier , 235 Shakespeare , 238 The Relief of Lucknow , Speech of Henry V. at the Siege of Harfleur , The Balaclava Charge ...
... England - Part I. , W. F. Collier , 230 Life in Saxon England - Part II . , Soliloquy of Henry IV . , ... W. F. Collier , 235 Shakespeare , 238 The Relief of Lucknow , Speech of Henry V. at the Siege of Harfleur , The Balaclava Charge ...
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... England her North American colonies.3 France ⚫recognized the United States as an independent power in 1778 , and a war with England was the consequence . In the follow- ing year Spain joined France , and Gibraltar was immediately ...
... England her North American colonies.3 France ⚫recognized the United States as an independent power in 1778 , and a war with England was the consequence . In the follow- ing year Spain joined France , and Gibraltar was immediately ...
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... England . from Portsmouth with a convoy containing fresh troops and provisions , and a fleet of thirty - four sail of the line . Relieved by the news of Elliot's brilliant victory , which he received off the coast of Portugal , he ...
... England . from Portsmouth with a convoy containing fresh troops and provisions , and a fleet of thirty - four sail of the line . Relieved by the news of Elliot's brilliant victory , which he received off the coast of Portugal , he ...
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Page 290 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 164 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 29 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.
Page 70 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye : I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes...
Page 104 - Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells ! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten-golden notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon...
Page 347 - Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 164 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Page 28 - May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The Stars peep behind her and peer. And I laugh to see them whirl and flee Like a swarm of golden bees, When I widen the rent in my wind-built tent,— Till the calm rivers, lakes, and seas, Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high, Are each paved with the moon and these.
Page 87 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!
Page 91 - I sprang -to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; "Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew;