Fifth ReaderAmerican Book Company, 1911 - 258 páginas |
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... play near the end of the volume features which are of much value in the practice of expressive reading ; ( 8 ) the constant care to culti- vate in the minds of young learners a taste for the best style of literature as regards both ...
... play near the end of the volume features which are of much value in the practice of expressive reading ; ( 8 ) the constant care to culti- vate in the minds of young learners a taste for the best style of literature as regards both ...
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... Playing the Minstrel II . The Singing Leaves Eyes and No Eyes - A Play The Kettle and the Cricket Poems to be Memorized : I. Home , Sweet , Home II . To - day III . · The Tree IV . Robert of Lincoln . V. The Brook WORD STUDY Henry W ...
... Playing the Minstrel II . The Singing Leaves Eyes and No Eyes - A Play The Kettle and the Cricket Poems to be Memorized : I. Home , Sweet , Home II . To - day III . · The Tree IV . Robert of Lincoln . V. The Brook WORD STUDY Henry W ...
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... playing . The older people were walking or talking or sitting in groups by the seashore . Only one person was absent from the merrymaking , and that was an old man who , with his lantern in his hand , had gone to the top of the bluff to ...
... playing . The older people were walking or talking or sitting in groups by the seashore . Only one person was absent from the merrymaking , and that was an old man who , with his lantern in his hand , had gone to the top of the bluff to ...
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... playing , there was a turmoil of fierce waters which hid the shore from sight . In the light of the burning rice stacks the people huddled together and looked upon the fearful scene ; and scarcely a word was spoken . Of all the homes in ...
... playing , there was a turmoil of fierce waters which hid the shore from sight . In the light of the burning rice stacks the people huddled together and looked upon the fearful scene ; and scarcely a word was spoken . Of all the homes in ...
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... play . They immediately put in order an old squirrel cage with a little square house and a wire - cylinder wheel . The little house had both doors and windows , and the squirrel was to use it as dining room and bedroom . For this reason ...
... play . They immediately put in order an old squirrel cage with a little square house and a wire - cylinder wheel . The little house had both doors and windows , and the squirrel was to use it as dining room and bedroom . For this reason ...
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Agnes Giberne answered asked beautiful Bevis bird blue Bob-o'-link bough brave brown chee child chirp creature cricket cried Croesus dear desert Dicky door earth Elizabeth Eliza Epimetheus EXPRESSION eyes famous father FIFTH READER flew Franklin George green happy Hassan head heard Henry van Dyke Henry W hill horse James James Baldwin James Russell Lowell kettle kind king King Arthur land letter Little Jerry live look Mabon Madame Arachne Matoax Modron moon mother mouse deer nest never night Pandora play poem Powhatan railroad Read river River Severn Robert Robert Louis Stevenson round Siegfried Singing Leaves Solon spider Spink squirrel Stella stood story swallows sweet talk tell thee things thou thought tree Uriel Victor Hugo white captain Wind window wings wonderful woods WORD STUDY
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Página 94 - To you, in David's town, this day Is born, of David's line, The Saviour, who is Christ the Lord ; And this shall be the sign : — 4 " The heavenly babe you there shall find To human view displayed, All meanly wrapped in swathing bands, And in a manger laid.
Página 122 - 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 214 - But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he. Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face turned to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed That saved she might be ; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave On the Lake of Galilee.
Página 243 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere Home ! home ! sweet, sweet home ! There's no place like home...
Página 212 - THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company.
Página 215 - Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by the board; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho! ho! the breakers roared! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight...
Página 76 - Woodman, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough ! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand, Thy axe shall harm it not. That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea — And wouldst thou hew it down? Woodman, forbear thy stroke! Cut not its earth-bound ties...
Página 84 - And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win." " But what good came of it at last ? " Quoth little Peterkin. " Why, that I cannot tell," said he,
Página 251 - I steal by lawns and grassy plots, I slide by hazel covers ; I move the sweet forget-me-nots That grow for happy lovers. I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance, Among my skimming swallows ; I make the netted sunbeam dance Against my sandy shallows. I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses ; I linger by my shingly bars ; I loiter round my cresses ; And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Página 215 - The breakers were right beneath- her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.