John Heywood's Manchester readers. [With] Key, pt.1,2, كتاب 5 |
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animal appear arms army atmosphere battle bells bird blood boat body Branksome Hall British Burnham Thorpe Cæsar called Captain centre Collect the principal command context Deansgate death decimal deck distance Divide each word draw Duke Duke of Alençon earth enemy England English words equal Exercises in Word eyes fear feet fire force Form lists Fractions French Gibraltar give its meaning Greek substantives Greek verb hand Harfleur heart Henry honour Inflection John Heywood JULIUS CÆSAR king land length light lists of English look Lord Lord Amherst MANCHESTER READERS mark its proper meaning according ment Metric System miles mind mole moon motion night noun o'er observed oysters paragraph passed Passover pearls preceding lesson principal words proper accentuation rising rope round sail ship side substance surface thee thou tone troops vessels victory Vulgar Fractions whale yards
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الصفحة 168 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
الصفحة 67 - I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
الصفحة 68 - If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake ; 'tis true, this god did shake...
الصفحة 105 - 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 far away on the billow...
الصفحة 22 - WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Thronged around her magic cell...
الصفحة 97 - Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody...
الصفحة 140 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
الصفحة 139 - It must be by his death: and, for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crown'd: How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking.
الصفحة 94 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me of half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies; and what's his reason .' I am a jew : Hath not a jew eyes ? hath not a jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions...
الصفحة 173 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood. Robed in the sable garb of woe. With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.