Stepping Stones to Literature, Bücher 8Silver, Burdett, 1898 - 317 Seiten |
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... stand in correct position and draw in through their nostrils - not through their mouths - as deep and as full breaths as they are capable of taking . This exercise repeated several times will tend to produce good breath- ing during the ...
... stand in correct position and draw in through their nostrils - not through their mouths - as deep and as full breaths as they are capable of taking . This exercise repeated several times will tend to produce good breath- ing during the ...
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... standing , and it is curious to see how it runs as straight as an arrow over high hills and through great bogs and morasses . You see , therefore , that Britain was divided between three different nations , who were enemies to each ...
... standing , and it is curious to see how it runs as straight as an arrow over high hills and through great bogs and morasses . You see , therefore , that Britain was divided between three different nations , who were enemies to each ...
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... standing forward to claim it . Amongst these , the principal candidates ( supposing John Baliol , by his renunciation and captivity , to have lost all right to the kingdom ) were two powerful noblemen . The first was Robert Bruce , 1 ...
... standing forward to claim it . Amongst these , the principal candidates ( supposing John Baliol , by his renunciation and captivity , to have lost all right to the kingdom ) were two powerful noblemen . The first was Robert Bruce , 1 ...
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... stand at a dis- tance ; " for , " said the king , " if I overcome these traitors , thou shalt have enough of weapons ; but if I am slain by them , you may make your escape , and tell Douglas and my brother to revenge my death . " The ...
... stand at a dis- tance ; " for , " said the king , " if I overcome these traitors , thou shalt have enough of weapons ; but if I am slain by them , you may make your escape , and tell Douglas and my brother to revenge my death . " The ...
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... stand . 66 Traitors , " said he , " ye have sold my life for English gold , but you shall die if you come one foot nearer to me . " With that he bent the page's bow , and as the old conspirator continued to advance , he let the arrow ...
... stand . 66 Traitors , " said he , " ye have sold my life for English gold , but you shall die if you come one foot nearer to me . " With that he bent the page's bow , and as the old conspirator continued to advance , he let the arrow ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 68 - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 55 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place: The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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
Seite 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.