The Sprague Classic Readers: Book 1-5, Book 5, Part 1New York, 1904 |
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... the thought in difficult selections without much trouble . However , he has not wholly passed the stage of learning to read , although this is now happily blended in the more attractive reading to learn . He has acquired a fairly 8.
... the thought in difficult selections without much trouble . However , he has not wholly passed the stage of learning to read , although this is now happily blended in the more attractive reading to learn . He has acquired a fairly 8.
Page 28
... pauses to exchange greetings with the dogs he met or passed on the road , until he came to the great bridge that with majestic mien crossed the river with a stately stride . He knew the horses had to slow up while and 28.
... pauses to exchange greetings with the dogs he met or passed on the road , until he came to the great bridge that with majestic mien crossed the river with a stately stride . He knew the horses had to slow up while and 28.
Page 41
... passed away like a bad dream , and the brooks woke up and began to laugh and gurgle , and the ice went out of the ponds . Then the pussy - willows threw out their soft catkins , and the ferns came up with their woolly hoods on , like ...
... passed away like a bad dream , and the brooks woke up and began to laugh and gurgle , and the ice went out of the ponds . Then the pussy - willows threw out their soft catkins , and the ferns came up with their woolly hoods on , like ...
Page 58
... passed her face , and looking up to see from whence it came , her astonished eyes saw Safrax , her uncle . Keeping his blue eyes fixed with loving intentness upon hers , he swept his hands across his harp , and faintly , over the heads ...
... passed her face , and looking up to see from whence it came , her astonished eyes saw Safrax , her uncle . Keeping his blue eyes fixed with loving intentness upon hers , he swept his hands across his harp , and faintly , over the heads ...
Page 66
... passed , and a new day showed poor Quackalina the twenty little eggs actually under her breast eggs so little that she could roll two at once under her foot she did not know what to think . But like many patient people when great ...
... passed , and a new day showed poor Quackalina the twenty little eggs actually under her breast eggs so little that she could roll two at once under her foot she did not know what to think . But like many patient people when great ...
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Page 236 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace ; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume ; And the bride-maidens whispered, ' 'Twere better by far, To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 18 - 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.
Page 143 - The stout mate thought of home; a spray Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. "What shall I say, brave Admiral, say, If we sight naught but seas at dawn?" "Why, you shall say at break of day, 'Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!
Page 217 - Douglas' head! And first I tell thee, haughty peer, He who does England's message here, Although the meanest in her state, May well, proud Angus, be thy mate! And, Douglas, more I tell thee here, Even in thy pitch of pride, Here, in thy hold, thy vassals near, (Nay, never look upon your lord, And lay your hands upon your sword), I tell thee thou'rt defied!
Page 5 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 161 - 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?
Page 161 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Page 143 - Sail on! Sail on! Sail on! and on!'" They sailed and sailed, as winds might blow, Until at last the blanched mate said: "Why, now not even God would know Should I and all my men fall dead. These very winds forget their way, For God from these dread seas is gone. Now speak, brave Adm'r'l; speak and say — " He said: "Sail on! Sail on! and on!
Page 235 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapons had none, He rode all unarm'd, and he rode all alone.
Page 161 - Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.