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PRAC LANGUAGE BK Edward a. (Edward Archibald) 184 Allen,William John 1851- Hawkins No preview available - 2016 |
PRAC LANGUAGE BK Edward a. (Edward Archibald) 184 Allen,William John 1851- Hawkins No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
abbreviations adverb clauses Ali Baba ALICE CARY Androclus Arachne asters Athena Baba beautiful became an Artist begin with capital Benjamin West birds capital letter Ceres chariot child cloud copy five sentences copy the sentences DICTATION EXERCISE earth exclamation expressions five original sentences flowers frost golden goldenrod group of words hair horses leaves lion little girls little tree lived Loki looked loved MEMORY SELECTION month morning mother names of five nest night ORAL EXERCISE ORAL LESSON palace Phaeton phrases PICTURE LESSON plants plural Pluto POEM STUDY predicate pronoun proper nouns PROSE STUDY Proserpina queen quotation refer Rip Van Winkle rose sang SECTION seen sentence that tells sentences containing sentences that contain Silkworm sing snow song stanza story summer things Thor thou Ulysses weave WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT wind winter Wonderful Weaver Write five original Write five sentences WRITTEN COMPOSITION Write WRITTEN EXERCISE Copy WRITTEN EXERCISE Write
Popular passages
Page 132 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Page 124 - You run about, my little maid, Your limbs they are alive ; If two are in the churchyard laid, Then ye are only five.' ' Their graves are green, they may be seen,' The little maid replied, ' Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, And they are side by side.
Page 125 - And when the ground was white with snow, And I could run and slide, My brother John was forced to go, And he lies by her side." "How many are you, then," said I, "If they two are in heaven?
Page 154 - ... Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced ; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee : A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed — and gazed — but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought...
Page 132 - While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 86 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me : — ' Pipe a song about a lamb : ' So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again : ' So I piped ; he wept to hear.
Page 153 - I WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils, Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Page 62 - I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
Page 116 - And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 140 - Rip's heart died away at hearing of these sad changes in his home and friends, and finding himself thus alone in the world. Every answer puzzled him too, by treating of such enormous lapses of time, and of matters which he could not understand: war — Congress — Stony Point ; — he had no courage to ask after any more friends, but cried out in despair, " Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle ? " " Oh, Rip Van Winkle ! " exclaimed two or three. "Oh, to be sure! that's Rip Van Winkle yonder, leaning...