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The Grandfather ( waking up ) . Am I fac- The Grandfather . I can hear a noise on the ing the glass door ? stairs already The Daughter . You have had a nice sleep , The Father . It is the servant coming up . grandfather ?
Yes , grandfather ; out ; there is as much light as there was benext to you . fore . The Grandfather . And who is that sitting The Daughter . It seems to me that the lamp there ? has gone down . The Daughter .
What do you want , dear grandfather ? is not living . . . You sit there , all of you , The Grandfather . Give me your little looking with open eyes at my dead eyes , and hands , my children . not one of you has pity on me !
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This is a textbook. "LITERATURE FOR PHILIPPINE HIGH SCHOOLS (Third Year) by Carolyn E Fosdick and Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido had been used by third year students in high schools, both public and private, throughout the Philippines from 1955 to 1965, as authorized by the DepEd Secretary. I was one among those 3rd-year students who used this as a high school textbook in our subject Literature under the instructions of our teacher Miss Obdulla Monzon in Cavite High School in the year 1959 to 1960. It consists of Prose and Poetry, with writings of "Anonymous" author of Beowulf, Geoffrey Chaucer, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Gray, Robert Frost, Robert Burns, Thomas Carlyle, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, Rudyard Kipling, William Shakespeare, Guy de Maupassant, Dante Alighieri, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, John Milton, John Keats, Lord Byron, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, William Wordsworth, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alfred Lord Tennyson, James Russell Lowell, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Pura Santillan Castrence, I.V. Mallari, Francisco B Icasiano, Jose Garcia Villa, N.V.M. Gonzalez, et al. This is an awesome and interesting book. I recommend this to many readers.
By Edgardo Valentino D. Olaes
Contents
The Beginnings of English Literature | 3 |
Poetry | 24 |
THE SHORT STORY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY | 242 |
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| Title | Literature for Philippine High Schools, Volume 3 Literature for Philippine High Schools, Carolyn E. Fosdick |
| Authors | Carolyn E. Fosdick, Trinidad Tarrosa Subido |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 10 Oct 2006 |
| Length | 432 pages |
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