A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper. Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes ... Designed as a Text-book for the Highest Classes in Schools and for Junior Classes in Colleges, as Well as Well as for Private ReadingE. C. and J. Biddle & Company, 1860 - 762 pages |
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... Young Ladies in this city , I felt greatly the want of a book to give my first or " finish- ing ' class a knowledge of the best British Poets and Prose writers , arranged in a chronological order , to show the progress of the English ...
... Young Ladies in this city , I felt greatly the want of a book to give my first or " finish- ing ' class a knowledge of the best British Poets and Prose writers , arranged in a chronological order , to show the progress of the English ...
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... young , principles essential to their well - being and happiness for time and for eternity - principles in harmony with everlasting truth . CHARLES D. CLEVELAND . PHILADELPHIA , November 2 , 1847 . PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . THOUGH ...
... young , principles essential to their well - being and happiness for time and for eternity - principles in harmony with everlasting truth . CHARLES D. CLEVELAND . PHILADELPHIA , November 2 , 1847 . PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . THOUGH ...
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... , MATTHEW 398 WICLIF , JOHN QUARLES , FRANCIS 186 WYATT , THOMAS RALEIGH , WALTER 146 YALDEN , THOMAS KICHARDSON , SAMUEL . 525 YOUNG , EDWARD SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE . From the Prologue .. The Chinese 8 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF AUTHORS .
... , MATTHEW 398 WICLIF , JOHN QUARLES , FRANCIS 186 WYATT , THOMAS RALEIGH , WALTER 146 YALDEN , THOMAS KICHARDSON , SAMUEL . 525 YOUNG , EDWARD SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE . From the Prologue .. The Chinese 8 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF AUTHORS .
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... Young Lady , ( note ) . 301 His Latinized English . 302 258 Sonnet on his own Blindness .. 259 IZAAK WALTON 302 To Cyriack Skinner ... 260 Complete Angler .. 303 To a Virtuous Young Lady . ..... 260 Falconry , account of , ( note ) ...
... Young Lady , ( note ) . 301 His Latinized English . 302 258 Sonnet on his own Blindness .. 259 IZAAK WALTON 302 To Cyriack Skinner ... 260 Complete Angler .. 303 To a Virtuous Young Lady . ..... 260 Falconry , account of , ( note ) ...
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... YOUNG 555 Introduction to the Night Thoughts , PHILIP DODDRIDGE . 499 the Value of Time , & c .. 556 Letter to a Female Friend . 500 Man's Resolutions to Reform 559 Letter to his Wife ... 501 Life and Death- 559 The true Use of Learning ...
... YOUNG 555 Introduction to the Night Thoughts , PHILIP DODDRIDGE . 499 the Value of Time , & c .. 556 Letter to a Female Friend . 500 Man's Resolutions to Reform 559 Letter to his Wife ... 501 Life and Death- 559 The true Use of Learning ...
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Page 596 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Await alike th' inevitable hour: — The paths of glory lead but...
Page 259 - 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 266 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 597 - Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 164 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 244 - 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 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear.
Page 316 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That had'st thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee, —...
Page 141 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 255 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild: then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train: But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb,...
Page 598 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.