Everyday Classics
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217714594
Paperback|9780217714594
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: They sailed. They sailed. Then spake the mate; This mad sea shows his teeth to-night. He curls his lip, he lies in wait, With lifted teeth, as if to bite Brave Admiral, say but one good word: 6 What shall we do when hope is gone? The words leapt like a leaping sword; Sail on sail on and on Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, And peered through darkness. Ah, that night 10 Of all dark nights And then a speck ? A light A light A light A light It grew, a starlit flag unfurled It grew to be Time's burst of dawn. He gained a world; he gave that world 15 Its grandest lesson: On sail on Joaquin Miller. HELPS TO STUDY 1. With what point in Columbus's great work does the poem begin? 2. Explain lines 3 and 4. 3. What troubles did the mate see ahead of them? 4. What is Columbus's answer to every fear and every difficulty? 5. What indications are there that the author of this poem had read Irving's story, which you have just read? 6. What is meant by gained a world 7. What other service does the poet say he rendered us? For Study with the Glossary: Azores, Gates of Hercules, ghastly, wan, blanched. THE INDIANS OF VIRGINIA Within sixty miles of Jamestown there are about five thousand people, but of able men fit for war there are scarce fifteen hundred. There is a far greater number of women and children than of men. To support so many to- 5 gether, they have yet no means, because they derive so small a benefit from their land, be it ever so fertile. Six or seven hundred have been the most that have been seen together. The people differ very much in stature. Some are very great, others very little; but generally tall and straight, of 10 a comely proportion, and of a brown color when they ar...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217714594 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217714595 |
| Weight | 0.96 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.66 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 294 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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