First Steps with American and British AuthorsAmerican Book Company, 1899 - 422 pages A systematic study of the texts of standard English authors is generally held to constitute an important part of the regular course in most schools of higher grade. This book aims to supply a judicious and methodical instroduction to the standard English texts. |
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... Poets , dramatists , humorists , satirists , masters of fiction , the great preachers , the character - writers , the maxim writers , the great political orators , they are all literature , in so far as they teach us to know men , and ...
... Poets , dramatists , humorists , satirists , masters of fiction , the great preachers , the character - writers , the maxim writers , the great political orators , they are all literature , in so far as they teach us to know men , and ...
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... poets and prose writers who have added to its treasures is long and splendid . To study English literature is to become acquainted with the writings of the great authors who have made it what it is . It is to get at the charac ...
... poets and prose writers who have added to its treasures is long and splendid . To study English literature is to become acquainted with the writings of the great authors who have made it what it is . It is to get at the charac ...
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... poets . The former trains the brain to judge of other plays or poems ; the latter only loads the memory with details that can at any time be found , when required , in books of reference . " -F . G. FLEAY . The following " Outline of ...
... poets . The former trains the brain to judge of other plays or poems ; the latter only loads the memory with details that can at any time be found , when required , in books of reference . " -F . G. FLEAY . The following " Outline of ...
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... poet speak of the lands written in the Doomsday Book ? What was this Doomsday Book ? Tell me all you know about the monks . What was this missal ? What is meant here by prayer ? paternoster ? In humble voice , - meaning of the phrase in ...
... poet speak of the lands written in the Doomsday Book ? What was this Doomsday Book ? Tell me all you know about the monks . What was this missal ? What is meant here by prayer ? paternoster ? In humble voice , - meaning of the phrase in ...
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... poet speak of the lands written in the Doomsday Book ? What was this Doomsday Book ? Tell me all you know about the monks . What was this missal ? What is meant here by prayer ? paternoster ? In humble voice , — meaning of the phrase in ...
... poet speak of the lands written in the Doomsday Book ? What was this Doomsday Book ? Tell me all you know about the monks . What was this missal ? What is meant here by prayer ? paternoster ? In humble voice , — meaning of the phrase in ...
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Page 154 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 276 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
Page 47 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered '"Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 282 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, ' Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?
Page 47 - I long wooed your daughter, my suit you denied; Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide; And now am I come with this lost love of mine To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine. There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar.
Page 157 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 292 - That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction ; not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of childhood...
Page 293 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Page 157 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Page 128 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.