The Jones Readers by Grades: Book one-[eight], Book 8Ginn, 1904 - Readers |
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... blood was frozen slowly , And her eyes were darkened wholly , Turned to towered Camelot . For ere she reached upon the tide The first house by the water - side , Singing in her song she died , The Lady of Shalott . Under tower and ...
... blood was frozen slowly , And her eyes were darkened wholly , Turned to towered Camelot . For ere she reached upon the tide The first house by the water - side , Singing in her song she died , The Lady of Shalott . Under tower and ...
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... blood , And as a stranger to my heart and me 10 Hold thee , from this , for ever . . . . Kent . Lear . Peace , Kent ! Good my liege , - Come not between the dragon and his wrath . . . . [ LEAR gives the crown to the DUKES OF CORNWALL ...
... blood , And as a stranger to my heart and me 10 Hold thee , from this , for ever . . . . Kent . Lear . Peace , Kent ! Good my liege , - Come not between the dragon and his wrath . . . . [ LEAR gives the crown to the DUKES OF CORNWALL ...
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... blood and his own . " " Some blood I may have lost , " said the youth , looking down ; " but it was where my best is due ; and that is in 5 Your Majesty's service . " The Queen paused , and then said hastily , " You are very young to ...
... blood and his own . " " Some blood I may have lost , " said the youth , looking down ; " but it was where my best is due ; and that is in 5 Your Majesty's service . " The Queen paused , and then said hastily , " You are very young to ...
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... blood- rusted key . the goats Messiah : the anointed ; one consecrated to a holy purpose . and the sheep : see Matthew xxv . 33. - the Delphic cave : the ancient Greeks believed that they could learn the will of the gods through oracles ...
... blood- rusted key . the goats Messiah : the anointed ; one consecrated to a holy purpose . and the sheep : see Matthew xxv . 33. - the Delphic cave : the ancient Greeks believed that they could learn the will of the gods through oracles ...
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... blood . The applause of list'ning senates to command , The threats of pain and ruin to despise , To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land , And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes , Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their ...
... blood . The applause of list'ning senates to command , The threats of pain and ruin to despise , To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land , And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes , Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their ...
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Abridged American Aristophanes beauty bells birds Bishop of Beauvais blood boat called Camelot clouds Cordelia Cromwell dark death Domrémy doth dream earth English poet eyes famous fear feet fire flame Florac galloped Glass-coachman glory gold grace grass hand head heard heart heaven hold in fee honor Hoopoe human Indian JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY JOHN RUSKIN king labor Lady of Shalott laugh Lear light live Lochiel Lofoden look lord Maelström Middleton mighty mind morning nature never night NOTE o'er peace Peisthetairus poems poor pride prince Queen RICHARD REALF river rolling round seemed selection is taken soul spirit stand stars stone stood sweet tell thee things THOMAS CARLYLE thou thought toil truth turned watch waves weary WILLIAM WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE wind word young youth ZITKALA-SA
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Page 169 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Page 164 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 159 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Page 317 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble...
Page 316 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 111 - Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts, and wakes ; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Page 110 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams...
Page 294 - for Aix is in sight!" "How they'll greet us!" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Page 294 - twixt my knees on the ground, And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine, As I poured down his throat our last measure of wine, Which (the burgesses voted by common consent) Was no more than his due who brought good news from Ghent.
Page 169 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings : for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.