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... listened attentively for a few moments . Then he was sure he heard a noise , like somebody singing , in a very sweet but low voice , and it seemed as if the sound came from outside the cave . Cecil got up very quietly , and went to the ...
... listened attentively for a few moments . Then he was sure he heard a noise , like somebody singing , in a very sweet but low voice , and it seemed as if the sound came from outside the cave . Cecil got up very quietly , and went to the ...
الصفحة 18
... listened attentively to every word ; and as soon as her sister had ceased , she again began : - ' Well thou knowest , sister dear , " Rock and sea our power confess ; If by these the way were clear , Mortal sorrow to redress ; But ...
... listened attentively to every word ; and as soon as her sister had ceased , she again began : - ' Well thou knowest , sister dear , " Rock and sea our power confess ; If by these the way were clear , Mortal sorrow to redress ; But ...
الصفحة 19
... listened with the deepest attention to the singing of the mermaids , and with feelings divided between joy at finding friends so near , and regret at the limit to their power , which appeared likely to prevent them from setting him free ...
... listened with the deepest attention to the singing of the mermaids , and with feelings divided between joy at finding friends so near , and regret at the limit to their power , which appeared likely to prevent them from setting him free ...
الصفحة 25
... listened eagerly for the mermaid's song . For a long time he heard nothing , and then he heard a voice singing , the tones of which were so unlike the mermaid's that he couldn't under- stand it at all . Presently , however , he made out ...
... listened eagerly for the mermaid's song . For a long time he heard nothing , and then he heard a voice singing , the tones of which were so unlike the mermaid's that he couldn't under- stand it at all . Presently , however , he made out ...
الصفحة 29
... listened with great interest to this convers- ation , and wondered what it could mean and who was coming to help him . He had not to wait long , how- ever , for after a very short time he fancied he heard the dip of oars in the water ...
... listened with great interest to this convers- ation , and wondered what it could mean and who was coming to help him . He had not to wait long , how- ever , for after a very short time he fancied he heard the dip of oars in the water ...
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مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 298 - THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
الصفحة 299 - THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of
الصفحة 295 - Morte d'Arthur.— SIR THOMAS MALORY'S BOOK OF KING ARTHUR AND OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. The original Edition of CAXTON, revised for Modern Use. With an Introduction by Sir EDWARD STRACHEY, Bart. pp. xxxvii., 509. "It is with perfect confidence that we recommend this edition of the old romance to every class of readers.
الصفحة 307 - The editor has aimed to produce a book "which the emigrant, finding room for little not absolutely necessary, might yet find room for in his trunk, and the traveller in his knapsack, and that on some narrow shelves where there are few books this might be one.
الصفحة 299 - ... Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings. Selected and arranged by MARK LEMON. " The fullest and best jest book that has yet appeared." — SATURDAY REVIEW. BACON'S ESSAYS AND COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL. With Notes and Glossarial Index. By W.
الصفحة 307 - Household Book," by this name implying that it is a book for all — that there is nothing in it to prevent it from being confidently placid in the hands of every member of the household.
الصفحة 298 - From the higher mind of cultivated, all-questioning, but still conservative England, in this our puzzled generation, we do not .know of any utterance in literature so characteristic as the poems of Arthur Hugh dough.
الصفحة 294 - Wilson. — A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. By his SISTER. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.
الصفحة 298 - MACMILLAN'S GOLDEN TREASURY SERIES. UNIFORMLY printed in i8mo., with Vignette Titles by Sir NOEL PATON, T. WOOLNER, W. HOLMAN HUNT, JE MILLAIS, ARTHUR HUGHES, &c. Engraved on Steel by JEENS. Bound in extra cloth, 45.
الصفحة 296 - Also sold separately at 6s. each. Volume I. contains Narrative and Elegiac Poems; Volume II. Dramatic and Lyric Poems. The two volumes comprehend the First and Second Series of the Poems, and the New Poems. NEW POEMS. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6s. 6a. In this volume will be found " Empedocles on Etna ;"" Thyrsis " (written in commemoration of the late Professor Clough) ; " Epilogue to Lessing's, Laocoon ;" "Heine's Grave;"