The Pacific Coast First [-fifth] Reader, Volume 5A. L. Bancroft, 1875 |
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... honor to the Amer- ican name by the production of some of the finest literature of the time . His best works have a permanent value , and have been republished in both England and Ger- many . It is difficult , within the compass of a ...
... honor to the Amer- ican name by the production of some of the finest literature of the time . His best works have a permanent value , and have been republished in both England and Ger- many . It is difficult , within the compass of a ...
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... honor , belonging to a teacher or doctor of the land . Me'di æ'val , relating to the middle ages . LESSON VII . SHERIDAN'S RIDE . BY T. B. READ . Thomas Buchanan Read was born in Chester County , Penn . , in 1822. At the age of ...
... honor , belonging to a teacher or doctor of the land . Me'di æ'val , relating to the middle ages . LESSON VII . SHERIDAN'S RIDE . BY T. B. READ . Thomas Buchanan Read was born in Chester County , Penn . , in 1822. At the age of ...
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... honor ! Nicholas Copernicus , a celebrated Prussian astronomer , who was the first to main- tain that the sun was the fixed center of the solar system , around which the earth and the other planets revolved . Sir William Herschel , a ...
... honor ! Nicholas Copernicus , a celebrated Prussian astronomer , who was the first to main- tain that the sun was the fixed center of the solar system , around which the earth and the other planets revolved . Sir William Herschel , a ...
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... honor of its discovery . Then , with his faithful com- rades , he descended to the shore , and , drawing his sword , marched into the water and took possession for the king of Spain . Returning to Darien he made known his wonderful ...
... honor of its discovery . Then , with his faithful com- rades , he descended to the shore , and , drawing his sword , marched into the water and took possession for the king of Spain . Returning to Darien he made known his wonderful ...
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... honor , will soon displace me in my gov- ernment if I do not clip his wings . " So he induced the king to make the government of the South Sea subordinate to his own ; then he set afloat rumors that Vasco Nuñez , upon his broad new sea ...
... honor , will soon displace me in my gov- ernment if I do not clip his wings . " So he induced the king to make the government of the South Sea subordinate to his own ; then he set afloat rumors that Vasco Nuñez , upon his broad new sea ...
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Página 80 - Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore Nameless here for evermore.
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Página 81 - This it is and nothing more." Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, " Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you "—here I opened wide the door.
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Página 82 - But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore.
Página 83 - thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Página 263 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.