Children's Books and Reading

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M. Kennerley, 1907 - 272 Seiten
 

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Seite 66 - Life! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; Tis hard to part when friends are dear; Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not good-night, but in some brighter clime, Bid me good-morning.
Seite 16 - I give to good fathers and mothers, in trust for their children, all good little words of praise and encouragement, and all quaint pet names and endearments, and I charge said parents to use them justly and generously, as the needs of their children may require.
Seite 99 - I have no name: I am but two days old." What shall I call thee ? "I happy am, Joy is my name.
Seite 108 - Our little poems are . . . humble, but they have no name. You must read them, remembering they were task-work; and perhaps you will admire the number of subjects, all of children, picked out by an old bachelor and an old maid. Many parents would not have found so many.
Seite 101 - to be an introduction to the reading of Telemachus; it is done out of the 'Odyssey,' not from the Greek. I would not mislead you; nor yet from Pope's 'Odyssey,' but from an older translation of one Chapman. The 'Shakespeare Tales
Seite 69 - in the shape of knowledge, and his empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his own powers, when he has learnt that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better than a horse, and such like; instead of that beautiful interest in wild tales which made the child a man while all the time he suspected himself to be no bigger than a child.
Seite 101 - I taking snuff and he groaning all the while, and saying he can make nothing of it, which he always says till he has finished, and then he finds out he has made something of it. . . .
Seite 104 - objection but what you may bring to numberless passages besides, such as of Scylla snatching up the six men, etc.,—that is to say, they are lively images of shocking things. If you want a book which is not occasionally to shock, you should not have thought of a tale which
Seite 101 - My Sister's part in the Leicester School (about twothirds) was purely her own; as it was (to the same quantity) in the Shakespeare Tales which bear my name. I wrote only the Witch Aunt, the First Going to Church, and the final story about a little Indian Girl in a Ship.
Seite 22 - Youth's Behaviour^' ("or, Decency in Conversation Amongst Men, Composed in French by Grave Persons, for the use and benefit of their youth, now newly turned into English, by Francis Hawkins, nephew to Sir Thomas Hawkins. The tenth impression."),

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