The Howe Readers by Grades: Book six-[eight], Book 6C. Scribner's Sons, 1912 |
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Page 90
... Romulus and Remus were sure to be among the leaders of the shepherd band . They won great fame among their companions , but they also gained the hatred of evil - doers . At last , some lawless men , in revenge , seized Remus at a ...
... Romulus and Remus were sure to be among the leaders of the shepherd band . They won great fame among their companions , but they also gained the hatred of evil - doers . At last , some lawless men , in revenge , seized Remus at a ...
Page 91
... Romulus the whole story of the discovery of Remus and himself ; and Romulus gathered together a company of his friends , and hurried to the city to save his brother . In this he soon succeeded ; and then the two brothers joined together ...
... Romulus the whole story of the discovery of Remus and himself ; and Romulus gathered together a company of his friends , and hurried to the city to save his brother . In this he soon succeeded ; and then the two brothers joined together ...
Page 92
... Remus saw six vultures from his hilltop ; but Romulus , a little later , saw twelve . This was thought to be a better sign than that of Remus ; so Romulus became the founder of the new city , and it was called Rome after him . I would ...
... Remus saw six vultures from his hilltop ; but Romulus , a little later , saw twelve . This was thought to be a better sign than that of Remus ; so Romulus became the founder of the new city , and it was called Rome after him . I would ...
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Page 233 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend t For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 92 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 70 - 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.
Page 213 - The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company...
Page 7 - Then off there flung in smiling joy, And held himself erect By just his horse's mane, a boy : You hardly could suspect — (So tight he kept his lips compressed, Scarce any blood came through) You looked twice ere you saw his breast Was all but shot in two. "Well...
Page 247 - In place of these, a lean biliouslooking fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens — election — members of Congress — liberty — Bunker's hill — heroes of seventy-six — and other words which were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle.
Page 253 - Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true.
Page 50 - Now there was, not far from the place where they lay, a castle, called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair, and it was in his grounds they now were sleeping ; wherefore he, getting up in the morning early, and walking up and down in his fields, caught Christian and Hopeful asleep in his grounds. Then with a grim and surly voice he bid them awake, and asked them whence they were, and what they did in his grounds. They told him they were pilgrims, and that they had lost their way.
Page 253 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly- earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Page 7 - Emperor, by God's grace We've got you Ratisbon! The Marshal's in the market-place, And you'll be there anon To see your flag-bird flap his vans Where I, to heart's desire, Perched him!" The chief's eye flashed; his plans Soared up again like fire. The chief's eye flashed; but presently Softened itself, as sheathes A film the mother-eagle's eye When her bruised eaglet breathes ; "You're wounded!" "Nay," the soldier's pride Touched to the quick, he said: "I'm killed, Sire!