Everyday Classics: Primer-eighth Reader, Livro 5Macmillan, 1917 The Everyday classics are a series of school readers basued upon a valid principle and a vital need. The principle is that there is a considerable body of good literature which is simple enough to be understood and enjoyed by children. It is of good value to read stories like these childhood to be retained as an influence upon one's on attitude towards life. The need for such a series is seen in the fact that many children are put in touch with so little of this common heritage. |
De dentro do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 28
Página 14
... passed , Ah , Master Short and now Thwack ! is the trial , the judge prepares to execute it in person . 20 thwack ! thwack ! In these good old times , a school- master's blows were well laid on . And thus the forenoon passes away . Now ...
... passed , Ah , Master Short and now Thwack ! is the trial , the judge prepares to execute it in person . 20 thwack ! thwack ! In these good old times , a school- master's blows were well laid on . And thus the forenoon passes away . Now ...
Página 15
... passed the threshold ; but , fairly out of the schoolroom , lo , what a joyous shout ! what a scampering and tram- pling of feet ! what a sense of recovered freedom ex- pressed in the merry uproar of all their voices ! What 5 care they ...
... passed the threshold ; but , fairly out of the schoolroom , lo , what a joyous shout ! what a scampering and tram- pling of feet ! what a sense of recovered freedom ex- pressed in the merry uproar of all their voices ! What 5 care they ...
Página 26
... Passing the mayor's office , I saw people standing before the little bulletin board . For two years it was there that we received all the news of battles , of victo- 15 ries and defeats . " What is it now ? " I thought , without ...
... Passing the mayor's office , I saw people standing before the little bulletin board . For two years it was there that we received all the news of battles , of victo- 15 ries and defeats . " What is it now ? " I thought , without ...
Página 37
... passed him , and his voice rings out clear over the advancing tide , 20 " Look out in goal . " Crab Jones catches the ball ; but before he can kick , the rush is upon him and passes over him . He picks himself up behind them with his ...
... passed him , and his voice rings out clear over the advancing tide , 20 " Look out in goal . " Crab Jones catches the ball ; but before he can kick , the rush is upon him and passes over him . He picks himself up behind them with his ...
Página 50
... passing shortly over a brook 15 by a long bridge he met at the middle a stranger . And neither of the two would give way to the other. ROBIN HOOD AND LITTLE JOHN HIS ARROW SPLIT THE WILLOW ROD AGAINST WHICH IT WAS. 50 EVERYDAY CLASSICS ...
... passing shortly over a brook 15 by a long bridge he met at the middle a stranger . And neither of the two would give way to the other. ROBIN HOOD AND LITTLE JOHN HIS ARROW SPLIT THE WILLOW ROD AGAINST WHICH IT WAS. 50 EVERYDAY CLASSICS ...
Outras edições - Ver todos
Everyday Classics: Primer-Eighth Reader, Livro 5 Franklin Thomas Baker,Ashley Horace Thorndike,Fannie Wyche Dunn Prévia não disponível - 2018 |
Everyday Classics: Primer-Eighth Reader, Livro 5 Franklin Thomas Baker,Ashley Horace Thorndike,Fannie Wyche Dunn Prévia não disponível - 2015 |
Termos e frases comuns
Aladdin Alsace Ariel ball battle beautiful brave brother Buck Caliban Captain Phipps Chalciope child Cratchit cried Croesus daughter dear Describe England English eyes father Ferdinand genie Gessler girl Glossary Gluck goal gold golden fleece Golden River hand head hear heard HELPS TO STUDY heroes horse Jason Joan John Halifax Julius Cæsar King knew lamp little Wolff lived looked Maggie magic magician master Medea Miranda mother NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE never night Old Brooke OLIVER GOLDSMITH Phrixus Piper poem poor Prince Prospero Robert de Baudricourt Robin Hood round rush Schoolhouse Schwartz shillings ship silver Solon spirit Squeers stanza stood story Sultan sword Sycorax Tell thee things Thornton thou thought Tiny Tim told Treasure Valley tree turned Verner vessel village voice wind wonder wood words young Zoeterwoude
Passagens mais conhecidas
Página 124 - Came through the jaws of death, Back from the mouth of hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred. When can their glory fade? Oh, the wild charge they made! All the world wondered. Honor the charge they made, Honor the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred!
Página 187 - twixt my knees on the ground ; And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine, As I poured down his throat our last measure of wine, Which (the burgesses voted by common consent) Was no more than his due who brought good news from Ghent.
Página 249 - AND it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Página 206 - So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore...
Página 203 - And lo! as he looks, on the belfry's height A glimmer, and then a gleam of light! He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns, But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight A second lamp in the belfry burns!
Página 186 - for Aix is in sight !" "How they'll greet us!" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Página 201 - If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light, — One, if by land, and two, if by sea ; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm.
Página 200 - Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ; They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God.
Página 195 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Página 156 - Nay, not so." Replied the Angel. Abou spoke more low, But cheerly still; and said, "I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow-men." The Angel wrote and vanished. The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had blessed, And lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.