The Jones First [-fifth] Reader, Book 5Ginn & Company, 1903 |
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... NIGHT BEFORE WATERLOO THE MORAL RIGHTS OF ANIMALS Richard Watson Gilder William Makepeace Thackeray 220 Lord Byron 222 William Cunningham Gray 227 • William Shakespeare 231 10 EDUCATION • MUNERA PULVERIS OPPORTUNITY • RALEIGH'S CLOAK ...
... NIGHT BEFORE WATERLOO THE MORAL RIGHTS OF ANIMALS Richard Watson Gilder William Makepeace Thackeray 220 Lord Byron 222 William Cunningham Gray 227 • William Shakespeare 231 10 EDUCATION • MUNERA PULVERIS OPPORTUNITY • RALEIGH'S CLOAK ...
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... 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 mountains . These men will make for the Springs . The Springs are the only water to ...
... 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 mountains . These men will make for the Springs . The Springs are the only water to ...
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... night and day : 5 Sow the seed , -withdraw the curtain , -CLEAR THE WAY ! SECOND VOICE Men of action , aid and cheer them , as ye may ! There's a fount about to stream , There's a light about to beam , There's a warmth about to glow ...
... night and day : 5 Sow the seed , -withdraw the curtain , -CLEAR THE WAY ! SECOND VOICE Men of action , aid and cheer them , as ye may ! There's a fount about to stream , There's a light about to beam , There's a warmth about to glow ...
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... night ; and when deep sleep falleth on men , God openeth their ears and sealeth their instruction . In our waking hours we think and feel ; in our sleep we become . The poet finds in the morning sweeter imagi- nations , the thinker ...
... night ; and when deep sleep falleth on men , God openeth their ears and sealeth their instruction . In our waking hours we think and feel ; in our sleep we become . The poet finds in the morning sweeter imagi- nations , the thinker ...
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... nights , upon all the ways that might avail to gain her purpose . 10 At last she formed the resolve - and a very bold one it was to make the journey on foot from the place of their exile to the Russian capital ; never doubting , in the ...
... nights , upon all the ways that might avail to gain her purpose . 10 At last she formed the resolve - and a very bold one it was to make the journey on foot from the place of their exile to the Russian capital ; never doubting , in the ...
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Abridged American Anchises arms azalea battle beauty bells birds Boabdil born brave Brutus Cæsar called cannon cloud dark death deep Don Quixote earth England English eyes famous feet fell fire flower French friends gray ground hand hast hath head heard heart heaven HENRY TIMROD hill honor Hoopoe horse hour human JOAQUIN MILLER king land Lars Porsena light live look Lord marsh marshes of Glynn morning mountain never night noble NOTE o'er once passed peace Peisthetairus Pickwick poems poet RALPH WALDO EMERSON rolling sail Sancho Panza scene Scrooge selection is taken smile soul sound Spain Spanish spirit stood story sweet sword thee things THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thou thought tongue trees tube turned voice waves WILLIAM WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILSON FLAGG wind woods word young
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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.