The Jones First [-fifth] Reader, Book 5Ginn & Company, 1903 |
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... fear pur- suit and push on without stopping . them ; we shall catch them before night ! But we shall catch " You are aiming for the mountains ? " I asked . " For Luggernel Alley , " said Brent . " That is the only gate through the ...
... fear pur- suit and push on without stopping . them ; we shall catch them before night ! But we shall catch " You are aiming for the mountains ? " I asked . " For Luggernel Alley , " said Brent . " That is the only gate through the ...
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... fear left her , and she bounded on with the exaltation of triumph . For a quarter of an hour she went on at a slapping pace , clearing the bushes with bound after bound , flying over the fallen logs , 40 THE JONES READERS.
... fear left her , and she bounded on with the exaltation of triumph . For a quarter of an hour she went on at a slapping pace , clearing the bushes with bound after bound , flying over the fallen logs , 40 THE JONES READERS.
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... fear or delay ; promptly , sir , as becomes a servant of my royal master . Go , Major Heyward , and give them a flourish of the music ; send out a messenger to let them know who is coming . We will follow with a 15 small guard , for ...
... fear or delay ; promptly , sir , as becomes a servant of my royal master . Go , Major Heyward , and give them a flourish of the music ; send out a messenger to let them know who is coming . We will follow with a 15 small guard , for ...
Page 114
... fear They never yet have reached your knightly ear . What fair renown , what honor , what repute Can come to you from starving this poor brute ? " He who serves well and speaks not merits more Than they who clamor loudest at the door ...
... fear They never yet have reached your knightly ear . What fair renown , what honor , what repute Can come to you from starving this poor brute ? " He who serves well and speaks not merits more Than they who clamor loudest at the door ...
Page 137
... fear of debt ; the dear society of weans and wife , of brothers and 25 sisters , proud of each other , knowing so few , and finding amends for want and obscurity in books and thoughts . What a love of nature , and , shall I THE FIFTH ...
... fear of debt ; the dear society of weans and wife , of brothers and 25 sisters , proud of each other , knowing so few , and finding amends for want and obscurity in books and thoughts . What a love of nature , and , shall I THE FIFTH ...
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Page 135 - But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride ; And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail : And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 362 - If you have tears prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii : Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Page 494 - Pr'ythee, lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny : 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 79 - Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing. Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
Page 318 - MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 464 - A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Page 271 - Then they rode back, but not, Not the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them...
Page 182 - An hour passed on — the Turk awoke; That bright dream was his last; He woke — to hear his sentries shriek, "To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek!
Page 134 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Page 360 - He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man.