The Elson Readers: (Revision of Elson grammar school reader, book four)Scott, Foresman and Company, 1921 |
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... things in life . Theodore Roosevelt trained himself to be such a rapid reader that he was able to grasp the central thought of a page almost as quickly as he could turn the leaves of the book . You read silently both for the story ...
... things in life . Theodore Roosevelt trained himself to be such a rapid reader that he was able to grasp the central thought of a page almost as quickly as he could turn the leaves of the book . You read silently both for the story ...
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... things are printed , also , which are not intended to have permanence , such as newspaper stories of daily happenings in the city or throughout the world . The newspaper , to be sure , adds greatly to our power of partaking in the ...
... things are printed , also , which are not intended to have permanence , such as newspaper stories of daily happenings in the city or throughout the world . The newspaper , to be sure , adds greatly to our power of partaking in the ...
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... things ; so also Robert Burns has touched the mountain daisy with his poetic fancy and made of it a token of life's uncertainties . Hawthorne in " The Great Stone Face " and Ruskin in " The King of the Golden River " have interpreted ...
... things ; so also Robert Burns has touched the mountain daisy with his poetic fancy and made of it a token of life's uncertainties . Hawthorne in " The Great Stone Face " and Ruskin in " The King of the Golden River " have interpreted ...
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... things , but united . Literature is not worth much unless it comes from the life of the people , and life is not worth much if it means just working for a living or for pleasure or in order to heap up a pile of money . If we are able to ...
... things , but united . Literature is not worth much unless it comes from the life of the people , and life is not worth much if it means just working for a living or for pleasure or in order to heap up a pile of money . If we are able to ...
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... things that surround us . If we move into a big house set in the midst of a large plot of ground , we get acquainted with the rooms of this house , with the furniture , with its conveniences and inconven- iences , with every part of the ...
... things that surround us . If we move into a big house set in the midst of a large plot of ground , we get acquainted with the rooms of this house , with the furniture , with its conveniences and inconven- iences , with every part of the ...
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Page 110 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked, upstarting 'Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken!— quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 667 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Page 282 - OBSERVE good faith and justice towards all nations, cultivate peace and harmony with all ; religion and morality enjoin, this conduct ; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it ? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Page 319 - 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 107 - Only this and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Nameless here for evermore.
Page 54 - Whither, 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 111 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore!
Page 132 - mong Graemes of the Netherby clan ; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran : There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee, But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see. So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?
Page 107 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 137 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ;