Murby's Excelsior readers, ed. by F. YoungFrancis Young (F.R.G.S.) 1870 |
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... wife what to do with this five shillings , and they settled to put it in a building society which had lately been formed . So Thomas Brown took five fifty - pound shares , and paid his five shillings a - week to the society ; while his ...
... wife what to do with this five shillings , and they settled to put it in a building society which had lately been formed . So Thomas Brown took five fifty - pound shares , and paid his five shillings a - week to the society ; while his ...
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... wife , she pictured a dismal future , and burst into tears . After their cheerless supper , Robert went out , but , instead of going to the Red Lion , he looked in to see his neighbour Thomas ' and ask him what he was going to do ; for ...
... wife , she pictured a dismal future , and burst into tears . After their cheerless supper , Robert went out , but , instead of going to the Red Lion , he looked in to see his neighbour Thomas ' and ask him what he was going to do ; for ...
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... wife comfortable , and given her what she wanted for the house . " " I know you have , " answered Thomas ; " but my wife and I agreed to put the five shillings a - week we could spare into the building society , and now we have twenty ...
... wife comfortable , and given her what she wanted for the house . " " I know you have , " answered Thomas ; " but my wife and I agreed to put the five shillings a - week we could spare into the building society , and now we have twenty ...
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... wife , who had been Countess of Essex , was dismissed from court . Villiers was an Englishman , whose only recommendation to the royal favour had been his handsome person . From being a page at court , he rose by rapid strides to the ...
... wife , who had been Countess of Essex , was dismissed from court . Villiers was an Englishman , whose only recommendation to the royal favour had been his handsome person . From being a page at court , he rose by rapid strides to the ...
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... wife's sister , joined him , adherents came in every day . James had hope until Anne deserted him ; when , seeing his child taking part with his enemies , he fled from the country and sought refuge at St. Germains , in France . He died ...
... wife's sister , joined him , adherents came in every day . James had hope until Anne deserted him ; when , seeing his child taking part with his enemies , he fled from the country and sought refuge at St. Germains , in France . He died ...
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Page 25 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood...
Page 36 - I SPRANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; 'Good speed!' cried the watch, as the gatebolts undrew ; 'Speed...
Page 37 - So we were left galloping, Joris and I, Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky; The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh, 'Neath our feet broke the brittle, bright stubble like chaff; Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And "Gallop," gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight!
Page 36 - Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.
Page 226 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture of divine.
Page 97 - Aonian maids, Delight no more — O thou my voice inspire Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire ! Rapt into future times, the Bard begun : A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son...
Page 37 - 4. At Aerschot up leaped of a sudden the sun, And against him the cattle stood black every one, To stare through the mist at us galloping past ; And I saw my stout galloper, Roland, at last, With resolute shoulders, each butting away The haze, as some bluff river headland its spray : 5.
Page 37 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track ; And one eye's black intelligence, — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance ! And the thick heavy spume-flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned ; and cried Joris, " Stay spur ! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her, We'll remember at Aix...
Page 146 - Ho-ti himself, which was the more remarkable, instead of chastising his son, seemed to grow more indulgent to him than ever. At length they were watched, the terrible mystery discovered, and father and son summoned to take their trial at Pekin, then an inconsiderable assize town.
Page 227 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground I Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now.