Murby's Excelsior readers, ed. by F. YoungFrancis Young (F.R.G.S.) 1870 |
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Σελίδα vi
... Labour , The Discontented Pendulum , The 20 Earth's Crust , The . ( D. SCOTT ) 216 First Visit to the Alehouse , and its Consequences , The Five Shillings a week , and what came of it From India Good - bye to Summer ( words 100 Origin ...
... Labour , The Discontented Pendulum , The 20 Earth's Crust , The . ( D. SCOTT ) 216 First Visit to the Alehouse , and its Consequences , The Five Shillings a week , and what came of it From India Good - bye to Summer ( words 100 Origin ...
Σελίδα 31
... labour has not been great , when we take the enormous numbers of the people into consideration . The Hindoos believe in the immortality of the soul , but they also put faith in its transmigration or removal from body to body . It was ...
... labour has not been great , when we take the enormous numbers of the people into consideration . The Hindoos believe in the immortality of the soul , but they also put faith in its transmigration or removal from body to body . It was ...
Σελίδα 35
... labour and method enough ; but , by woeful experience for us both , it is too plain_the_mate- rials are naught ; and I hope you will henceforth take warning , and consider duration and matter , as well as method and art . You boast ...
... labour and method enough ; but , by woeful experience for us both , it is too plain_the_mate- rials are naught ; and I hope you will henceforth take warning , and consider duration and matter , as well as method and art . You boast ...
Σελίδα 54
... labour . It is true I was not suffered to stir out of the house , for fear , as they said , I should run away . But what of that ? I had the liberty of the whole house , and the yard before the door , and that was enough for me . I was ...
... labour . It is true I was not suffered to stir out of the house , for fear , as they said , I should run away . But what of that ? I had the liberty of the whole house , and the yard before the door , and that was enough for me . I was ...
Σελίδα 111
... labour have gone forth from the mother country . The natives , savage in their habits and retreating from the in- roads of civilization , are disappearing from the ground which they formerly occupied but failed to improve . Australia ...
... labour have gone forth from the mother country . The natives , savage in their habits and retreating from the in- roads of civilization , are disappearing from the ground which they formerly occupied but failed to improve . Australia ...
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Andrew Ford animal army Australia battle beautiful birds Britain British called Caroline of Brunswick Charles coast colour dark DAVID MACBETH MOIR death different meanings Distinguish earth England English EXCELSIOR READER falcon father favour fish fleet France French galloped George George III Give the meaning gold hand head heart heaven honour Hornblende Illustrate the different India inhabitants island John John Carson king labour land lesson light literature London Poems look Lord Lower Canada Marlborough master MEANINGS OF WORDS miles mountains never night o'er paragraph parliament PARSING passed persons poem possessed Prince reign rocks round Sandy Scotland ship snow soldiers song soon South Island stalactites surface tell thee THOMAS CROFTON CROKER thou thought took trees vaquero verse victory walk wife wind Write young zebra
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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 226 - 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 227 - 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.