Journeys Through Bookland: A New and Original Plan for Reading Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children, Volume 4Bellows-Reeve, 1922 - 352 pages |
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... close ; Better than gold is the poor man's sleep , And the balm that drops on his slumbers deep . Bring sleeping draughts to the downy bed , Where luxury pillows its aching head , The toiler simple opiate deems A shorter route to the ...
... close ; Better than gold is the poor man's sleep , And the balm that drops on his slumbers deep . Bring sleeping draughts to the downy bed , Where luxury pillows its aching head , The toiler simple opiate deems A shorter route to the ...
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... close to the rafters of a little story- and - a - half frame house . The language , as first published , was not composed , it came . I had just a little more to do with it than I had to do with the coming of the rain . This poem , in ...
... close to the rafters of a little story- and - a - half frame house . The language , as first published , was not composed , it came . I had just a little more to do with it than I had to do with the coming of the rain . This poem , in ...
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... close that they cut off their water , and albeit the Castillians would have sallied against them , my Cid forbade this . In this guise were my Cid and his people besieged for three weeks , and when the fourth week began , he called for ...
... close that they cut off their water , and albeit the Castillians would have sallied against them , my Cid forbade this . In this guise were my Cid and his people besieged for three weeks , and when the fourth week began , he called for ...
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... close , that the food of the Moors failed , and they had no strength to defend themselves ; and they would willingly have yielded the castle , so they might have been permitted to leave it and go whither they would ; but he would have ...
... close , that the food of the Moors failed , and they had no strength to defend themselves ; and they would willingly have yielded the castle , so they might have been permitted to leave it and go whither they would ; but he would have ...
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... close together , And in hushed and tender tone Ask each other's full forgiveness For the wrong that each has done . Should you wonder why this custom At the ending of the day , Eye and voice would quickly answer : " It was once our ...
... close together , And in hushed and tender tone Ask each other's full forgiveness For the wrong that each has done . Should you wonder why this custom At the ending of the day , Eye and voice would quickly answer : " It was once our ...
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Popular passages
Page 81 - It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise! He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes.
Page 449 - And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.
Page 83 - THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company.
Page 165 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.
Page 55 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling, And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel, And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Page 258 - Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar. And the LORD said unto him, Ihis is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed : I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
Page 84 - Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the Northeast, The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain The vessel in its strength; She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length.
Page 80 - And children coming home from school, Look in at the open door ; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
Page 304 - Percy present word, He would prevent his sport. The English Earl, not fearing that, Did to the woods resort With fifteen hundred bowmen bold, All chosen men of might, Who knew full well, in time of need, To aim their shafts aright.
Page 301 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down: And darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.