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. |
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... strong , and it falls opposite his brother . Hurrah ! that rush has 20 taken it right through the School line , far into their quarters , and young Brooke and the bulldogs are close it . The School leaders rush back shouting , upon ...
... strong , and it falls opposite his brother . Hurrah ! that rush has 20 taken it right through the School line , far into their quarters , and young Brooke and the bulldogs are close it . The School leaders rush back shouting , upon ...
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... strong ale , and there they christened their babe Little John , for he was seven feet high and an ell round his waist . THOMAS BULFINCH : Legends of King Arthur . HELPS TO STUDY This is another story of Robin Hood that has been told for ...
... strong ale , and there they christened their babe Little John , for he was seven feet high and an ell round his waist . THOMAS BULFINCH : Legends of King Arthur . HELPS TO STUDY This is another story of Robin Hood that has been told for ...
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... strong a hand bend a bow , or so true an eye direct a shaft . " " Pardon me , noble Prince , " said Locksley , “ but I have vowed that if ever I take service , it should be with your royal brother , King Richard . These twenty nobles 10 ...
... strong a hand bend a bow , or so true an eye direct a shaft . " " Pardon me , noble Prince , " said Locksley , “ but I have vowed that if ever I take service , it should be with your royal brother , King Richard . These twenty nobles 10 ...
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... strong box were 10 overflowing with pine - tree shillings . This was prob- ably the case when he came into possession of Grand- father's Chair : and as he had worked so hard at the mint , it was certainly proper that he should have a ...
... strong box were 10 overflowing with pine - tree shillings . This was prob- ably the case when he came into possession of Grand- father's Chair : and as he had worked so hard at the mint , it was certainly proper that he should have a ...
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... strong and sturdy frame , whose face has been roughened by northern tempests and blackened by the burning sun of the West Indies . He wears an immense periwig flowing down over his shoulders . His coat has a wide embroidery of golden 10 ...
... strong and sturdy frame , whose face has been roughened by northern tempests and blackened by the burning sun of the West Indies . He wears an immense periwig flowing down over his shoulders . His coat has a wide embroidery of golden 10 ...
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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
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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.