The Little Speaker, and Juvenile Reader: Being a Collection of Pieces in Prose, Poetry, and Dialogue, Designed for Exercises in Speaking, and for Occasional Reading, in Primary SchoolsCollins & Brother, 1866 - 162 ページ |
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Alfred Alice ALMIRA AMERICAN SPEAKER beautiful brother Casabianca charm cheerful chick-a-de-de Cricket dear parents doth Edwin Eliza Ellen Emily Emma father feel flowers friends George Washington give glad go to school happy hard HARVARD COLLEGE hate hear heard heart heaven Helen hope hour idle improve Jack Frost-Jack Frost Jane John joys Julia Kate keep kind teacher kite laugh learn to lie lessons little bird little girls Lizzie look Lucy magic lamp Maria Mary mind moon morning naughty never night o'er Peter place for Frank play play cards pleasant Spring poor pray prettiest sight Samuel Sarah scholar schoolmates schoolroom shilling shining singing sister snowbird song speak stay at home sunny sure Susan sweet sweet and low tell things THOU GOD SEEST thought told tree Whip-poor-will whistle wicked wish young youthful
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27 ページ - You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in' public on the stage ; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow ; Tall oaks from little acorns grow...
53 ページ - And shouted but once more aloud, "My father! must I stay?" While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They...
61 ページ - DOWN in a green and shady bed, A modest violet grew, Its stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view.
52 ページ - Speak, father," once again he cried, "If I may yet be gone!" And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on.
39 ページ - The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll And spread the truth from pole to pole.
16 ページ - No, no, no; said he cut down his apple-tree." " George's apple-tree ? " "No, no; his father's." "Oh!" "He said " "His father said?" "No, no, no; George said, 'Father, I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.
34 ページ - Mary had a little lamb ; Its fleece was white as snow; And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go.
53 ページ - With fragments strewed the sea ! With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, That well had borne their part — But the noblest thing that perished there, Was that young faithful heart.
40 ページ - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball ; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
31 ページ - At last by starvation and famine made bold, All dripping with wet and all trembling with cold, Away he set off to a miserly ant, To see if, to keep him alive, he would grant Him shelter from rain...