Stepping Stones to Literature, Boek 8Silver, Burdett, 1898 - 317 pagina's |
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Pagina 22
... fire on a head- land , or lofty cape , called Turnberry , on the coast of Ayr- shire , opposite to the island of Arran . The appearance of a fire on this place was to be a signal for Bruce to put to sea with such men as he had , who ...
... fire on a head- land , or lofty cape , called Turnberry , on the coast of Ayr- shire , opposite to the island of Arran . The appearance of a fire on this place was to be a signal for Bruce to put to sea with such men as he had , who ...
Pagina 31
... fires kindled , one for himself and his foster brother at one end of the house , the other at the other end for their three companions . The men did as he desired . They broiled . a quarter of mutton for themselves , and gave another to ...
... fires kindled , one for himself and his foster brother at one end of the house , the other at the other end for their three companions . The men did as he desired . They broiled . a quarter of mutton for themselves , and gave another to ...
Pagina 39
... fire , in full career , Rushed on the ponderous cuirassier , The lancer crouched his ruthless spear , And , hurrying as to havoc near , The cohorts ' eagles flew . In one dark torrent , broad and strong , The advancing onset rolled ...
... fire , in full career , Rushed on the ponderous cuirassier , The lancer crouched his ruthless spear , And , hurrying as to havoc near , The cohorts ' eagles flew . In one dark torrent , broad and strong , The advancing onset rolled ...
Pagina 40
... fire at once ! Each musketeer's revolving knell As fast , as regularly fell , As when they practice to display Their discipline on festal day . Then down went helm and lance , Down were the eagle - banners sent , Down reeling steeds and ...
... fire at once ! Each musketeer's revolving knell As fast , as regularly fell , As when they practice to display Their discipline on festal day . Then down went helm and lance , Down were the eagle - banners sent , Down reeling steeds and ...
Pagina 51
... fire an evening group to draw , And tell of all I felt and all I saw : And , as an hare , whom hounds and horns pursue , Pants to the place from which at first he flew , I still had hopes , my long vexations past , Here to return- and ...
... fire an evening group to draw , And tell of all I felt and all I saw : And , as an hare , whom hounds and horns pursue , Pants to the place from which at first he flew , I still had hopes , my long vexations past , Here to return- and ...
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Stepping Stones to Literature: A reader for higher grades Sarah Louise Arnold,Charles Benajah Gilbert Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2018 |
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Abbot Achaians Alexandros answer Ariel arms Balclutha battle behold Belshazzar Bingen brother Bruce Buckingham burning fiery furnace called Campeius cardinal Carthon Clessámmor cloud Comyn Cromwell dark daughter dear death duke enemy England English eyes father fear fell Fingal friends Gentleman give grace Guenever hand hath head hear heard heart heaven honor horse John of Lorn JOHN RUSKIN JOSEPH ADDISON King Arthur King Henry king's lady land live looked Lord Menelaos mighty Miranda Moina Nebuchadnezzar never night noble Norfolk Pickwick Picts pleasure poem poor pray Priam princes Prospero Queen Katherine Reader Robert Robert the Bruce round Scotland Scots ship Sir Bedivere Sir Lucan Sir Modred soul spake speak spear spider STEPPING STONES STONES TO LITERATURE stood Suffolk Surrey sword tell thee thing Thomas Bulfinch thought Trojans unto voice wild Winkle Wolsey words
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Pagina 187 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Pagina 184 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Pagina 113 - He heard the deep behind him, and a cry Before. His own thought drove him like a goad. Dry clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels — And on a sudden, lo ! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon.
Pagina 188 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
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Pagina 109 - Came on the shining levels of the lake. There drew he forth the brand Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt : For all the haft twinkled with diamond sparks, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery.
Pagina 82 - Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the . joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Pagina 196 - In memory of the man but for whom had gone to wrack All that France saved from the fight whence England bore the bell. Go to Paris : rank on rank Search the heroes flung pell-mell On the Louvre, face and flank ! You shall look long enough ere you come to Herve
Pagina 190 - ON the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred ninety-two, Did the English fight the French, — woe to France ! And, the thirty-first of May, helter-skelter through the blue, Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue, Came crowding ship on ship to St. Malo on the Ranee, With the English fleet in view.