Grammar School Reader ...Sanborn & Carter, 1851 - 360 páginas |
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... things which his father had carefully reared . In the midst of this hot pursuit , his father stood at the garden gate and shouted , " Charles ! " 12. Charles halted , looked around , blushed , and approached his father . " Why are you ...
... things which his father had carefully reared . In the midst of this hot pursuit , his father stood at the garden gate and shouted , " Charles ! " 12. Charles halted , looked around , blushed , and approached his father . " Why are you ...
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... things . 11. There , too , he searched ; and as it was not there , the keeper kindly came out , and helped him again to look upon the road , and they even swept and raked the dirt , but all in vain . " It will never do ; the sixpence is ...
... things . 11. There , too , he searched ; and as it was not there , the keeper kindly came out , and helped him again to look upon the road , and they even swept and raked the dirt , but all in vain . " It will never do ; the sixpence is ...
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... thing , Thomas , that , with all our care and attention , no two cups of coffee are ever precisely alike . Thomas . How do you account for that ? Mr. W. In no other way than that every product of man is necessarily impèrfect . But I ...
... thing , Thomas , that , with all our care and attention , no two cups of coffee are ever precisely alike . Thomas . How do you account for that ? Mr. W. In no other way than that every product of man is necessarily impèrfect . But I ...
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... thing ; A very little thing ; I only shoot At my child . 2. True ! True ! I did not think of that . QUESTIONS . What is the circumflex ? What is the rule for the circumflex ? Read the examples , and point out the words that are marked ...
... thing ; A very little thing ; I only shoot At my child . 2. True ! True ! I did not think of that . QUESTIONS . What is the circumflex ? What is the rule for the circumflex ? Read the examples , and point out the words that are marked ...
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... things he searched , and what was crooked he made plain . 3. He went forth boldly upon the face of the mighty deep . He surveyed the nations of the earth . He measured the dis- tances of the stars , and called them by their names . He ...
... things he searched , and what was crooked he made plain . 3. He went forth boldly upon the face of the mighty deep . He surveyed the nations of the earth . He measured the dis- tances of the stars , and called them by their names . He ...
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Términos y frases comunes
accent animal appear beautiful bird breath bright Brunello burning called Canute Catiline circumflex clouds color contrast cottager cougar Croton Aqueduct dark denote earth electric element elementary sounds emphasis ERRORS.1 EXERCISE eyes falling inflection father feel feet flowers fluid forest forget-me-not Frank garden give glaciers green Guidotto heard heart heaven Indian lake leaves length LESSON letters light look Lucy machine manner marked Mary Ann mastodon miles mother mountain never night NOTE o'er ocean Offa paint passed person piece Pliny the Younger poor Powhattan Pronounce Puteoli pyramid Pythias quadrupeds QUESTIONS Read the examples rising inflection river Rollo rule silk sixpence soldier Spell and Define spirit sub-vocals substitutes suppose syllable tell Thebes thee things thou thought thousand guineas tree turpentine voice walrus waves whale young
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Página 353 - 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 167 - Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Página 341 - Her soldier, closing with the foe, Gives for thy sake a deadlier blow; His plighted maiden, when she fears For him, the Joy of her young years, Thinks of thy fate and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys. Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried Joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth Talk of thy doom without a sigh: For thou art freedom's now and fame's, One of the few, the immortal names, That...
Página 339 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band : " Strike till the last armed foe expires ! Strike for your altars and your fires ! Strike for the green graves of your sires, God and your native land...
Página 169 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Página 66 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Página 167 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Página 252 - The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
Página 169 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 167 - But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage And froze the genial current of the soul.