A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading Authors, English and American, with Full Instructions as to the Method in which These are to be Studied, Adapted for Use in Colleges, High Schools and AcademiesClark & Maynard, 1883 - 478 páginas |
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... Translation and Oral Exercises for Practice in Speaking ; Notes and Vocabulary . In two parts . Part I. - Fables , Anecdotes and Short Stories . Part II . - Selections from the best Modern Writers . 1 vol . , 12mo . 360 pages ...
... Translation and Oral Exercises for Practice in Speaking ; Notes and Vocabulary . In two parts . Part I. - Fables , Anecdotes and Short Stories . Part II . - Selections from the best Modern Writers . 1 vol . , 12mo . 360 pages ...
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... Translations .. Educational .. Theological . Stories .... ་ ་་་ Spenser's Faerie Queen ... 108 His Minor Poems .... 111 Extract from Faerie Queen 112 91 .... Love Poetry 116 Patriotic Poetry .. 117 92 Philosophical Poetry . 119 Translations ...
... Translations .. Educational .. Theological . Stories .... ་ ་་་ Spenser's Faerie Queen ... 108 His Minor Poems .... 111 Extract from Faerie Queen 112 91 .... Love Poetry 116 Patriotic Poetry .. 117 92 Philosophical Poetry . 119 Translations ...
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... translation have no equivalents in the original . Ask the pupils to name the A. S. words of the extract still in our language , though changed in spelling . " The love of wild nature in English poetry , and the peo- pling of it with ...
... translation have no equivalents in the original . Ask the pupils to name the A. S. words of the extract still in our language , though changed in spelling . " The love of wild nature in English poetry , and the peo- pling of it with ...
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... Translation of the Gospel of St. John , as almost his last words were in English verse . the story of his death , told by his disciple , CUTHBERT is the first record of English prose writing . When the last day came , the dying man ...
... Translation of the Gospel of St. John , as almost his last words were in English verse . the story of his death , told by his disciple , CUTHBERT is the first record of English prose writing . When the last day came , the dying man ...
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... translations he , since Bæda's work is lost , is the true father of English prose . As Whitby is the cradle of ... translated the popular manuals of the time into English , but he edited them with large additions of his own , needful ...
... translations he , since Bæda's work is lost , is the true father of English prose . As Whitby is the cradle of ... translated the popular manuals of the time into English , but he edited them with large additions of his own , needful ...
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Página 398 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Página 438 - Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Página 410 - Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry Fays...
Página 410 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Página 410 - Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain To thy high requiem become a sod.
Página 216 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne ,• View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer...
Página 437 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Página 197 - Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Página 262 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Página 421 - ... human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...