Reading-literature, Book 8Row, Peterson, 1919 |
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Page 17
... wall of rain - Shuts off the landscape mile by mile ; For a breath's space I see the blue wood again , And ere the next heart - beat , the wind - hurled pile , That seemed but now a league aloof , Bursts crackling o'er the sun - parched ...
... wall of rain - Shuts off the landscape mile by mile ; For a breath's space I see the blue wood again , And ere the next heart - beat , the wind - hurled pile , That seemed but now a league aloof , Bursts crackling o'er the sun - parched ...
Page 77
... walls , and taken but the form . Know ye not these ? " and Gareth lookt and read— In letters like to those the vexillary Hath left crag - carven o'er the streaming Gelt- " PHOSPHORUS " then " MERIDIES " - " HESPERUS " . " Nox " " MORS ...
... walls , and taken but the form . Know ye not these ? " and Gareth lookt and read— In letters like to those the vexillary Hath left crag - carven o'er the streaming Gelt- " PHOSPHORUS " then " MERIDIES " - " HESPERUS " . " Nox " " MORS ...
Page 83
... walls , a light twinkled ; anon Came lights and lights , and once again he blew ; Whereon were hollow tramplings up and down And muffled voices heard , and shadows past ; Till high above him , circled with her maids , 1335 The Lady ...
... walls , a light twinkled ; anon Came lights and lights , and once again he blew ; Whereon were hollow tramplings up and down And muffled voices heard , and shadows past ; Till high above him , circled with her maids , 1335 The Lady ...
Page 150
... walls , slopes , and hedges like the clothyard shafts of Senlac and Crecy . The gable - end of the cottage was stained- with wet , and the eavesdroppings flapped against the wall . Yet never was commiseration for the shepherd more ...
... walls , slopes , and hedges like the clothyard shafts of Senlac and Crecy . The gable - end of the cottage was stained- with wet , and the eavesdroppings flapped against the wall . Yet never was commiseration for the shepherd more ...
Page 151
... wall ; girls shy and not shy filled the window - bench ; four men , including Charley Jake , the hedge - carpenter , Elijah New , the parish - clerk , and John Pitcher , a neighbor - dairyman , the shepherd's father - in- law , lolled ...
... wall ; girls shy and not shy filled the window - bench ; four men , including Charley Jake , the hedge - carpenter , Elijah New , the parish - clerk , and John Pitcher , a neighbor - dairyman , the shepherd's father - in- law , lolled ...
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Page 23 - Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which, but an hour ago, Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness. And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 18 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 285 - Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. What though on namely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that? Gi'e fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a
Page 283 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track; And one eye's black intelligence,— ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance! And the thick heavy spume-flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned; and cried Joris "Stay spur! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her, We'll remember at Aix...
Page 248 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Page 250 - If you have tears prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii : Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Page 19 - Oh, from out the sounding cells, " What a gush of euphony voluminously wells ! How it swells ! How it dwells On the Future! how it tells Of the rapture that impels " To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells...
Page 19 - In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire, In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire, Leaping higher, higher, higher, With a desperate desire, And a resolute endeavor Now— now to sit, or never, By the side of the pale-faced moon.
Page 22 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
Page 283 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ;