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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... King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table , in Book Three ; pure literature , expressed in the works of our great American writers , in Book Four . The importance of these great cycle stories , which have delighted old and young ...
... King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table , in Book Three ; pure literature , expressed in the works of our great American writers , in Book Four . The importance of these great cycle stories , which have delighted old and young ...
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... King of Crete . In order to escape from his prison , Dædalus made wings for his son Icarus and himself , which he fastened on with wax . Icarus was warned not to fly too near the sun , but in his pride and joy at being able to do what ...
... King of Crete . In order to escape from his prison , Dædalus made wings for his son Icarus and himself , which he fastened on with wax . Icarus was warned not to fly too near the sun , but in his pride and joy at being able to do what ...
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... Play " " fairy land " " jointed grass ' ' " pied with ev'ry hue ' ' " clad in armor ' ' " leaflet " " talking nonsense " Heeding " " Stitching tucks ' " perched " THE GOLDEN TOUCH NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE * I KING MIDAS AND The Little Land 71.
... Play " " fairy land " " jointed grass ' ' " pied with ev'ry hue ' ' " clad in armor ' ' " leaflet " " talking nonsense " Heeding " " Stitching tucks ' " perched " THE GOLDEN TOUCH NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE * I KING MIDAS AND The Little Land 71.
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... KING MIDAS AND HIS LOVE FOR 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 ...
... KING MIDAS AND HIS LOVE FOR 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 ...
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... King Midas , what a 25 happy man art thou ! " Midas was enjoying himself in his treasure - room one day , as usual , when he saw a shadow fall over the heaps of gold ; and , looking suddenly up , what should he behold but the figure of ...
... King Midas , what a 25 happy man art thou ! " Midas was enjoying himself in his treasure - room one day , as usual , when he saw a shadow fall over the heaps of gold ; and , looking suddenly up , what should he behold but the figure of ...
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Aladdin Ali Baba answered arrows asked Baba beautiful bird Blefuscu boat bright called Captain Cassim cave child cried door Emperor Epimetheus eyes father flowers forest gave give gold Golden Touch green hand head heard heart HELPS TO STUDY Hiawatha horses hundred Inchcape Rock island King Midas knew Kwasind land Laughing lines which tell Little John lived look magician Marygold merry Morgiana morning mother night Nokomis Notes and Questions o'er old oaken bucket Pandora Phrases for Study poem poet Read lines Read the lines rich river Robin Hood round sail Sheriff ship shore Sindbad SINDBAD THE SAILOR song Song of Hiawatha soon stanza Star-Spangled Banner story stranger STUDY Notes Study PRONUNCIATION sweet things thought told took tree VOCABULARY voyage wild wind wings wood WORDS AND PHRASES
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Page 41 - 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 15 - 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 127 - 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 84 - 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 25 - The old oaken bucket, the ironbound bucket, The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well. That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure; For often, at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the...
Page 286 - 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, 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 85 - 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 265 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Page 286 - I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, 1 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, birth, SONNETS.
Page 92 - the Elephant Is very like a rope!" And so these men of Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong!