Elson Grammar School Readers, Book 1Scott, Foresman and Company, 1911 - Basal reading instruction Selections from American and English poets and authors. Includes brief biographical information and "helps to study." |
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William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck. APR 3-1911 LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY . ELSON GRAMMAR SCHOOL SCHOOL READER BOOK ONE BY WILLIAM H. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION REOFA / En THE SONG OF HIAWATHA - INTRODUCTION .
William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck. APR 3-1911 LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY . ELSON GRAMMAR SCHOOL SCHOOL READER BOOK ONE BY WILLIAM H. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION REOFA / En THE SONG OF HIAWATHA - INTRODUCTION .
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... HIAWATHA'S CHILDHOOD .. 296 HIAWATHA'S FRIENDS . 301 110 112 114 son . 117 son . 119 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 121 HIAWATHA'S SAILING . 305 HIAWATHA'S WOOING . 309 THE WHITE MAN'S FOOT . 317 THE PARADISE OF CHILDREN .. 327 123 Tillis ... 125 ...
... HIAWATHA'S CHILDHOOD .. 296 HIAWATHA'S FRIENDS . 301 110 112 114 son . 117 son . 119 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 121 HIAWATHA'S SAILING . 305 HIAWATHA'S WOOING . 309 THE WHITE MAN'S FOOT . 317 THE PARADISE OF CHILDREN .. 327 123 Tillis ... 125 ...
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... HIAWATHA HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW INTRODUCTION Should you ask me , whence these stories ? Whence these legends and traditions , With the odors of the forest , With the dew and damp of meadows , With the curling smoke of wigwams , With ...
... HIAWATHA HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW INTRODUCTION Should you ask me , whence these stories ? Whence these legends and traditions , With the odors of the forest , With the dew and damp of meadows , With the curling smoke of wigwams , With ...
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... Hiawatha , Sang the Song of Hiawatha , Sang his wondrous birth and being , How he prayed and how he fasted . How he lived , and toiled , and suffered , That the tribes of men might prosper , That he might advance his people ! " Ye who ...
... Hiawatha , Sang the Song of Hiawatha , Sang his wondrous birth and being , How he prayed and how he fasted . How he lived , and toiled , and suffered , That the tribes of men might prosper , That he might advance his people ! " Ye who ...
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... Hiawatha ! 5 10 17 15 20 355 25 30 HIAWATHA'S CHILDHOOD By the shores of Gitche Gumee , By the shining Big - Sea - Water , Stood the wigwam of Nokomis , Daughter of the Moon , Nokomis . Dark behind it rose the forest , Rose the black ...
... Hiawatha ! 5 10 17 15 20 355 25 30 HIAWATHA'S CHILDHOOD By the shores of Gitche Gumee , By the shining Big - Sea - Water , Stood the wigwam of Nokomis , Daughter of the Moon , Nokomis . Dark behind it rose the forest , Rose the black ...
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Aladdin Aladdin's mother Ali Baba answered arrows asked Baba Badroulbadour bird Blefuscu boat bright Caliph Captain Cassim cave cried door Elson Grammar School Emperor Epimetheus eyes flowers forest gave give gold golden Golden Touch Grammar School Reader hand heard heart HELPS TO STUDY Hiawatha hundred Inchcape Rock island isle King King Midas knew Knight lamp land laugh Lilliput lines which tell Little John lived look magician Majesty merchants Midas Morgiana morning Nokomis Notes and Questions palace Pandora Phrases for Study poem poet Read the lines rich Robin Hood Robinson Crusoe round sail School Reader Book Sheriff Sheriff of Nottingham ship shore Sindbad SINDBAD THE SAILOR slave soon stanza story STUDY Notes Study PRONUNCIATION Sultan things thou thought told took tree VOCABULARY voyage wild wind wood Words and Phrases
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Page 130 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Page 290 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong.
Page 89 - He was chubby and plump — a right jolly old elf; And I laughed, when I saw him, in spite of myself. A wink of his eye and a twist of his head Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
Page 45 - Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!" So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. "Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read.
Page 17 - Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there: O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Page 290 - I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
Page 88 - Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there...
Page 89 - He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
Page 32 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...
Page 51 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.