The beginners' drill-book of English grammarRivingtons, 1878 - 113 pages |
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Page 72
... turns grey . My keepers grew compassionate . Children tear books . Monmouth turned coward . Winter is dreary ... turn brown . Caterpillars become moths . Rumour proved false . Ice looks clear . Hannibal crossed rivers . Shepherds ...
... turns grey . My keepers grew compassionate . Children tear books . Monmouth turned coward . Winter is dreary ... turn brown . Caterpillars become moths . Rumour proved false . Ice looks clear . Hannibal crossed rivers . Shepherds ...
Page 74
... turn deserves cotton . Cotton sword . days in a grows in Africa . waves often come off . Grocers sell pounds Rifles The firing was Na- cotton is cheaper than is cheaper than cotton fixed near the muzzle are used in war . heard all day ...
... turn deserves cotton . Cotton sword . days in a grows in Africa . waves often come off . Grocers sell pounds Rifles The firing was Na- cotton is cheaper than is cheaper than cotton fixed near the muzzle are used in war . heard all day ...
Page 93
... turn degenerate , all depraved , Justice and temperance , truth and faith forgot . Thus done the tales , to bed they creep . Next Camus , reverend sire , went footing slow , His mantle hairy , and his bonnet sedge . Life's little drama ...
... turn degenerate , all depraved , Justice and temperance , truth and faith forgot . Thus done the tales , to bed they creep . Next Camus , reverend sire , went footing slow , His mantle hairy , and his bonnet sedge . Life's little drama ...
Page 95
... turn gray . The man went stark mad . It turned - out quite false . The last of all the bards was he . The harp he loved ne'er spake again . Forthwith the cited dead of all past ages to the general doom shall hasten . The harp was ...
... turn gray . The man went stark mad . It turned - out quite false . The last of all the bards was he . The harp he loved ne'er spake again . Forthwith the cited dead of all past ages to the general doom shall hasten . The harp was ...
Page 97
... turn white . Pleasures are like poppies spread . The boy remains a dunce . Nor want nor cold his course delay . The sea grows stormy . The farmer grows turnips . Poppies grow in corn - fields . Forty winters shall besiege thy brow , and ...
... turn white . Pleasures are like poppies spread . The boy remains a dunce . Nor want nor cold his course delay . The sea grows stormy . The farmer grows turnips . Poppies grow in corn - fields . Forty winters shall besiege thy brow , and ...
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Page 112 - Who steals my purse, steals trash; . . . But he that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Page 108 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Page 112 - Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. For the bright firmament Shoots forth no flame So silent, but is eloquent In speaking the Creator's name. No unregarded star Contracts its light Into so small a character...
Page 109 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 111 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Page 104 - Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Page 76 - Then the little Hiawatha Learned of every bird its language, Learned their names and all their secrets, How they built their nests in summer, Where they hid themselves in winter, Talked with them whene'er he met them, Called them "Hiawatha's Chickens.
Page 112 - His praise due paid: for swinish Gluttony Ne'er looks to Heaven amidst his gorgeous feast ; But with besotted, base ingratitude, Crams, and blasphemes his Feeder.
Page 111 - It is the most transcendent privilege which any subject can enjoy or wish for, that he cannot be affected either in his property, his liberty, or his person, but by the unanimous consent of twelve of his neighbors and equals.
Page 88 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to...