Practice Work in EnglishLongmans, Green, 1914 - 206 páginas |
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Página 145 - The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the stately stems, and ran Ev'n to the limit of the land, the glows And glories of the broad belt of the world, All these he saw ; but what he fain had seen He...
Página 96 - 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 69 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Página 109 - The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels And on a sudden, lo! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon.
Página 72 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Página 61 - The house is shown by a garrulous old lady in a frosty red face lighted up by a cold blue, anxious eye and garnished with artificial locks of flaxen hair curling from under an exceedingly dirty cap.
Página 110 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.
Página 201 - Longmans' English Classics Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems. Edited by Ashley H. Thorndike, Professor of English in Columbia University. $0.25. [For Reading.] Browning's Select Poems. Edited by Percival Chubb, formerly Director of English, Ethical Culture School, New York. $0.25. [For Reading.] Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Edited by Charles Sears Baldwin, Professor of Rhetoric in Yale University.
Página 109 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.