A Spelling BookLongmans, Green, and Company, 1910 |
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Página 71 - A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet: That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night. — Henry
Página 74 - The sea, the sea, the open sea, The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies. — Barry Cornwall: The Sea.
Página 139 - The Minstrel-boy to the war has gone, In the ranks of death you'll find him; His father's sword he has girded on And his wild harp slung behind him. " Land of song!" said the warrior-bard, "Though all the world betray thee, One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard, One faithful harp shall praise thee!
Página 102 - The Eagle He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls; And like a thunderbolt he falls. — Alfred Tennyson.
Página 97 - Then pale and worn, he kept his deck And peered through darkness. Ah, that night Of all dark nights! And then a speck '■— Alight! alight! alight! alight! It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! It grew to be Time's burst of dawn, He gained a world, he gave that world Its greatest lesson: " On! sail on!
Página 93 - Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye.
Página 97 - When freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. — Joseph Rodman Drake: The American Flag.
Página 130 - a drowsy summer's day, like the hum of a beehive; interrupted now and then by the authoritative voice of the master in the tone of menace or command or, peradventure, by the appalling sound of the birch as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge.
Página 79 - Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner, at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped. — Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol.
Página 152 - as the evening shades prevail, moon takes up the wondrous tale, nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars, that round her burn,