Relfe brothers' model reading-books, in prose and verse, ed., with notes and intr. by R.F. Charles, Volumen5Richard Fletcher Charles 1882 |
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... things here again . " Perhaps he promised , but he generally forgot . " At last he brought with him an animal of a much larger sort than usual . It was a Kae , or jackdaw . He used to keep it at home , but it made such a noise that he ...
... things here again . " Perhaps he promised , but he generally forgot . " At last he brought with him an animal of a much larger sort than usual . It was a Kae , or jackdaw . He used to keep it at home , but it made such a noise that he ...
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... thing ! I can't point a moral , or sing you the song , My Years are too short - and your Ears are too long . LITTLE PITCHER . A MIGHTY growth ! the country side Lamented when the Giant died , For England loves her trees : What misty ...
... thing ! I can't point a moral , or sing you the song , My Years are too short - and your Ears are too long . LITTLE PITCHER . A MIGHTY growth ! the country side Lamented when the Giant died , For England loves her trees : What misty ...
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... was said to improve him in sagacity or in manage- ment of business , he would give attention to beyond one of his years , from confidence in his natural capacities for such things . And thus , afterwards , 28 Themistocles .
... was said to improve him in sagacity or in manage- ment of business , he would give attention to beyond one of his years , from confidence in his natural capacities for such things . And thus , afterwards , 28 Themistocles .
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Richard Fletcher Charles. capacities for such things . And thus , afterwards , when in company where people engaged themselves in what are commonly thought the liberal and elegant amusements , he was obliged to defend himself against the ...
Richard Fletcher Charles. capacities for such things . And thus , afterwards , when in company where people engaged themselves in what are commonly thought the liberal and elegant amusements , he was obliged to defend himself against the ...
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... thing was by no means uncommon or improbable . In the history of the Cape colony many a Boor had lost his flocks in this very way . No wonder there was anxiety that night in the kraal of the field - cornet . At intervals Von Bloom went ...
... thing was by no means uncommon or improbable . In the history of the Cape colony many a Boor had lost his flocks in this very way . No wonder there was anxiety that night in the kraal of the field - cornet . At intervals Von Bloom went ...
Términos y frases comunes
A. P. Stanley battle beautiful Black Prince brother called carnivoras castle church court cried dark dear doth Duke Dunnet Head England English eyes fair father feeling feet fields fire furnace garden Gentlemanly Interest gentlemen grave hall hand hath head heard heart heaven Henry Wharton hermit Holborn Holborn Head honour Houndsditch Kenilworth Castle king kraal labour ladies Lane light lion lives locusts London London Wall looked Lord Ludgate Hill Mariposa Grove Martin miles Minnehaha Miss Matty Miss Pole moon never night noble o'er once Palissy passed Pecksniff play prisoner Pyramus Pyramus and Thisbe queen Quin returned round seemed seen shell side stood Street Swartboy sweet tell thee Themistocles Thisby thou thought Tower trees turn Tyburn wall watch Westminster Hall wind words
Pasajes populares
Página 98 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 43 - A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Página 293 - Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Página 306 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it...
Página 166 - I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist : A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain...
Página 292 - Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Página 112 - I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it.
Página 141 - I thought of this, and I was glad, For thought of them had made me mad; But I was curious to ascend To my barr'd windows, and to bend Once more, upon the mountains high, The quiet of a loving eye.
Página 159 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Página 119 - But mine the sorrow, mine the fault, And well my life shall pay ; I'll seek the solitude he sought, And stretch me where he lay. " And there forlorn, despairing, hid, I'll lay me down and die ; 'Tvvas so for me that Edwin did, And so for him will I.