The first (-sixth) 'Standard' reader, Volumen6 |
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Página 14
... wives and children . It is impossible to support , for any length of time , a state of perfect idleness ; and if you were to shut a man up for any length of time within four walls , without occupation , he would go mad . If idleness do ...
... wives and children . It is impossible to support , for any length of time , a state of perfect idleness ; and if you were to shut a man up for any length of time within four walls , without occupation , he would go mad . If idleness do ...
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... wife replied , that the wind was in a good quarter , and that it would be dark before their work could be completed ... wife , see what it says ; you can read writing better than I. " The wife took the paper and read these words ...
... wife replied , that the wind was in a good quarter , and that it would be dark before their work could be completed ... wife , see what it says ; you can read writing better than I. " The wife took the paper and read these words ...
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... wife , and children . Give the purse to this unfortunate family who have lost their all . " THE IRISHMAN AND THE HARE . AN Irishman was once employed by a gentleman at Hampstead to carry a living hare as a present to one of his friends ...
... wife , and children . Give the purse to this unfortunate family who have lost their all . " THE IRISHMAN AND THE HARE . AN Irishman was once employed by a gentleman at Hampstead to carry a living hare as a present to one of his friends ...
Página 45
... wife and four children should be brought to him on the fatal spot , to see if their entreaties could shake his firmness . Throwing themselves on their knees before the chief , they besought him , with tears and prayers , to accept the ...
... wife and four children should be brought to him on the fatal spot , to see if their entreaties could shake his firmness . Throwing themselves on their knees before the chief , they besought him , with tears and prayers , to accept the ...
Página 46
... wife , and teach my sons to remember the example I am about to give them , and to serve their country , as I have done , honorably and faith- fully to the last . Farewell , my children ! remember the last words of your father - War ...
... wife , and teach my sons to remember the example I am about to give them , and to serve their country , as I have done , honorably and faith- fully to the last . Farewell , my children ! remember the last words of your father - War ...
Términos y frases comunes
animals appeared arms birds boat bobolink called carte de visite child coin Conrad cottage creature cried Cullera door elephant emperor eyes father fear feet fire fustian garden gave George Stephenson give gold half hand head heard heart horse insects king labor larvæ leaves length light Lisette living London look Lord lost Ludgate Hill MASSACRE OF GLENCOE master mind morning mountains Naoman nature never night noble o'er once passed pointer dog poor Prince pron quadrupeds Quoth the Raven replied rocks round sail seen ship shore soldier soon STANDARD stood stream tell thing third doctor thou thought told took trees turn village walked White Ship whole wife wild Willie Watson Winchburgh words young Zouaves
Pasajes populares
Página 265 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,— " Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore !" Quoth the Raven,
Página 282 - May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees...
Página 67 - In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the gods see everywhere.
Página 263 - Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore, Nameless here for evermore.
Página 266 - thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Página 266 - Nevermore.' 'Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked, upstarting 'Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Página 269 - And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor...
Página 269 - Pr'ythee, lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny : 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Página 267 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Página 267 - There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have ; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.