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... hand in hand through life , and lie down , not reluctantly , at its protracted close . To them the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams , nor the future an eternity of such moments as follow the delirium of a drunkard . Their dead ...
... hand in hand through life , and lie down , not reluctantly , at its protracted close . To them the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams , nor the future an eternity of such moments as follow the delirium of a drunkard . Their dead ...
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... hands was laid out in books . Pleased with the " Pilgrim's Progress , " my first collection was of John Bunyan's works , in separate little volumes . I afterwards sold them to enable me to buy Burton's " Historical Recollections ...
... hands was laid out in books . Pleased with the " Pilgrim's Progress , " my first collection was of John Bunyan's works , in separate little volumes . I afterwards sold them to enable me to buy Burton's " Historical Recollections ...
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... hand . 5. Then I compared my Spectator with the original , discovered my faults , and corrected them . But I found I wanted a stock of words , or a readiness in recollecting and using them , which I thought I should have acquired before ...
... hand . 5. Then I compared my Spectator with the original , discovered my faults , and corrected them . But I found I wanted a stock of words , or a readiness in recollecting and using them , which I thought I should have acquired before ...
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... hand among them . Being still a boy , and suspecting that my brother would object to printing anything of mine in his paper if he knew it to be mine , I contrived to disguise my hand , and , writing an anonymous paper , I put it at ...
... hand among them . Being still a boy , and suspecting that my brother would object to printing anything of mine in his paper if he knew it to be mine , I contrived to disguise my hand , and , writing an anonymous paper , I put it at ...
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... hands all around , and broken up our social company for ever.- Charles Dickens . SUMMARY . - Our vessel sailed gallantly along before a favouring wind . On the 27th of June Cape Clear was in sight - looking like a distant cloud . It was ...
... hands all around , and broken up our social company for ever.- Charles Dickens . SUMMARY . - Our vessel sailed gallantly along before a favouring wind . On the 27th of June Cape Clear was in sight - looking like a distant cloud . It was ...
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Adjectives are formed Barm Barmacide battle began Ben Wyvis Bo-bo born brave called Captain Phipps castle Charles Dickens cloth clouds crew cried cuirassiers death deck enemy England English Erckmann-Chatrian exact meaning EXERCISES.-1 father Fcap fire fish formed by adding formed from nouns Franklin Give the exact Gout green hand happy Hardy Haroun Al-Raschid head heard heaven Ho-ti holly-tree honour horse king land Learn to labour leaves lesson live look master morning Moses never night Nouns are formed o'er Parse Parse and analyse-The perioeci pleasure poems poet poor pron QUESTIONS River Teith round sailors sails Sally Brown Saracen sentences to show Shac Shacabac ship silver soon SUMMARY.-The thee things thou tion treasure verbs vessel Warwick Castle wife wild wind Winkle words young youth
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Page 231 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below — As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow! When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow. The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn; Till danger's troubled night depart And the star of peace return. Then, then, ye ocean warriors ! Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow!
Page 228 - Then they rode back, but not, Not the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Volleyed and thundered...
Page 94 - ... would certainly have stoned them for a couple of abominable wretches who could think of improving upon the good meat which God had sent them. Nevertheless, strange stories got about. It was observed that Ho-ti's cottage was burnt down now more frequently than ever. Nothing but fires from this time forward.
Page 190 - Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers; And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook; Or by a cider-press, with patient look, Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
Page 16 - I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it.
Page 189 - And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease ; For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 62 - And first one universal shriek there rush'd, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows; but at intervals there gush'd, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony.
Page 145 - I gazed— and gazed— but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.
Page 228 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred.
Page 113 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.