The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking, Designed to Fill the Same Place in the Schools of the United States, that is Held in Those of Great Britain by the Compilations of Murray, Scott, Enfield, Mylius, Thompson, Ewing, and OthersRichardson, Lord, and Holbrook, and Hilliard, Gray, LIttle, and Wilkins, 1827 - 276 páginas |
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... fire glared on the wise and daring . Now they dipped their noble limbs in your sedgy lakes , and now they paddled the light canoe * along your rocky shores . Here they warred ; the echoing whoop , the bloody grapple , the defying death ...
... fire glared on the wise and daring . Now they dipped their noble limbs in your sedgy lakes , and now they paddled the light canoe * along your rocky shores . Here they warred ; the echoing whoop , the bloody grapple , the defying death ...
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... fire has long since gone out on the shore , and their war - cry is fast dying to the untrod- den west . Slowly and sadly they climb the distant moun- tains , and read their doom in the setting sun . They are shrinking before the mighty ...
... fire has long since gone out on the shore , and their war - cry is fast dying to the untrod- den west . Slowly and sadly they climb the distant moun- tains , and read their doom in the setting sun . They are shrinking before the mighty ...
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... fire I saw a group of youthful forms surrounding , The room with harmless pleasantry resounding ; And , in the midst , I marked the smiling sire . The heavens were clouded - and I heard the tone Of a slow - moving bell : the white ...
... fire I saw a group of youthful forms surrounding , The room with harmless pleasantry resounding ; And , in the midst , I marked the smiling sire . The heavens were clouded - and I heard the tone Of a slow - moving bell : the white ...
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... fire - flies dance through the myrtle boughs ? " - “ Not there , not there , my child ! ” - " Is it where the feathery palm - trees rise , And the date grows ripe under sunny skies ? - Or midst the green islands of glittering seas ...
... fire - flies dance through the myrtle boughs ? " - “ Not there , not there , my child ! ” - " Is it where the feathery palm - trees rise , And the date grows ripe under sunny skies ? - Or midst the green islands of glittering seas ...
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... fire to warm , or friend to console him , -lay this helpless mortal , who had been so long the terror and won- der of the village . His dog was crouching on the scanty coverlet , and shivering with cold . My grandfather stepped softly ...
... fire to warm , or friend to console him , -lay this helpless mortal , who had been so long the terror and won- der of the village . His dog was crouching on the scanty coverlet , and shivering with cold . My grandfather stepped softly ...
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