The Franklin Fourth Reader: For the Use of Public and Private SchoolsTaintor Bros., 1878 - 240 pages |
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Al-lied arms beautiful Beechnut birds boat boys British called CARROLL catbird CHARLES DICKINSON child circumflex cold common quail court-martial cried crow dark dear delight door earth eyes father fearful feet fell fir-tree fire flowers Franconia GEORGE ground hand head hear heard heart horses inflection Jacob Abbott Jake JAMES John Cassin killed kite lady land That waited Larkin light little Meg live look Lulu Martin Meg's morning mother move care neighbor nest never night OSCAR Parker PHOEBE CARY poor rafts Richard Howitt river seemed sing six dolls sleep Snap soon sound sparrow spring stood stop story sweet tell Thee things thou thought TIMBOO took tree troops turned twine Uncle Ben Uncle John voice Watch wonderful wood words YOUNG FOLKS
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Page xxvii - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Page 122 - THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white.
Page 116 - Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow.
Page xxviii - And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
Page 65 - All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.
Page xxix - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 62 - With the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers that flow, With cities and gardens, and cliffs, and isles And people upon you for thousands of miles? "Ah, you are so great, and I am so small, I...
Page 215 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Page 62 - You friendly Earth, how far do you go, With the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers that flow, With cities and gardens, and cliffs and isles, And people upon you for thousands of miles?
Page 123 - I live for those who love me, For those who know me true ; For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit too ; For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.