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Σελίδα vii
These are old names ; and one of them - Arts — though it conveyed a clear enough meaning in the Middle Ages , has , through the changes which time has wrought in our ideas about education , ceased to convey a definite notion to the mind ...
These are old names ; and one of them - Arts — though it conveyed a clear enough meaning in the Middle Ages , has , through the changes which time has wrought in our ideas about education , ceased to convey a definite notion to the mind ...
Σελίδα viii
... or as a part of the business and duty of life ? Many will say at once , that their object is , to “ improve their minds ; " but this is too vague . Moreover , it is by no means clear that desultory reading does improve their minds .
... or as a part of the business and duty of life ? Many will say at once , that their object is , to “ improve their minds ; " but this is too vague . Moreover , it is by no means clear that desultory reading does improve their minds .
Σελίδα 13
So Thomas resolved to keep clear of the temptation to take too much strong drink by taking none at all . He was suprised himself to find how much money this resolve saved him . He found that he had about five shillings a - week to spare ...
So Thomas resolved to keep clear of the temptation to take too much strong drink by taking none at all . He was suprised himself to find how much money this resolve saved him . He found that he had about five shillings a - week to spare ...
Σελίδα 19
The army and the parliament having again quarrelled , Cromwell and the other commanders were denounced as traitors , and Colonel Pride was despatched to clear the house of all who were hostile to the views of the army .
The army and the parliament having again quarrelled , Cromwell and the other commanders were denounced as traitors , and Colonel Pride was despatched to clear the house of all who were hostile to the views of the army .
Σελίδα 33
Swift possessod great powers as a satirist , and his style is remarkably clear and vigorous , though many of his productions are disfigured by a tendency to offensive coarseness . IIis principal works are " Gulliver's Travels ...
Swift possessod great powers as a satirist , and his style is remarkably clear and vigorous , though many of his productions are disfigured by a tendency to offensive coarseness . IIis principal works are " Gulliver's Travels ...
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Σελίδα 25 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood...
Σελίδα 36 - I SPRANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; 'Good speed!' cried the watch, as the gatebolts undrew ; 'Speed...
Σελίδα 37 - So we were left galloping, Joris and I, Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky; The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh, 'Neath our feet broke the brittle, bright stubble like chaff; Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And "Gallop," gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight!
Σελίδα 36 - Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.
Σελίδα 224 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture of divine.
Σελίδα 97 - Aonian maids, Delight no more — O thou my voice inspire Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire ! Rapt into future times, the Bard begun : A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son...
Σελίδα 37 - 4. At Aerschot up leaped of a sudden the sun, And against him the cattle stood black every one, To stare through the mist at us galloping past ; And I saw my stout galloper, Roland, at last, With resolute shoulders, each butting away The haze, as some bluff river headland its spray : 5.
Σελίδα 37 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track ; And one eye's black intelligence, — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance ! And the thick heavy spume-flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned ; and cried Joris, " Stay spur ! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her, We'll remember at Aix...
Σελίδα 146 - Ho-ti himself, which was the more remarkable, instead of chastising his son, seemed to grow more indulgent to him than ever. At length they were watched, the terrible mystery discovered, and father and son summoned to take their trial at Pekin, then an inconsiderable assize town.
Σελίδα 225 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground I Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now.
Πληροφορίες βιβλιογραφίας
| Τίτλος | Murby's Excelsior readers, ed. by F. Young |
| Επιμελητής | Francis Young (F.R.G.S.) |
| Έκδοση | 2 |
| Εκδόθηκε | 1870 |
| Πρωτότυπο από | Πανεπιστήμιο Οξφόρδης |
| Ψηφιοποιήθηκε στις | 2 Οκτ. 2006 |
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