Literature Dramatized for Classroom UseHarcourt, Brace, 1926 - 216 pages |
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ain't ALICE art thou ARTHUR ATHELSTANE BELLEFONTAINE BERENGARIA BETH BLACK KNIGHT BOB CRATCHIT BOIS GUILBERT BRACY castle CEDRIC chair Christmas CURTAIN dear door DORMOUSE dost DOWLAS EDWARD Enter EPPIE EUMAEUS EURYMACHUS EVANGELINE Exit father FRED FRONT-DE-BŒUF GEORGE girls give GODFREY GURTH HAKIM hand hath HATTER head hear heart HERTFORD HUCK ISAAC IVANHOE KENNETH King LAMMETER LEBLANC LOCKSLEY look lord MACEY MARCH HARE Master Marner MELANTHIUS merry MORGAN NANCY NECTABANUS never noble ODYSSEUS pause play prince REBECCA RICHARD Rip Van Winkle rise RODERICK Rowena RUSTUM scene SCROOGE SILAS SILVER SIR ECTOR SIR KAY sits SNELL SOHRAB speak stand stone sword TELEMACHUS tell thee there's thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt TINY TIM turn VAUX village voice WAMBA YOUNG CRATCHITS
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Page 214 - And now the storm-blast came, and he Was tyrannous and strong : He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Page 215 - With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold : And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
Page 215 - Thorough the fog it came : As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through! And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners
Page 55 - Well! Never mind so long as you are come," said Mrs. Cratchit. "Sit ye down before the fire, my dear, and have a warm, Lord bless ye!" "No no! There's father coming," cried the two young Cratchits, who were everywhere at once.
Page 214 - The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, Merrily did we drop Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the light-house top.
Page 57 - the children! Christmas Day." "It should be Christmas Day, I am sure," said she, "on which one drinks the health of such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man as Mr. Scrooge. You know he is, Robert! Nobody knows it better than you do, poor fellow?" "My dear,
Page 15 - The name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice all awakened a train of recollections in his mind. "What is your name my good woman?
Page 50 - ... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below 'them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
Page 67 - To arms, and cry for vengeance upon thee. Fierce man, bethink thee, for an only son! What will that grief, what will that vengeance be! Oh, could I live, till I that grief had seen! Yet him I pity not so much, but her, My mother, who in Ader-baijan dwells With that old King, her father, who grows grey With age, and rules over the valiant Koords. Her most I pity, who no more will see Sohrab returning from the Tartar camp, With spoils and honour, when the war is done. But a dark rumour will be bruited...
Page 215 - Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!