Choice Literature...for Intermediate Grades, Livro 1Sheldon, 1898 |
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... live many years and receive my son's grati- tude . " The Magician replied , " Aladdin is a good boy . He attends to what I say , and I have no doubt but we shall be proud of him . I am sorry that I cannot hire the shop to - morrow , for ...
... live many years and receive my son's grati- tude . " The Magician replied , " Aladdin is a good boy . He attends to what I say , and I have no doubt but we shall be proud of him . I am sorry that I cannot hire the shop to - morrow , for ...
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... lives . " Aladdin very gladly started on his errand . He went down the steps and found the halls just as they had been described by the Magician . He passed through them with the greatest care , entered the garden , and mounted the ...
... lives . " Aladdin very gladly started on his errand . He went down the steps and found the halls just as they had been described by the Magician . He passed through them with the greatest care , entered the garden , and mounted the ...
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... live with him , and be his playfellow and helpmate . Her name was Pandora . The first thing that Pandora saw , when she entered the cottage where Epimetheus dwelt , was a great box . And almost the first question which she put to him ...
... live with him , and be his playfellow and helpmate . Her name was Pandora . The first thing that Pandora saw , when she entered the cottage where Epimetheus dwelt , was a great box . And almost the first question which she put to him ...
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... and ever ? " " As long as you need me , " said Hope , with her pleasant smile , " and that will be as long as you live in the world , I promise never to desert you . There may come times and seasons , now and then 52 CHOICE LITERATURE.
... and ever ? " " As long as you need me , " said Hope , with her pleasant smile , " and that will be as long as you live in the world , I promise never to desert you . There may come times and seasons , now and then 52 CHOICE LITERATURE.
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... live on this earth . Trust in my promise , for it is true . " And so they did ; and not only they , but so has everybody trusted Hope , that has since been alive . And to tell you the truth , I cannot help being glad · ( though to be ...
... live on this earth . Trust in my promise , for it is true . " And so they did ; and not only they , but so has everybody trusted Hope , that has since been alive . And to tell you the truth , I cannot help being glad · ( though to be ...
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Aladdin Aladdin's mother ALFRED TENNYSON asked barefoot boy Baucis beautiful began brought Captain John Hull Captain Phips Christian cottage cried Dame Van Winkle DANIEL DEFOE dear dogs door dressed Epimetheus eyes face flowers fowling Genius gold gone Grandfather's chair grapes grew guests guilders hand head heard heart hill JOHN BUNYAN kind knew knot lamp little voice live looked Magician milk mountain NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE naughty never night old Philemon palace Pandora Peter Stuyvesant Philemon and Baucis pieces pipe Piper pitcher poor Porter pretty Princess Quicksilver raft rats replied rich Rip Van Winkle Rip's seemed seen ship shore side silver Sir William Phips slaves smile soon staff stood strange stranger Sultan supper sure talking tell thee things thou thought told took uncle village voice WASHINGTON IRVING Weser wife wonderful
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Página 129 - And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking:
Página 116 - Oh, Rip Van Winkle" exclaimed two or three. "Oh, to be sure! That's Rip Van Winkle yonder, leaning against the tree." Rip looked, and beheld a precise counterpart of himself as he went up the mountain; apparently as lazy, and certainly as ragged. The poor fellow was now completely confounded. He doubted his own identity, and whether he was himself or another man. In the midst of his bewilderment, the man in the cocked hat demanded who he was, and what was his name? "God knows!
Página 97 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch, of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the -west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers.
Página 103 - ... a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third. Here they used to sit in the shade through a long lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over village gossip or telling endless sleepy stories about nothing.
Página 132 - Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives.
Página 101 - Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound.
Página 102 - ... terrors of a woman's tongue ? The moment Wolf entered the house his crest fell, his tail drooped to the ground, or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation.
Página 119 - He recollected Rip at once, and corroborated his story in the most satisfactory manner. He assured the company that it was a fact, handed down from his ancestor the historian, that the Kaatskill Mountains had always been haunted by strange beings. That it was affirmed that the great Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years with his crew of the Half- moon...
Página 128 - HAMELIN Town's in Brunswick , By famous Hanover city ; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side ; A pleasanter spot you never spied ; But, when begins my ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin, was a pity.
Página 100 - It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons.