The Sprague Classic Readers: Book 1-5, Book 5, Part 2New York, 1904 - Readers |
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Page 14
... is a loss he can never make whole again . Such is the consequence of crime . Its effects cannot be eradicated , they can only be forgiven . -II . W. Beecher , THE KNIGHT OF THE CLOAK . They were soon launched 14 Purity of Character.
... is a loss he can never make whole again . Such is the consequence of crime . Its effects cannot be eradicated , they can only be forgiven . -II . W. Beecher , THE KNIGHT OF THE CLOAK . They were soon launched 14 Purity of Character.
Page 15
... soon launched on the princely bosom of the broad Thames , upon which the sun now shone forth in all its splendor . " There are two things scarce matched in the universe , " said Walter to Blount- " the sun in heaven and the Thames on ...
... soon launched on the princely bosom of the broad Thames , upon which the sun now shone forth in all its splendor . " There are two things scarce matched in the universe , " said Walter to Blount- " the sun in heaven and the Thames on ...
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... soon brought their little skiff under the stern of the queen's boat , where she sat beneath an awning , attended by two or three ladies and the nobles of her household . She looked more than once at the wherry in which the young adven ...
... soon brought their little skiff under the stern of the queen's boat , where she sat beneath an awning , attended by two or three ladies and the nobles of her household . She looked more than once at the wherry in which the young adven ...
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... Soon she felt nothing but a supreme immediate longing that curtained off all futurity the longing to lie down and sleep . She had arrived at a spot where her footsteps were no longer checked by a hedgerow , and she had wandered vaguely ...
... Soon she felt nothing but a supreme immediate longing that curtained off all futurity the longing to lie down and sleep . She had arrived at a spot where her footsteps were no longer checked by a hedgerow , and she had wandered vaguely ...
Page 32
... soon as he had opened it there was the cry of " mammy " again , which Silas had not heard since the child's first hungry waking . Bending forward , he could just discern the marks made by the little feet on the virgin snow , and he ...
... soon as he had opened it there was the cry of " mammy " again , which Silas had not heard since the child's first hungry waking . Bending forward , he could just discern the marks made by the little feet on the virgin snow , and he ...
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Popular passages
Page 171 - The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed ; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Page 87 - Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea...
Page 215 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 183 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky: I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.
Page 148 - Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil...
Page 23 - The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings; He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest, — In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best?
Page 117 - On this I ponder Where'er I wander And thus grow fonder, Sweet Cork, of thee, — With thy bells of Shandon, That sound so grand on The pleasant waters Of the river Lee.
Page 212 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled, men, will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government ; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Page 211 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Page 216 - What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells How it dwells On the Future ; how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!