A Hand-book of English and American Literature: Historical and Critical : with Illustrations of the Writings of Each Successive Period : for the Use of Schools and Academies |
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... review by having the pupils themselves ask the question . Give , for in- stance , a certain period to be reviewed , and request each pupil to come prepared with , say ten questions upon that period , prepared , also , to answer them ...
... review by having the pupils themselves ask the question . Give , for in- stance , a certain period to be reviewed , and request each pupil to come prepared with , say ten questions upon that period , prepared , also , to answer them ...
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... review of the literary productions of a nation , with the causes which mould the thoughts , feelings , and expressions of each suc- cessive period of time . The history of English literature begins in the seventh cen- tury after Christ ...
... review of the literary productions of a nation , with the causes which mould the thoughts , feelings , and expressions of each suc- cessive period of time . The history of English literature begins in the seventh cen- tury after Christ ...
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... review of the literary produc- tions of a nation . The history of English literature begins in the seventh century . The history of the English language begins with the remotest history of the Aryan race . The seven great branches of ...
... review of the literary produc- tions of a nation . The history of English literature begins in the seventh century . The history of the English language begins with the remotest history of the Aryan race . The seven great branches of ...
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... review of the rest . The translation , which was commenced in 1607 , was published in 1611 . " * Other Translators . Among some of the translators of other works , three take foremost rank . GEORGE CHAPMAN ( 1557-1634 ) , already ...
... review of the rest . The translation , which was commenced in 1607 , was published in 1611 . " * Other Translators . Among some of the translators of other works , three take foremost rank . GEORGE CHAPMAN ( 1557-1634 ) , already ...
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... review , * but gave dignity and popularity to the Essay , which , from its regular and ap- pointed appearance in the Tatler , Spectator , etc. , has been styled somewhat awkwardly the Periodical Essay . The essays of Bacon a hundred ...
... review , * but gave dignity and popularity to the Essay , which , from its regular and ap- pointed appearance in the Tatler , Spectator , etc. , has been styled somewhat awkwardly the Periodical Essay . The essays of Bacon a hundred ...
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Page 196 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent!
Page 473 - THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ! Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
Page 301 - To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease ; For Summer has o'erbrimmed their clammy cells.
Page 197 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave ! where is thy victory ? O Death! where is thy sting?
Page 239 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face...
Page 365 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. 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.
Page 298 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Page 131 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
Page 107 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits, and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms...
Page 148 - 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 ?