Everyday Classics: Primer-eighth Reader, Book 7Macmillan, 1918 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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... round the gusty Skaw , So that our foe we saw Laugh as he hailed us . " And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping sail , Death ! was the helmsman's hail , Death without quarter ! Mid - ships with iron keel Struck we her ribs of ...
... round the gusty Skaw , So that our foe we saw Laugh as he hailed us . " And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping sail , Death ! was the helmsman's hail , Death without quarter ! Mid - ships with iron keel Struck we her ribs of ...
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... round stone tower near Newport , built like the stone - work of the early Normans , suggested the story of this poem to Longfellow . But neither the skeleton nor the tower is now believed to be Norman . The poem is in what we call ...
... round stone tower near Newport , built like the stone - work of the early Normans , suggested the story of this poem to Longfellow . But neither the skeleton nor the tower is now believed to be Norman . The poem is in what we call ...
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... round and made of the bark of trees , and wear a sword of wood at their backs , but oftentimes they use the horns of a deer , put through a 5 piece of wood in the form of a pickax , for swords . Some have a long stone sharpened at both ...
... round and made of the bark of trees , and wear a sword of wood at their backs , but oftentimes they use the horns of a deer , put through a 5 piece of wood in the form of a pickax , for swords . Some have a long stone sharpened at both ...
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... round aspect hand So , ~ , and e the s and their ptain goods , enge . es be- fight not put women and children captives to death , but keep them . They have a method in war , and for our pleasure they showed it to us . Having painted and ...
... round aspect hand So , ~ , and e the s and their ptain goods , enge . es be- fight not put women and children captives to death , but keep them . They have a method in war , and for our pleasure they showed it to us . Having painted and ...
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... round their lowly cabins . They move on with a slow , unsteady step . The white man is upon for terror or dispatch ; but they heed him not . to take a last look at their deserted villages . They turn 5 They cast a last glance upon the ...
... round their lowly cabins . They move on with a slow , unsteady step . The white man is upon for terror or dispatch ; but they heed him not . to take a last look at their deserted villages . They turn 5 They cast a last glance upon the ...
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Page 151 - We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne.
Page 373 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven.
Page 152 - In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free , if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending ; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ! I repeat it, sir, we must...
Page 285 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 289 - The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings; He sings to the wide world and she to her nest, — In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best?
Page 223 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, —...
Page 150 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past...
Page 153 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace! peace!
Page 225 - Their tinsel show, and a' that ; The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men, for a' that. Ye see yon birkie, ca'da lord, Wha struts, and stares, and a' that ; Tho' hundreds worship at his word. He's but a coof. for a' that. For a' that, and a' that, His riband, star, and a' that, The man of independent mind, He looks and laughs at a
Page 295 - And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.