Relfe brothers' model reading-books, in prose and verse, ed., with notes and intr. by R.F. Charles, Volum 1Richard Fletcher Charles 1882 |
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Pàgina 23
... answered , " Mr. Broadaxe , I do try . " He stood as usual in the doorway , watching his friend as he went down the road ; and when that pleasant sight was no more to be seen Casper looked round upon the village . He could see a good ...
... answered , " Mr. Broadaxe , I do try . " He stood as usual in the doorway , watching his friend as he went down the road ; and when that pleasant sight was no more to be seen Casper looked round upon the village . He could see a good ...
Pàgina 26
... answer : having given the matter into Casper's hands she troubled . herself no further , but stood there with her finger in her mouth , as though her cat had been up a tree instead of down a well . Casper looked about ; there were the ...
... answer : having given the matter into Casper's hands she troubled . herself no further , but stood there with her finger in her mouth , as though her cat had been up a tree instead of down a well . Casper looked about ; there were the ...
Pàgina 44
... answered : ' Please you , Sir Christopher , he is a country fellow , who troubles us to give him something to do of the carving work . ' " Hearing this , the great architect - you know who he was , don't you ? " " Yes , Sir Christopher ...
... answered : ' Please you , Sir Christopher , he is a country fellow , who troubles us to give him something to do of the carving work . ' " Hearing this , the great architect - you know who he was , don't you ? " " Yes , Sir Christopher ...
Pàgina 49
... answer them : " A poet of the land was he , Born in the rude , but good old times ; ' Tis said he made some quaint old rhymes On planting the apple - tree . " Bryant . XI . A JEALOUS CAT . My constant companion at meal - times , and ...
... answer them : " A poet of the land was he , Born in the rude , but good old times ; ' Tis said he made some quaint old rhymes On planting the apple - tree . " Bryant . XI . A JEALOUS CAT . My constant companion at meal - times , and ...
Pàgina 68
... answered by some of the herd , and the sooner we are off the better . " Humphrey , who had the reins , drove off ; the heifer followed , at one time running at the dog , at another putting her head almost into the hind part of the cart ...
... answered by some of the herd , and the sooner we are off the better . " Humphrey , who had the reins , drove off ; the heifer followed , at one time running at the dog , at another putting her head almost into the hind part of the cart ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 53 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory!
Pàgina 118 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Pàgina 53 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Pàgina 42 - Stop thief! stop thief! — a highwayman! Not one of them was mute; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race.
Pàgina 39 - Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay ; And there he threw the wash about On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wond'ring much To see how he did ride Stop, stop, John Gilpin !— Here's the house — They all at once did cry ; The dinner waits and we are tired...
Pàgina 38 - And every soul cried out, Well done ! As loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin — who but he ? His fame soon spread around, He carries weight ! he rides a race ! Tis for a thousand pound...
Pàgina 72 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Pàgina 156 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Pàgina 28 - Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray: And, when I crossed the wild, I chanced to see at break of day The solitary child. No mate, no comrade Lucy knew; She dwelt on a wide moor, — The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door ! You yet may spy the fawn at play, The hare upon the green; But the sweet face of Lucy Gray Will never more be seen. " To-night will be a stormy night — You to the town must go; And take a lantern, Child, to light Your mother through the snow.
Pàgina 35 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear — Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. My sister, and my sister's child, Myself, and children three, Will £11 the chaise; so you must ride On horseback after we.