The Illustrated London Reading BookPrinted and published at the office of The Illustrated London News, 1851 - 264 sider |
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Side 6
... feet , which they employ like hands , holding the food firmly with the claws of one , while they support themselves on the other . From the hooked shape of their bills , they find it more convenient to turn their food in an outward ...
... feet , which they employ like hands , holding the food firmly with the claws of one , while they support themselves on the other . From the hooked shape of their bills , they find it more convenient to turn their food in an outward ...
Side 9
... priests being his joint treasurers . On the day of the festival , three cars , between fifty and sixty feet in height , are brought to the gate of the XX THE RATTLESNAKE . x HIS terrible reptile is found. ILLUSTRATED LONDON READING BOOK .
... priests being his joint treasurers . On the day of the festival , three cars , between fifty and sixty feet in height , are brought to the gate of the XX THE RATTLESNAKE . x HIS terrible reptile is found. ILLUSTRATED LONDON READING BOOK .
Side 15
... feet off the ground — could at the utmost raise one foot . Why , you are no man , " said the Utgard people ; " there is an old woman that will wrestle you . Thor , heartily ashamed , seized this haggard old woman , but could not throw ...
... feet off the ground — could at the utmost raise one foot . Why , you are no man , " said the Utgard people ; " there is an old woman that will wrestle you . Thor , heartily ashamed , seized this haggard old woman , but could not throw ...
Side 20
... feet beneath the snow , the delicacy of smell with which they can trace him offers a chance of escape . They scratch away the snow with their feet ; they set up a continued hoarse and solemn bark , which brings the monks and labourers ...
... feet beneath the snow , the delicacy of smell with which they can trace him offers a chance of escape . They scratch away the snow with their feet ; they set up a continued hoarse and solemn bark , which brings the monks and labourers ...
Side 27
... feet ; His house is a hole in the clay , And the bright morning dew is his meat . But if you more closely behold This insect you think is so mean , You will find him all spangled with gold , And shining with crimson and green . Tho ...
... feet ; His house is a hole in the clay , And the bright morning dew is his meat . But if you more closely behold This insect you think is so mean , You will find him all spangled with gold , And shining with crimson and green . Tho ...
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ancient animal appearance ask'd battle beautiful bird body called cheerfulness colour consists DALMATIAN DOG danger dark death delight earth enemies England feet flowers GAMBIER ISLANDERS Gelert gentle give ground hand happy head heart height honour hour ILLUSTRATED LONDON inhabitants island Jalapa JOHN HAMPDEN Joppa kind King labour land length light live look Lord manner miles mind mountain native nature nest never night noble o'er observation pain pass passions Patmos peace person pleasure POOL OF SILOAM Prince Pyramid Lake resembling rise river rock sails Samian wine scene ship side sleep sloth soul species Staffa stone STONY CROSS STRATA FLORIDA ABBEY sweet Swineshead tapir taste thee things Thor thou thought tion towers trees tube vessel wall whole wind wood young
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Side 145 - Now strike the golden lyre again : A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
Side 205 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Side 186 - ... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Side 186 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Side 190 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Side 172 - By the festal cities' blaze, Whilst the wine-cup shines in light ; And yet amidst that joy and uproar Let us think of them that sleep, Full many a fathom deep, By thy wild and stormy steep, Elsinore...
Side 109 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet ; Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
Side 228 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I, observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That. I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Side 186 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy...
Side 203 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...