English Reading Lessons: To Serve as an Introduction to the Models of English Literature, for the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools |
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... round the brink , claps her wings , calls back her imprudent brood , sometimes entreating with tenderness , sometimes clucking with authority : she walks hastily away , pauses , turns her head with anxiety , advances even into the water ...
... round the brink , claps her wings , calls back her imprudent brood , sometimes entreating with tenderness , sometimes clucking with authority : she walks hastily away , pauses , turns her head with anxiety , advances even into the water ...
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... round his neck , to which the fainting man may apply for support ; and another has a cloak to cover him . These wonderful exertions are often successful ; and even where they fail of restoring him who has perished , the dogs discover ...
... round his neck , to which the fainting man may apply for support ; and another has a cloak to cover him . These wonderful exertions are often successful ; and even where they fail of restoring him who has perished , the dogs discover ...
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... round its point , with a skin so hard and impervious , that it cannot be cut or pierced even with a sharp knife , with- out great pressure . The food on which the giraffe princi- pally subsists , in its natural state , is the foliage ...
... round its point , with a skin so hard and impervious , that it cannot be cut or pierced even with a sharp knife , with- out great pressure . The food on which the giraffe princi- pally subsists , in its natural state , is the foliage ...
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... round with its voluminous twistings , and , at every twist , the bones of the buffalo were heard to crack , almost as loud as the report of a cannon . It was in vain that the poor animal struggled hard and bellowed ; its enormous enemy ...
... round with its voluminous twistings , and , at every twist , the bones of the buffalo were heard to crack , almost as loud as the report of a cannon . It was in vain that the poor animal struggled hard and bellowed ; its enormous enemy ...
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... round the horizon , and perceived that there was a school ' of young bulls about three miles from us . We were four boats in all ; and the first mate desired my boat and another to go in chase of them , while he remained with the other ...
... round the horizon , and perceived that there was a school ' of young bulls about three miles from us . We were four boats in all ; and the first mate desired my boat and another to go in chase of them , while he remained with the other ...
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Page 123 - No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest. Yet still, even here, content can spread a charm, Redress the clime, and all its rage disarm. Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts tho...
Page 74 - The food often grows in one country, and the sauce in another. The fruits of Portugal are corrected by the products of Barbadoes ; the infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane.
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Page 188 - Quench'd in dark clouds of slumber lie The terror of his beak, and lightnings of his eye.
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Page 188 - Man's feeble race what ills await: Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate I The fond complaint, my song, disprove, And justify the laws of Jove.