The Mother Tongue: Book I : Lessons in Speaking, Reading and Writing EnglishGinn & Company, 1900 - 320 pagini |
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Abdel Hassan adjectives adverb ALICE CARY apostrophe apple baby beautiful birds blossoms boughs business letter camels capital letter child clause comma copula Copy cousin dear Describe DICTATION EXERCISE examples exclamation point express father flowers following sentences genitive girl grapes groups of words Hare Hiawatha horse interrogation point italicized words John John Kingman Landseer lesson LETTER WRITING lives look marks of punctuation Mary meaning modify morning mother nouns objects Observe ORAL EXERCISE ostrich Otis Grant OWNERSHIP OR POSSESSION person poem predicate pronouns questions quotation marks reply river ROSA BONHEUR rule sail sandpiper SECTION shining singular snow song speak stanza Study the following teacher tence There's things thought Tom Jones Treasure-Boxes tree verb wind wish word tells words are called Write a note Write the names WRITTEN EXERCISE
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Pagina 243 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?
Pagina 290 - I WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, — A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay : Ten thousand saw I, at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee ; A poet could not...
Pagina 231 - And low eaves' icy fretting. It touched the tangled golden curls, And brown eyes full of grieving, Of one who still her steps delayed When all the school were leaving. For near her stood the little boy Her childish favor singled ; His cap pulled low upon a face Where pride and shame were mingled. Pushing with restless feet the snow To right and left, he lingered;— As restlessly her tiny hands The blue-checked npron fingered.
Pagina 173 - THE bird that soars on highest wing, Builds on the ground her lowly nest ; And she that doth most sweetly sing, Sings in the shade when all things rest ; In lark and nightingale we see What honor hath humility. When Mary chose " the better part,
Pagina 125 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Pagina 82 - There's joy in the mountains ; There's life in the fountains ; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing ; The rain is over and gone ! William Wordsworth '44* CHORAL SONG OF ILL YRIAN PEASANTS.
Pagina 243 - The names of those who love the Lord." "And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so,
Pagina 286 - No go' - by land or ocean No mail - no post No news from any foreign coast No Park - no Ring - no afternoon gentility No company - no nobility No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!
Pagina 124 - Monday's child is fair of face/ Tuesday's child is full of grace/ Wednesday's child is full of woe/ Thursday's child has far to go...
Pagina 304 - No endeavor is in vain ; Its reward is in the doing, And the rapture of pursuing Is the prize the vanquished gain.