Elson Grammar School ReaderScott, Foresman, 1911 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Aladdin Ali Baba answered arrows asked Baba beautiful birds Blefuscu boat bright called Captain Cassim cave child cried door Emperor Epimetheus eyes father flowers forest gave give gold Golden Touch hand heard heart HELPS TO STUDY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Hiawatha horses hundred Inchcape Rock island King Midas knew Kwasind lamp land Laughing Lilliput lines which tell Little John lived looked magician Majesty Marygold Morgiana morning night Nokomis Notes and Questions o'er old oaken bucket palace Pandora Phrases for Study poem poet Read lines Read the lines rich river Robin Hood round sail Sheriff ship shore Sindbad SINDBAD THE SAILOR slave song soon stanza story stranger STUDY Notes Study PRONUNCIATION Sultan sweet things thought told took tree VOCABULARY voyage wild wind wings wood WORDS AND PHRASES
Pasajes populares
Página 130 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Página 288 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
Página 96 - the Elephant Is very like a rope !" And so these men of Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right And all were in the wrong!
Página 89 - He was chubby and plump — a right jolly old elf — And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself. A wink of his eye and a twist of his head Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
Página 17 - Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there: O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines on the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled...
Página 29 - The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, 29 That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure; For often, at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing, And quick to the...
Página 88 - TWAS the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there...
Página 89 - He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack His eyes how they twinkled!
Página 267 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Página 274 - And look at the broad-faced sun, how he smiles On the dewy earth that smiles in his ray, On the leaping waters and gay young isles ; Ay, look, and he'll smile thy gloom away.