The Standard Fourth Reader: With Spelling and Defining Lessons, Exercises in Declamation, Etc. Part twoJ.L. Shorey, 1871 - 336 pages |
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... armed robbers . They had just tied his hands and feet , and were threatening to murder him if he would not tell them where his money was to be found . 7. The soldier instantly forced his way in , and The Good Great Man,
... armed robbers . They had just tied his hands and feet , and were threatening to murder him if he would not tell them where his money was to be found . 7. The soldier instantly forced his way in , and The Good Great Man,
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... feet , it is torn from its frozen chains , and precipitated , with a tremendous plunge , into the abyss below . Delth higherrible 4. This mighty launch now floats , like a lofty island , on the ocean , till , driven southward by winds ...
... feet , it is torn from its frozen chains , and precipitated , with a tremendous plunge , into the abyss below . Delth higherrible 4. This mighty launch now floats , like a lofty island , on the ocean , till , driven southward by winds ...
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... feet . It was curious to see him watching the operation of threading a needle . When the thread was put ever so little into the eye , he would seize the end of it , and dexterously pull it through . 3. Sometimes , when one of the three ...
... feet . It was curious to see him watching the operation of threading a needle . When the thread was put ever so little into the eye , he would seize the end of it , and dexterously pull it through . 3. Sometimes , when one of the three ...
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... feet above the road , and are nearly perpendicular . From these walls , rocky splint- ers , a thousand feet in height , start up , and , every winter , drop a few hundred tons of granite , to adorn the base of the rampart with ...
... feet above the road , and are nearly perpendicular . From these walls , rocky splint- ers , a thousand feet in height , start up , and , every winter , drop a few hundred tons of granite , to adorn the base of the rampart with ...
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... feet in its plunge , dashing from a break or depression in a cliff thirty - two hundred feet sheer . 5. A writer , who visited this valley in September , calls the cataract a mere tape - line of water dropped from the sky . Perhaps it ...
... feet in its plunge , dashing from a break or depression in a cliff thirty - two hundred feet sheer . 5. A writer , who visited this valley in September , calls the cataract a mere tape - line of water dropped from the sky . Perhaps it ...
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Page 281 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed. The mustering squadron, and the clattering car. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 331 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection...
Page 155 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Page 280 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Page 132 - There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school ; A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew ; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face...
Page 267 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 333 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 206 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 158 - A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfelt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock.
Page 333 - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? Who would fardels bear, To groan and sweat under a weary life ; But that the dread of something after death, — The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, — puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of?