The Improved illustrated reader, Book 4 |
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adjective adverb battle battle of Morgarten beneath boat body brave bright called cheer cloth coal coffee containing crab cried danger dashed domino-box drink England English EXERCISES.-1 eyes father Fcap feet fell fire flower-pot fruit Gelert Gessler gold golden Grace Darling ground he-roes heard heart hedgehog hero hero among heroes hill horse Iceland Inchcape Inchcape Rock interrogative sentences Islands kind king Lake of Lucerne land laughed light lion live Longstone looked monkey morning mountain never night noble Norman o'er Parse-The plant Post 8vo Primmins pron quagga QUESTIONS reindeer Ring Rip Van Winkle rocks sailed sailors sentences to show ship shore sign the pledge sledge snow soldiers song soon sound spider Splügen stood storm strong SUMMARY.-The tell thought to-day trees verb vessel voyage waves White Ship wild William wind Wolf wolves words
Popular passages
Page 63 - And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever...
Page 68 - Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear — They shook the depths of the desert's gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Page 28 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 159 - HE clasps the crag with hooked hands : Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Page 62 - I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Page 201 - Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock.
Page 63 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.
Page 129 - King James did rushing come. Scarce could they hear, or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close. They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth And fiends in upper air; O life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.
Page 28 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light : The year is dying in the night ; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 64 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.