The Jones Readers by Grades: Book one-[eight], Book 8Ginn, 1904 - Readers |
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... Scott 91 George Eliot 99 William Jones THE MARCH OF THE MARSEILLAIS . WE SEE DIMLY IN THE PRESENT QUEEN MAB ( from " Romeo and Juliet " ) James Russell Lowell 110 William Shakespeare 112 PAGE GALLEY SONG TRUTH . · BIRDS AND MEN . 5.
... Scott 91 George Eliot 99 William Jones THE MARCH OF THE MARSEILLAIS . WE SEE DIMLY IN THE PRESENT QUEEN MAB ( from " Romeo and Juliet " ) James Russell Lowell 110 William Shakespeare 112 PAGE GALLEY SONG TRUTH . · BIRDS AND MEN . 5.
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... TRUTH . · BIRDS AND MEN . A WALK IN WINTER PEACE • • Robert Browning 241 Oliver Wendell Holmes 245 • Matthew Arnold 250 Mary Russell Mitford 252 Charles Sumner 256 • IMMUTABLE JUSTICE LOCHIEL'S WARNING · • Edmund Burke 260 Thomas ...
... TRUTH . · BIRDS AND MEN . A WALK IN WINTER PEACE • • Robert Browning 241 Oliver Wendell Holmes 245 • Matthew Arnold 250 Mary Russell Mitford 252 Charles Sumner 256 • IMMUTABLE JUSTICE LOCHIEL'S WARNING · • Edmund Burke 260 Thomas ...
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... truth and sincerity that are in them , by the place you desire to take in this company of 25 the Dead . No book is worth anything which is not worth much ; nor is it serviceable until it has been read , and reread , and loved , and ...
... truth and sincerity that are in them , by the place you desire to take in this company of 25 the Dead . No book is worth anything which is not worth much ; nor is it serviceable until it has been read , and reread , and loved , and ...
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... truths . Emerson taught 5 the world many lessons ; one of them , which had already been put into words by Wordsworth , was that plain living and high thinking go well together . He was loved and respected by all who knew him . Daughters ...
... truths . Emerson taught 5 the world many lessons ; one of them , which had already been put into words by Wordsworth , was that plain living and high thinking go well together . He was loved and respected by all who knew him . Daughters ...
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... truth , then , be thy dower : • Here I disclaim all my paternal care , Propinquity and property of blood , And as a stranger to my heart and me 10 Hold thee , from this , for ever . . . . Kent . Lear . Peace , Kent ! Good my liege ...
... truth , then , be thy dower : • Here I disclaim all my paternal care , Propinquity and property of blood , And as a stranger to my heart and me 10 Hold thee , from this , for ever . . . . Kent . Lear . Peace , Kent ! Good my liege ...
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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.