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Lesson 128 — “Celestial City” from the Bible

Revelation

Lesson 127 — “Comfort Ye My People” from the Bible

Isaiah 40

Lesson 126 — “The Proverbs of Solomon” from the Bible

Proverbs 10

Lesson 125 — “Woe to Ariel” from the Bible

Isaiah 29…I didn’t even know the name Ariel was in the Bible. Pretty cool

Lesson 124 — “Morning” by Anonymous

An ode to the morning and how grateful nature is, while most people are so focused on work they forget to thank God

Lesson 123 — “The Journey of a Day: A Picture of Human Life” by Dr Johnson

Obidah tries to travel from one place to another, but starts to take the easier road and gets hopelessly lost after a while. He runs into a hermit who warns him against doing that in life

Lesson 122 — “Reflections in Westminister Abbey” by Addison

Addison loves to wander in the abbey when he’s in a serious mood, and read all the tombs and wonder at how life is so often reduced to two dates at the end

Lesson 121 — “Apostrophe to the Ocean” by Byron

Many empires have come and gone, many empires have built on land. But the ocean stands apart. Byron describes it as having “the image of eternity”

Lesson 120 — “Ladies’ Headdresses” from Spectator

Someone wrote to the Spectator talking about the fashion of headdresses over the years, and how they were too much before. Currently the fashion is to the writer’s preference, and he says nature has already ornamented women best

Lesson 119 — “A Dirge” by Croly

A funeral poem about death and all that, then turns our attention to the future and the new Earth

Lesson 118 — “The Vision of Mirza” by Addison

Mirza meets a shepherd who shows him a vision of human life like travelers on a bridge, falling through trapdoors of death and into the ocean of eternity. Some end up on islands of paradise

Lesson 117 — “William Tell” cont’d

The final scene where Tell shoots at his son and hides an extra arrow in his vest ready to kill Gesler if necessary

Lesson 116 — “William Tell” (cont’d)

I’m pretty sure this whole segment is one of the reasons why I originally decided to reread this reader. When I first read it back in junior high it just stuck in my head

Lesson 115 — "William Tell" by Knowles

A boy leads a lost man, Gesler, back to town. When he refuses to tell Gesler his father's name, Gesler gets angry at his fearless spirit and sends someone to track him so that the man can be found