Standard Supplementary Readers, Book 4William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart American Book Company, 1880 - Readers |
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... vegetable physiology , and that the zoological readings are arranged with due reference to the hierarchy of animal forms ; commencing , as they do , with the own . highest family of brute mammals , the simiadæ , and PREFACE .
... vegetable physiology , and that the zoological readings are arranged with due reference to the hierarchy of animal forms ; commencing , as they do , with the own . highest family of brute mammals , the simiadæ , and PREFACE .
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... ANIMALS 33. THE " WILD MEN " HANNO SAW 34. A YOUNG ORANG - OUTANG 35. MY BABOON 36. MY MONKEYS . 37. THE MONKEY . 38. THE VAMPIRE · Whittier Frankenstein Gosse Dr. Clark Le Vaillant . Frank Buckland Mary Howitt Wood 88 90 94 98 101 105 ...
... ANIMALS 33. THE " WILD MEN " HANNO SAW 34. A YOUNG ORANG - OUTANG 35. MY BABOON 36. MY MONKEYS . 37. THE MONKEY . 38. THE VAMPIRE · Whittier Frankenstein Gosse Dr. Clark Le Vaillant . Frank Buckland Mary Howitt Wood 88 90 94 98 101 105 ...
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... ANIMAL 69. THE STRUCTURE OF BIRDS 70. COLORS OF BIRDS 71. ALEXANDER WILSON , THE LOVER OF BIRDS 72. THE CONDOR 73. THE BALD EAGLE Patterson Frankenstein Ord . Gosse and Darwin Alexander Wilson PART II . Charles Reade 218 Sir Samuel ...
... ANIMAL 69. THE STRUCTURE OF BIRDS 70. COLORS OF BIRDS 71. ALEXANDER WILSON , THE LOVER OF BIRDS 72. THE CONDOR 73. THE BALD EAGLE Patterson Frankenstein Ord . Gosse and Darwin Alexander Wilson PART II . Charles Reade 218 Sir Samuel ...
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... animal the female of which suckles its young . plant that winds round another body for support . ter'min - al , relating to the extremity . 1. ALTHOUGH the flower and its fruit tell us what the plant is , and leaves do not with any ...
... animal the female of which suckles its young . plant that winds round another body for support . ter'min - al , relating to the extremity . 1. ALTHOUGH the flower and its fruit tell us what the plant is , and leaves do not with any ...
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... animals . In its sleep the leaf seems to approach the age of infancy . It folds itself up , nearly as it lay folded ... animal rolls itself up , lying as if it lay in its mother's bosom . 7. What is the cause of the sleep of plants ? It ...
... animals . In its sleep the leaf seems to approach the age of infancy . It folds itself up , nearly as it lay folded ... animal rolls itself up , lying as if it lay in its mother's bosom . 7. What is the cause of the sleep of plants ? It ...
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Page 283 - There is a Power whose care teaches thy way along that pathless coast, the desert and illimitable air — lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, at that far height, the cold thin atmosphere, yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, though the dark night is near.
Page 315 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 272 - What thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Page 281 - Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring! Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery; The same whom in my school-boy days I listened to; that Cry Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, and tree, and sky. To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet; Can lie upon the plain And listen, till I do beget That golden time again.
Page 16 - IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array.
Page 315 - Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: — Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 79 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 282 - midst falling dew, 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 315 - Build thee more stately mansions, 0 my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past ! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea ! " OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, The Chambered Nautilus.
Page 129 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire?