A Sequel to the Gradual ReaderD. Burgess & Company, 1853 |
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Pagina 15
... Hear him , my lord ; he's wondrous condescend- ing . MONOTONE . Monotone is a succession of words uttered on the same note , or nearly so ; the slide , if any , being less than the one note usually employed in mere suspension . Hail ...
... Hear him , my lord ; he's wondrous condescend- ing . MONOTONE . Monotone is a succession of words uttered on the same note , or nearly so ; the slide , if any , being less than the one note usually employed in mere suspension . Hail ...
Pagina 46
... hear its retiring roar in the distant gorges . 6. The trees stopped knocking their green crowns together , and stood again in fraternal embrace , while the heavy dripping of the rain drops from the leaves alone , told of the deluge that ...
... hear its retiring roar in the distant gorges . 6. The trees stopped knocking their green crowns together , and stood again in fraternal embrace , while the heavy dripping of the rain drops from the leaves alone , told of the deluge that ...
Pagina 49
... hear it all your life , " said Henry's brother George . 2. How so , George ? When I am a man , who will say must to me ? ' " Did you not hear father tell the gardener , that he must cover up the cucumbers , and water the asparagus ...
... hear it all your life , " said Henry's brother George . 2. How so , George ? When I am a man , who will say must to me ? ' " Did you not hear father tell the gardener , that he must cover up the cucumbers , and water the asparagus ...
Pagina 58
... hear the birds sing ; I'll sing , too , myself , till the forest shall ring . I'll hunt up my kite and make it go high , And see what a speck ' tis , when up in the sky . My hoe , and my cart , that's painted so red , I'll take to my ...
... hear the birds sing ; I'll sing , too , myself , till the forest shall ring . I'll hunt up my kite and make it go high , And see what a speck ' tis , when up in the sky . My hoe , and my cart , that's painted so red , I'll take to my ...
Pagina 61
... a summer has come and gone since then . " 19. " Now , Harry , that little incident is really touching ; and I wish that every one who kills a bird could hear you relate it . ” 20. " Allow me to read to you a passage 6 GRADUAL READER . 61.
... a summer has come and gone since then . " 19. " Now , Harry , that little incident is really touching ; and I wish that every one who kills a bird could hear you relate it . ” 20. " Allow me to read to you a passage 6 GRADUAL READER . 61.
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Pagina 34 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Pagina 140 - Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light ; She for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit, Receives no praise, but (though her lot be such, Toilsome and indigent) she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her bible true, A truth the brilliant...
Pagina 34 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Pagina 217 - ... being the grand reformer of the age. From my spout, and such spouts as mine, must flow the stream that shall cleanse our earth of the vast portion of its crime and anguish, which has gushed from the fiery fountains of the still.
Pagina 214 - town treasurer" is rightfully mine, as guardian of the best treasure that the town has. The overseers of the poor ought to make me their chairman, since I provide bountifully for the pauper, without expense to him that pays taxes. I am at the head of the fire department, and one of the physicians to the board of health.
Pagina 218 - The husband and wife, drinking deep of peaceful joy — a calm bliss of temperate affections shall pass hand in hand through life and lie down not reluctantly at its protracted close. To them the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams, nor the future an eternity of such moments as follow the delirium of the drunkard. Their dead faces shall express what their spirits were and are to be by a lingering smile of memory and hope.
Pagina 182 - The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread.
Pagina 33 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Pagina 148 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Pagina 70 - It is pleasant to be virtuous and good ; because that is to excel many others : it is pleasant to grow better; because that is to excel ourselves: it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order, within the bounds of reason and religion ; because this is empire : nay, it is pleasant even to mortify and subdue our lusts , because that is victory.