Heath Readers: Primer [-sixth] Reader, Book 6D.C. Heath & Company, 1903 - Readers |
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Abbey ALFRED TENNYSON ancient Mariner Annabel Lee Antony arms Bagdemagus battle beauty Brutus Cæsar called Cassius cloud cried dead death deep earth enemy England English Excalibur eyes fair fear Fourth Citizen friends give gold grave Guenever hand hath hear heard heart heaven holy honor King Arthur knights ladies land Lars Porsena live look lord loud Lowell manners mast Merlin mind moon nature never noble o'er poet Queen rode Rome round sail Second Citizen Shakespeare ship side Siege Siege Perilous Sir Bedivere Sir Ector Sir Galahad Sir Kay Sir Launcelot Sir Lucan Sir Patrick Spens soon soul spake speak stone stood sweet sword tell thee things Third Citizen thou thought tomb took town Ulysses unto vessel voice Webster Westminster Abbey WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE wind words wound
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Page 338 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 264 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Page 147 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly , both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...
Page 265 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : And thus far hear me, Cromwell; 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...
Page 200 - Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Page 211 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw ; And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way.
Page 213 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Page 294 - Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up To such a sudden flood of mutiny. They that have done this deed are honourable, What private griefs they have, alas ! I know not, That made them do it; they are wise and honourable, And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you.
Page 343 - twas, that God Himself Scarce seemed there to be. "O sweeter than the marriage-feast, 'Tis sweeter far to me. To walk togcthei to the kirk With a goodly company! — "To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray. While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends. And youths and maidens gay...
Page 326 - The Sun now rose upon the right: Out of the sea came he, Still hid in mist, and on the left Went down into the sea. " And the good south wind still blew behind, But no sweet bird did follow, Nor any day for food or play Came to the mariners