Elson Grammar School Readers, Libro 1Scott, Foresman and Company, 1911 Selections from American and English poets and authors. Includes brief biographical information and "helps to study." |
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... Midas was broad awake , and , stretch- 5 ing his arms out of bed , began to touch the objects that were within reach . He was anxious to prove whether the Golden Touch had really come , according to the stranger's promise . So he laid ...
... Midas was broad awake , and , stretch- 5 ing his arms out of bed , began to touch the objects that were within reach . He was anxious to prove whether the Golden Touch had really come , according to the stranger's promise . So he laid ...
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... Midas was so excited by his good fortune , that the palace seemed not sufficiently spacious to contain him . He therefore went down stairs , and smiled , on observing that the balustrade of the staircase became a bar of burnished gold ...
... Midas was so excited by his good fortune , that the palace seemed not sufficiently spacious to contain him . He therefore went down stairs , and smiled , on observing that the balustrade of the staircase became a bar of burnished gold ...
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... Midas could not have had a better . Her Little Marygold had not yet made her appearance . father ordered her to be called , and , seating himself at table , 5 awaited the child's coming , in order to begin his own breakfast . To do Midas ...
... Midas could not have had a better . Her Little Marygold had not yet made her appearance . father ordered her to be called , and , seating himself at table , 5 awaited the child's coming , in order to begin his own breakfast . To do Midas ...
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... Midas , who was ashamed to confess that he himself had wrought 5 the change which so greatly afflicted her . " Sit down and eat your bread and milk ! You will find it easy enough to exchange a golden rose like that ( which will last ...
... Midas , who was ashamed to confess that he himself had wrought 5 the change which so greatly afflicted her . " Sit down and eat your bread and milk ! You will find it easy enough to exchange a golden rose like that ( which will last ...
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... Midas . " Eat your bread and milk , before it gets quite cold . ” He took one of the nice little trouts on his plate , and , by way of experiment , touched its tail with his finger . To his horror , it was immediately changed from an ...
... Midas . " Eat your bread and milk , before it gets quite cold . ” He took one of the nice little trouts on his plate , and , by way of experiment , touched its tail with his finger . To his horror , it was immediately changed from an ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Aladdin Aladdin's mother Ali Baba answered arrows asked Baba Badroulbadour bird Blefuscu boat bright Caliph Captain Cassim cave cried door Elson Grammar School Emperor Epimetheus eyes flowers forest gave give gold golden Golden Touch Grammar School Reader hand heard heart HELPS TO STUDY Hiawatha hundred Inchcape Rock island isle King King Midas knew Knight lamp land laugh Lilliput lines which tell Little John lived look magician Majesty merchants Midas Morgiana morning Nokomis Notes and Questions palace Pandora Phrases for Study poem poet Read the lines rich Robin Hood Robinson Crusoe round sail School Reader Book Sheriff Sheriff of Nottingham ship shore Sindbad SINDBAD THE SAILOR slave soon stanza story STUDY Notes Study PRONUNCIATION Sultan things thou thought told took tree VOCABULARY voyage wild wind wood Words and Phrases
Pasajes populares
Página 130 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Página 290 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong.
Página 89 - He was chubby and plump — a right jolly old elf; And I laughed, when I saw him, in spite of myself. A wink of his eye and a twist of his head Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
Página 45 - Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!" So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. "Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read.
Página 17 - Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there: O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Página 290 - I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
Página 88 - Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there...
Página 89 - He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
Página 32 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...
Página 51 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.