Tarbell's Lessons in Language, Book 1

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Page 58 - THE dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink ; I heard a voice ; it said, " Drink, pretty creature, drink ! " And, looking o'er the hedge, before me I espied A snow-white mountain lamb with a maiden at its side.
Page 58 - What ails thee, young one? what? Why pull so at thy cord ? Is it not well with thee? — well both for bed and board? Thy plot of grass is soft, and green as grass can be ; Rest, little young one, rest ; what is't that aileth thee ? "What is it thou wouldst seek?
Page 83 - IT wAS a summer evening; Old Kaspar's work was done. And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun; And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine. She saw her brother Peterkin Roll something large and round. Which he beside the rivulet In playing there had found; He came to ask what he had found. That was so large and smooth and round. Old Kaspar took it from the boy, Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And...
Page 60 - The name of the person spoken to should be separated from the rest of the sentence by a comma or commas.
Page 24 - , WE are little airy creatures, All of different voice and features ; One of us in glass is set, One of us you'll find in jet. T'other you may see in tin, And the fourth a box within. If the fifth you should pursue, It can never fly from you.
Page 151 - But. small as he is, he knows he may want In the bleak winter weather, when food is scant: So he finds a hole in an old tree's core. And there makes his nest and lays up his store; Then when cold winter comes and the trees are bare.
Page 98 - This rule includes words ending in quy, m which u, being pronounced like w, is strictly a consonant : aa, colloquy, colloquies. The plural of proper nouns ending in y preceded by a consonant, is formed by changing y into ies, according to the rule: as, "The three Maries.
Page 58 - The dew was falling fast, the— stars began to blink, I heard a voice; it said— drink, pretty creature, drink; And, looking o'er the hedge, be— fore me I espied A snow-white mountain lamb, with a— maiden at its side. No other sheep were near, the lamb was all alone, And by a slender cord was— tether'd to a stone.
Page 25 - Some short words such as baby and echo are words of two syllables, and so may be divided ba-by, ech-o, but it is generally considered better not to divide very short words. When a word is divided at the end of a line, a hyphen should be used to show that the word is unfinished. Words should be divided only between syllables. Words of one syllable should not be divided.

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