The Standard Fourth Reader: With Spelling and Defining Lessons, Exercises in Declamation, Etc. Part twoJ.L. Shorey, 1871 - 336 pages |
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... by which we reach the banks of the Merced , we are six miles from the hotel ; and every rod of the ride awakens wonder , awe , and a solemn joy . As we approach the hotel , and turn 84 THE HIGHEST CATARACT IN THE WORLD .
... by which we reach the banks of the Merced , we are six miles from the hotel ; and every rod of the ride awakens wonder , awe , and a solemn joy . As we approach the hotel , and turn 84 THE HIGHEST CATARACT IN THE WORLD .
Page 112
... wonder how that came to pass . Ba . I had the bad luck not to please you , alas ! Me . Perhaps there was something distracted my head ; Or else the man spoiled it , so badly he read . But here is my ballad , concerning which I Ba . The ...
... wonder how that came to pass . Ba . I had the bad luck not to please you , alas ! Me . Perhaps there was something distracted my head ; Or else the man spoiled it , so badly he read . But here is my ballad , concerning which I Ba . The ...
Page 124
... wonder , " said Foote ; " you are forever murdering it . " 10. THE QUAKER'S RETORT . --A Quaker and a hot- headed youth were , on a recent occasion , quarreling in the street . The man with the broad - brimmed hat kept his temper most ...
... wonder , " said Foote ; " you are forever murdering it . " 10. THE QUAKER'S RETORT . --A Quaker and a hot- headed youth were , on a recent occasion , quarreling in the street . The man with the broad - brimmed hat kept his temper most ...
Page 132
... wonder that his head was turned . He determined to play the man , and to spend his money in independ- ent traveler's style . 14. Accordingly , instead of pushing directly for home , he halted for the night at the little town of Ardagh ...
... wonder that his head was turned . He determined to play the man , and to spend his money in independ- ent traveler's style . 14. Accordingly , instead of pushing directly for home , he halted for the night at the little town of Ardagh ...
Page 160
... wonder at all I saw and all I heard . What is to be compared with it ? I found New York grown up to almost double its former size , with the air of a great capital , instead of a mere flourishing commercial town , as I had known it . 2 ...
... wonder at all I saw and all I heard . What is to be compared with it ? I found New York grown up to almost double its former size , with the air of a great capital , instead of a mere flourishing commercial town , as I had known it . 2 ...
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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?