Longman's Junior School Composition

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Longmans, Green and Company, 1904 - 100 Seiten
 

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Seite 26 - Go, wondrous creature! mount where Science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the sun; Go, soar with Plato to th...
Seite 24 - Why, Dr. Johnson, this is not so easy as you seem to think ; for if you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like WHALES.
Seite 48 - When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry
Seite 50 - And shouted but once more aloud, "My father! must I stay?" While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They...
Seite 12 - Little drops of water, Little grains of sand Make the mighty ocean, And the pleasant land.
Seite 50 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form.
Seite 55 - I'm the chief of Ulva's Isle, And this Lord Ullin's daughter. "And fast before her father's men Three days we've fled together, For should he find us in the glen, My blood would stain the heather. "His horsemen hard behind us ride; Should they...
Seite 23 - And taught the dreadful battle where to rage. — So when an Angel by Divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land — Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past — Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Seite 59 - He laid him down, and closed his eyes ; But soon a scream made him arise. He started, and saw two eyes of flame On his pillow, from whence the screaming came.
Seite 52 - O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home Across the sands of Dee!

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