The Progressive Course in Reading: First[ -fifth] Book ...Butler, Sheldon & Company, 1900 |
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Alba Longa Alcott Anemone animal ANNA SEWELL asked bear beautiful birds Blackfeet brave breath Brook buckwheat called CHARLES KINGSLEY child Cliff Cree cried darning needle dear dragon earth elementary sounds eyes face fairies Fairyland of Science father fire flowers ground hair hand HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN head heard Heather horses hostler Indians insect invisible Johnny Juniper king lady land lesson letters Letty live Loki look Moon morning mosquito mother mountain never night Penn pupa rẻ Remus Reynard Romulus Romulus and Remus shepherd silent letters sleep snow soldiers Stemane stone stood story subvocal suffix SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY sunbeams sword syllable teacher tell things Third Reader Thor thought told tree voice volcanoes watched Wind Wing wonderful wood woodchuck Word analysis Words defined young
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Side 103 - ... the papers again by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my " Spectator " with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them.
Side 168 - On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Side 77 - By the light of the morn were seen Most beautiful things; there were flowers and trees; There were bevies of birds and swarms of bees; There were cities with temples and towers; and these All pictured in silver sheen!
Side 104 - I took some of the tales and turned them into verse; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.
Side 115 - THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter " Little Prig. Bun replied, " You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track ; Talents differ ; all is well and wisely put ; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither...
Side 102 - I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.
Side 212 - You know, we French stormed Ratisbon: A mile or so away, On a little mound, Napoleon Stood on our storming-day; With neck out-thrust, you fancy how, Legs wide, arms locked behind, As if to balance the prone brow Oppressive with its mind. Just as perhaps he mused "My plans That soar, to earth may fall, Let once my army-leader Lannes Waver at yonder wall...
Side 103 - I escaped being a poet, most probably a very bad one; but as prose writing has been of great use to me in the course of my life, and was a principal means of my advancement, I shall tell you how, in such a situation, I acquired what little ability I have in that way.
Side 77 - But he did one thing that was hardly fair — He peeped in the cupboard, and finding there That all had forgotten for him to prepare. "Now, just to set them a-thinking, I'll bite this basket of fruit...
Side 103 - I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it.