Stepping Stones to Literature, Libro 8Silver, Burdett, 1898 - 317 páginas |
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... seen at this day . This wall defended the Britons for a time , and the Scots and Picts were shut out from the fine rich land , and in- closed within their own mountains . But they were very much displeased with this , and assembled ...
... seen at this day . This wall defended the Britons for a time , and the Scots and Picts were shut out from the fine rich land , and in- closed within their own mountains . But they were very much displeased with this , and assembled ...
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... lawn , Thy sports are fled , and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amid thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen , And desolation saddens all thy green : 50 STEPPING STONES TO LITERATURE . One only master grasps THE DESERTED VILLAGE . 49.
... lawn , Thy sports are fled , and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amid thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen , And desolation saddens all thy green : 50 STEPPING STONES TO LITERATURE . One only master grasps THE DESERTED VILLAGE . 49.
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... seen , Indignant spurns the cottage from the green ; Around the world each needful product flies , For all the luxuries the world supplies . While thus the land adorned for pleasure , all In barren splendor feebly waits the fall . As ...
... seen , Indignant spurns the cottage from the green ; Around the world each needful product flies , For all the luxuries the world supplies . While thus the land adorned for pleasure , all In barren splendor feebly waits the fall . As ...
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... seen it roll up its legs like a ball , and lie motionless for hours together , but cautiously watching all the time ; when a fly happened to approach sufficiently near , it would dart out all at once , and often seize its prey . Of this ...
... seen it roll up its legs like a ball , and lie motionless for hours together , but cautiously watching all the time ; when a fly happened to approach sufficiently near , it would dart out all at once , and often seize its prey . Of this ...
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... seen any men lurking about the house ? " " Oh , yes ! " answered Miss Pole . " Two very bad - look- ing men have gone three times past the house , very slowly ; and an Irish beggar - woman came not half an hour ago , and all but forced ...
... seen any men lurking about the house ? " " Oh , yes ! " answered Miss Pole . " Two very bad - look- ing men have gone three times past the house , very slowly ; and an Irish beggar - woman came not half an hour ago , and all but forced ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abbot Achaians Alexandros answer Ariel arms Balclutha battle behold Belshazzar Bingen brother Bruce Buckingham burning fiery furnace called Campeius cardinal Carthon Clessámmor cloud Comyn Cromwell dark daughter dear death duke enemy England English eyes father fear fell Fingal friends Gentleman give grace Guenever hand hath head hear heard heart heaven honor horse John of Lorn JOHN RUSKIN JOSEPH ADDISON King Arthur King Henry king's lady land live looked Lord Menelaos mighty Miranda Moina Nebuchadnezzar never night noble Norfolk Pickwick Picts pleasure poem poor pray Priam princes Prospero Queen Katherine Reader Robert Robert the Bruce round Scotland Scots ship Sir Bedivere Sir Lucan Sir Modred soul spake speak spear spider STEPPING STONES STONES TO LITERATURE stood Suffolk Surrey sword tell thee thing Thomas Bulfinch thought Trojans unto voice wild Winkle Wolsey words
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Página 68 - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we...
Página 187 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Página 184 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Página 113 - He heard the deep behind him, and a cry Before. His own thought drove him like a goad. Dry clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels — And on a sudden, lo ! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon.
Página 188 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Página 55 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place: The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Página 109 - Came on the shining levels of the lake. There drew he forth the brand Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt : For all the haft twinkled with diamond sparks, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery.
Página 82 - Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the . joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Página 196 - In memory of the man but for whom had gone to wrack All that France saved from the fight whence England bore the bell. Go to Paris : rank on rank Search the heroes flung pell-mell On the Louvre, face and flank ! You shall look long enough ere you come to Herve
Página 190 - ON the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred ninety-two, Did the English fight the French, — woe to France ! And, the thirty-first of May, helter-skelter through the blue, Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue, Came crowding ship on ship to St. Malo on the Ranee, With the English fleet in view.