Swinton's First [-sixth] Reader, Book 6American book Company, 1885 |
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... Nature . 2. Literary Form in Poetry 3. Good - by , Proud World . 4. Concord Fight 5. The Problem • 6. Emerson at Home 7. On the Death of His Son . 348 • 348 351 352 355 358 360 366 368 371 • 371 376 384 392 392 397 402 408 409 410 414 ...
... Nature . 2. Literary Form in Poetry 3. Good - by , Proud World . 4. Concord Fight 5. The Problem • 6. Emerson at Home 7. On the Death of His Son . 348 • 348 351 352 355 358 360 366 368 371 • 371 376 384 392 392 397 402 408 409 410 414 ...
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... nature of the essay , or history , or oration , or romance , etc .; and of the poem , whether it is in rhyme or blank verse . Brief elementary oral instruction by the teacher will enable the class to enlarge the scope of inquiry under ...
... nature of the essay , or history , or oration , or romance , etc .; and of the poem , whether it is in rhyme or blank verse . Brief elementary oral instruction by the teacher will enable the class to enlarge the scope of inquiry under ...
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... natural love of reading , hap pily threw me into the company of poets , philosophers , and sages , to me , good angels ... Nature . They tempered my heart , purified my tastes , elevated my mind , and directed my aspirations . I was lost ...
... natural love of reading , hap pily threw me into the company of poets , philosophers , and sages , to me , good angels ... Nature . They tempered my heart , purified my tastes , elevated my mind , and directed my aspirations . I was lost ...
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... nature and genius . But all that is known is that she was the daughter of Robert Arden , who be- longed to an ancient Warwickshire family , and is men- tioned in the records of the times as a " gentleman of worship . " He was a land ...
... nature and genius . But all that is known is that she was the daughter of Robert Arden , who be- longed to an ancient Warwickshire family , and is men- tioned in the records of the times as a " gentleman of worship . " He was a land ...
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... nature . To the character and disposition of Shakespeare , to the felicity of his temper , and the charm of his man- ners , tradition bears the most uniform testimony ; and , indeed , had tradition been silent on the subject , his own ...
... nature . To the character and disposition of Shakespeare , to the felicity of his temper , and the charm of his man- ners , tradition bears the most uniform testimony ; and , indeed , had tradition been silent on the subject , his own ...
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Page 343 - Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated; who could guess If ever more should meet those mutual eyes, Since upon night so sweet such aWful morn could rise!
Page 477 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 535 - Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 540 - Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring happy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Page 159 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 538 - Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Page 540 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right ; Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease ; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old ; Ring in the thousand years of peace.4 1 him. Note the personification. 2 saps the mind. What is the figure? 8 minstrel, bard. 4 thousand years of peace, the millennium. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring...
Page 533 - O love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
Page 160 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 490 - thing of evil— prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore!