McGuffey's new high school reader: for advanced classes. Embracing about two hundred classic exercises by McGuffey William Holmes 1800-1873

Author:McGuffey, William Holmes, 1800-1873
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Readers (Secondary)
Publisher: Cincinnati, New York, Van Antwerp, Bragg & co
Published: 1885-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

And then \vc thought on vengeance, and all along our van, "Remember Saint Bartholomew," Avas pass'd from man to man; But out spake gentle Henry then, " No Frenchman is my foe ; Down, down with every foreigner; but let your brethren g(x'' Oh ! was there ever such a knight, iu friendship or in wai-. As our sovereign lord, King Henry, the soldier of Navarre !

VI.

Ho! maidens of Vienna! Ho! matrons of Lucerne !

Weep, weep, and rend your hair for those who never shall re^turn.

Ho! Philip, send, for charity, thy Mexican pistoles,

That Antwerp monks may sing a mass for thy poor spearmen's

souls! Ho! gallant nobles of the league, look that your arms be bright! Ho! burghers of Saint Genevieve, keep Avatch and ward to-night! For our God hath crush'd the tyrant, our God hath rais'd the slave, And mock'd the counsel of the wise and the valor of the brave. Then glory to His holy name, from whom all glories are; And honor to our sovereign lord, King Henry of Navarre.

LXXXVIL—POMPEII.

2. Impluvium ; a room with an opening above, through which water fell into the cistern.

3. Pkristyle; a room encompassed with columns.

4. Ar.\be»que; an Arabian painting.

1. Once there stood a town in Italy, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, which was to Eome what Brighton or Hastings is to London, a very fashionable watering-place, at which Roman gentlemen and members of the senate built villas, to which they were in the habit of retiring from the fatigues of business or the broils of polities. The outsides of all the houses were adorned with frescoes, and every shop glittered with all the colors of the rainbow. At the end of each street there was a charming fountain, and any one who sat down beside it to cool himself, had a delightful view of the Mediterranean, then as beautiful, as blue, and sunny, as it is now. On a fine day, crowds might be seen

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