The Heath Readers: Primer, [First-sixth reader]D.C. Heath, 1903 - Readers |
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Page 39
... took this novel proceeding as the most natural thing in the world , and talked on about household forms and ceremonies as if we all believed that our hostess had a regular servants ' hall , second table , with housekeeper and steward ...
... took this novel proceeding as the most natural thing in the world , and talked on about household forms and ceremonies as if we all believed that our hostess had a regular servants ' hall , second table , with housekeeper and steward ...
Page 62
... took two strides , and laid hold of the broken mast . Gerard did the same , obeying him instinctively . Between them , after a prodigious effort , they hoisted up the remainder of the mast , and carried it off . " Fling it in , " said ...
... took two strides , and laid hold of the broken mast . Gerard did the same , obeying him instinctively . Between them , after a prodigious effort , they hoisted up the remainder of the mast , and carried it off . " Fling it in , " said ...
Page 63
... took his place composedly . They rolled along ; one moment they saw nothing , and seemed down in a mere basin of water hills ; the next they caught glimpses of the shore speckled bright with people , who kept throwing up their arms with ...
... took his place composedly . They rolled along ; one moment they saw nothing , and seemed down in a mere basin of water hills ; the next they caught glimpses of the shore speckled bright with people , who kept throwing up their arms with ...
Page 64
... took out of his bosom a parchment and a paper , and dried them carefully . When this was done to his mind , and not till then , he consented to put on a fisherman's dress and leave his own by the fire , and went down to the beach . What ...
... took out of his bosom a parchment and a paper , and dried them carefully . When this was done to his mind , and not till then , he consented to put on a fisherman's dress and leave his own by the fire , and went down to the beach . What ...
Page 65
... took his hand gently , and , raising it slowly to her lips , kissed it ; but so nobly , she seemed to be conferring an honor . Then , with face all beaming , and moist eyes , she held her child up , and made him kiss his preserver ...
... took his hand gently , and , raising it slowly to her lips , kissed it ; but so nobly , she seemed to be conferring an honor . Then , with face all beaming , and moist eyes , she held her child up , and made him kiss his preserver ...
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Page 338 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 264 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Page 147 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly , both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...
Page 265 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : And thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of...
Page 200 - Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Page 294 - O, now you weep ; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity ; these are gracious drops ; Kind souls ! What; weep you, when you but behold Our Ceesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Page 211 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw ; And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way.
Page 213 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Page 343 - twas, that God Himself Scarce seemed there to be. "O sweeter than the marriage-feast, 'Tis sweeter far to me. To walk togcthei to the kirk With a goodly company! — "To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray. While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends. And youths and maidens gay...
Page 339 - This seraph-band, each waved his hand, No voice did they impart No voice; but oh! the silence sank Like music on my heart.