Poetry for children, selected and arranged with notes by E.A. Helps, Volume 3Edmund Arthur Helps 1884 |
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... look for meanings , I would recom- mend that the notes relating to the verses under study be copied , and the copy used with the text . The copying of the notes would not only help to impress the meanings , & c . , upon the child's ...
... look for meanings , I would recom- mend that the notes relating to the verses under study be copied , and the copy used with the text . The copying of the notes would not only help to impress the meanings , & c . , upon the child's ...
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... looks about ; Which way to turn she cannot tell . Poor Betty ! it would ease her pain 265 If she had heart to knock again ; 270 . -The clock strikes three - a dismal knell ! Then up along the town she hies , No wonder if her senses fail ...
... looks about ; Which way to turn she cannot tell . Poor Betty ! it would ease her pain 265 If she had heart to knock again ; 270 . -The clock strikes three - a dismal knell ! Then up along the town she hies , No wonder if her senses fail ...
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... looks again - her arms are up- She screams — she cannot move for joy : She darts , as with a torrent's force , She almost has o'erturn'd the horse , 375 And fast she holds her Idiot Boy . And Johnny burrs , and laughs aloud ; Whether in ...
... looks again - her arms are up- She screams — she cannot move for joy : She darts , as with a torrent's force , She almost has o'erturn'd the horse , 375 And fast she holds her Idiot Boy . And Johnny burrs , and laughs aloud ; Whether in ...
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... look'd at her : The little birds began to stir , 400 405 Though yet their tongues were still . The pony , Betty , and her boy , Wind slowly through the woody dale ; And who is she , betimes abroad , That hobbles up the steep rough road ...
... look'd at her : The little birds began to stir , 400 405 Though yet their tongues were still . The pony , Betty , and her boy , Wind slowly through the woody dale ; And who is she , betimes abroad , That hobbles up the steep rough road ...
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... looks down Upon her own calm mirror , Upon a sleeping town ; For Bregenz , 2 that quaint city Upon the Tyrol shore , 20 8 Has stood above Lake Constance A thousand years and more . Her battlements and towers Upon their rocky steep Have ...
... looks down Upon her own calm mirror , Upon a sleeping town ; For Bregenz , 2 that quaint city Upon the Tyrol shore , 20 8 Has stood above Lake Constance A thousand years and more . Her battlements and towers Upon their rocky steep Have ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
alludes appear bear beauty beneath Bessy blood body bound breath called cause close clouds comes cried dark dead dear death deed deep doth earth expression eyes face fair fall fanciful father fear feeling field fire follow give grave green hand happy hath head hear heard heart heaven hill hope horse hour kind king knight lady land leave light live look lord means mind morning nature never noble noise o'er once Page pain pass poor pretty pride properly refers rest rising round seems seen Shylock side sight smile soul sound speak spirit stand stream strength sweet tears tell thee things thou thought true turn voice wave wild wind wood young youth ΙΟ
Passagens conhecidas
Página 172 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Página 221 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Página 121 - And there was mounting in hot haste ; the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Página 100 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Página 202 - Duty! if that name thou love, Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity!
Página 221 - Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Página 99 - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly...
Página 174 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Página 101 - There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school ; A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew ; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Página 240 - Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made • And crowns for convoy put into his purse : We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.