Choice Literature, Libro 5American Book Company, 1912 |
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... piece of rope , which I wondered I did not see at first , hanging down by the fore- chain so low that , with great ... pieces of plank across , but found that the timbers were too light to support any great weight , so I took a carpen ...
... piece of rope , which I wondered I did not see at first , hanging down by the fore- chain so low that , with great ... pieces of plank across , but found that the timbers were too light to support any great weight , so I took a carpen ...
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ter's saw and cut a spare topmast into three pieces and added them to the raft . I did this at the expense of great labor and pains , for the hope of furnishing myself with necessaries enabled me to do more than I should have been able ...
ter's saw and cut a spare topmast into three pieces and added them to the raft . I did this at the expense of great labor and pains , for the hope of furnishing myself with necessaries enabled me to do more than I should have been able ...
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... pieces of dried goat's flesh ( which we lived much upon ) , and a little European corn , which had been laid by for some fowls which we brought to sea with us , but the fowls had been killed . There had been some barley and wheat , but ...
... pieces of dried goat's flesh ( which we lived much upon ) , and a little European corn , which had been laid by for some fowls which we brought to sea with us , but the fowls had been killed . There had been some barley and wheat , but ...
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... piece of ground , which I expected the water would overflow , and so it did . As soon as I found water enough , for my raft drew about a foot of water , I thrust her upon that flat piece of ground and there moored her , by sticking my ...
... piece of ground , which I expected the water would overflow , and so it did . As soon as I found water enough , for my raft drew about a foot of water , I thrust her upon that flat piece of ground and there moored her , by sticking my ...
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... pieces , and one of the pistols , and a horn of pow- der ; and thus armed I traveled for discovery up to the top of that hill , where , after I had with great labor and diffi- culty reached the top , I saw my fate , to my very great ...
... pieces , and one of the pistols , and a horn of pow- der ; and thus armed I traveled for discovery up to the top of that hill , where , after I had with great labor and diffi- culty reached the top , I saw my fate , to my very great ...
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alcalde alguazil Alhambra apple tree Arabian horse arms began Boabdil Bob-o-link bright brought Captain Phips cave cavern chair CHARLES MACKAY chee cocked corporal cried Dame damsel donkey enchanted England English escribano eyes father fortress Fritz Gallego gold Governor Manco Granada Grandfather hand head heard heart hill horse hour Indians Katydid king knew land looked Mary Dyer Montcalm Moor Moorish morning mountain never night o'er Old Castile old governor old soldier passed Peregil piece poems Poor Richard says prisoner Quaker raft replied returned Rip Van Winkle river ROBERT MACKENZIE rock round sailed seal of Solomon seemed ship shore side Spain Spanish Spink steed stone stood story sweet thee things thou thought Ticonderoga toil took tower treasure vault vessel village WASHINGTON IRVING water carrier wife wild WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT William Phips wreck
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Página 77 - The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed ; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Página 203 - 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 79 - AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck once red with heroes...
Página 255 - O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall.
Página 259 - How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting, that The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Página 232 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed, every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers.
Página 211 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, . ' Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Página 42 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling, And here and there a foamy flake Upon me as I travel, With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel, And draw them all along and flow To join the brimming river, For nun may come, and men may go, But I go on forever.
Página 42 - I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret, By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling...
Página 101 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!