American Classics for Seventh and Eighth Grade Reading: With Biographical Sketches, Portraits and Suggestions for StudyHoughton Mifflin Company, 1909 - 437 pages |
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... lived in the sixth or seventh century before Christ . He was said to have fallen asleep in a cave when a boy , and to have awaked at the end of fifty - seven years , his soul , meanwhile , having been growing in stature . There is the ...
... lived in the sixth or seventh century before Christ . He was said to have fallen asleep in a cave when a boy , and to have awaked at the end of fifty - seven years , his soul , meanwhile , having been growing in stature . There is the ...
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... lived many years since , while the country was yet a province of Great Britain , a simple , good - natured fellow , of the name of Rip Van Winkle . He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days ...
... lived many years since , while the country was yet a province of Great Britain , a simple , good - natured fellow , of the name of Rip Van Winkle . He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days ...
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... lived from 1700 to 1748. In it he describes a beautiful pal- ace with groves and lawns and flowery beds , where everything ministers to the ease and luxury of its lotus - eating inmates . He seems to have gathered his materials from ...
... lived from 1700 to 1748. In it he describes a beautiful pal- ace with groves and lawns and flowery beds , where everything ministers to the ease and luxury of its lotus - eating inmates . He seems to have gathered his materials from ...
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... lived , enlarged and improved it , and gave it the name of Sunnyside . Here he spent his declin- ing years , thus gratifying the wish implied in the text . HOLLOW , and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW . 33.
... lived , enlarged and improved it , and gave it the name of Sunnyside . Here he spent his declin- ing years , thus gratifying the wish implied in the text . HOLLOW , and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW . 33.
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... lived successively a week at a time , thus going the rounds of the neighborhood , with all his worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerchief . That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his rustic patrons , who are apt ...
... lived successively a week at a time , thus going the rounds of the neighborhood , with all his worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerchief . That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his rustic patrons , who are apt ...
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Page 195 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new: Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 175 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 177 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 175 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house...
Page 176 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world, — with kings, The powerful of the earth, — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Page 355 - For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as 'Nevermore.
Page 363 - I was a child, and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago. In this kingdom by the sea...
Page 354 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling. By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Page 176 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there : And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep— the dead reign there alone.
Page 353 - This it is and nothing more." Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door: — Darkness there and nothing more.