Wheeler's Graded Readers: A Third ReaderW.H. Wheeler, 1904 - 288 páginas |
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... are like the diamond bright , but mine are dull as lead ! " Alas alas how very soon this silly little fly , Hearing his wily , flattering words , came slowly flitting by . With buzzing wings she hung aloft , then near and nearer drew ...
... are like the diamond bright , but mine are dull as lead ! " Alas alas how very soon this silly little fly , Hearing his wily , flattering words , came slowly flitting by . With buzzing wings she hung aloft , then near and nearer drew ...
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AESOP'S FABLES Alice ALICE CARY Androclus Apollo Arachne asked Aurora Beastland Benjy bird Blunder Blynken brown butterflies Butterfly-blue called chirped Christmas city mouse clouds country mouse cried dear Dick door elephant eyes fairy father flew flowers Fountain of Beauty glad Grace Darling GUIDO RENI happy heard horses JOHN CONSTABLE jumped Kitty knew laughed Lewis Carroll lily little boy Little brook little girl lived looked Louisa Louisa May Alcott Marion morning mother naughty never night once Phaethon Phoebe Cary play poor pretty queen rich Rosa Bonheur Rose sailors Samuel Francis Smith shoes sing Sir Edwin Landseer sister skip sleep soon spider stood story sunbeam tell things thought Tilly tired told trees water babies Wind wings Wishing Gate woman wonderful
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Página 208 - Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song! Let mortal tongues awake; Let all that breathe partake; Let rocks their silence break, The sound prolong! Our fathers...
Página 144 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow.
Página 186 - Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers; Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, — Followed the piper for their lives.
Página 242 - UP the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather!
Página 142 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER. I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn : He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! I remember, I remember...
Página 46 - That he shouts with his sister at play ! 0 well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But...
Página 269 - Who knows whither the clouds have fled ? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache...
Página 261 - Alas, alas! how very soon this silly little Fly, Hearing his wily, flattering words, came slowly flitting by: With buzzing wings she hung aloft, then near and nearer drew, — Thinking only of her brilliant eyes, and green and purple hue; Thinking only of her crested head — poor foolish thing!
Página 219 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Página 260 - Will you walk into my parlor?" said the spider to the fly; " 'Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy. The way into my parlor is up a winding stair, And I have many pretty things to show when you are there." "O no, no," said the little fly, "to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come down again.