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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Page 70
... gold and blue ; Some have wings and swift are gone ; - But they all look kindly on . When my eyes I once again Open , and see all things plain : High bare walls , great bare floor ; Great big knobs on drawer and door ; 55 CO Great big ...
... gold and blue ; Some have wings and swift are gone ; - But they all look kindly on . When my eyes I once again Open , and see all things plain : High bare walls , great bare floor ; Great big knobs on drawer and door ; 55 CO Great big ...
Page 72
... GOLD Once upon a time , there lived a very rich man , and a king besides , whose name was Midas ; and he had a little daughter , whom nobody but myself ever heard of , and whose name I either never knew , or have entirely forgotten . So ...
... GOLD Once upon a time , there lived a very rich man , and a king besides , whose name was Midas ; and he had a little daughter , whom nobody but myself ever heard of , and whose name I either never knew , or have entirely forgotten . So ...
Page 73
... gold 15 coin , or a gold cup as big as a wash - bowl , or a heavy golden bar , or a peck - measure of gold - dust , and bring them from the obscure corners of the room into the one bright and narrow sunbeam that fell from the dungeon ...
... gold 15 coin , or a gold cup as big as a wash - bowl , or a heavy golden bar , or a peck - measure of gold - dust , and bring them from the obscure corners of the room into the one bright and narrow sunbeam that fell from the dungeon ...
Page 74
... gold as you have piled up in this room . " " I have done pretty well - pretty well , " answered Midas , in a discontented tone . " But , after all , it is but a trifle , when you consider that it has taken me my whole life to get it ...
... gold as you have piled up in this room . " " I have done pretty well - pretty well , " answered Midas , in a discontented tone . " But , after all , it is but a trifle , when you consider that it has taken me my whole life to get it ...
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... gold ! " 20 25 30 335 The stranger's smile grew so very broad , that it seemed to fill the room like an outburst of the sun gleaming into a shadowy dell , where the yellow autumnal leaves - for so looked the lumps and particles of gold ...
... gold ! " 20 25 30 335 The stranger's smile grew so very broad , that it seemed to fill the room like an outburst of the sun gleaming into a shadowy dell , where the yellow autumnal leaves - for so looked the lumps and particles of gold ...
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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.