Common-school Literature, English and American: With Several Hundred Extracts to be MemorizedContains a short sketch about Eugene Field and his work (p. 123-124). |
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... , regular as infants ' breath ; And three firm friends , more sure than day and night , — Himself , his Maker , and the angel death . Reproof . DE QUINCEY . 1785-1859 : Thomas De Quincey , known 42 COMMON - SCHOOL LITERATURE .
... , regular as infants ' breath ; And three firm friends , more sure than day and night , — Himself , his Maker , and the angel death . Reproof . DE QUINCEY . 1785-1859 : Thomas De Quincey , known 42 COMMON - SCHOOL LITERATURE .
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... breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian Whose portal we call death . III . Be not like a stream that brawls Loud with shallow waterfalls , But in quiet self - control Link together soul and soul . IV . Alike are life and death , When ...
... breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian Whose portal we call death . III . Be not like a stream that brawls Loud with shallow waterfalls , But in quiet self - control Link together soul and soul . IV . Alike are life and death , When ...
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... breath , Something must die . HARTE . 1837-1902 . Bitter - Sweet Francis Bret Harte was born at Albany , N. Y. , in 1837. At the age of seventeen he went to California , where he became suc- cessively a school - teacher , a miner , a ...
... breath , Something must die . HARTE . 1837-1902 . Bitter - Sweet Francis Bret Harte was born at Albany , N. Y. , in 1837. At the age of seventeen he went to California , where he became suc- cessively a school - teacher , a miner , a ...
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... breathing a living soul into every- thing that he touched with the magic wand of his genius . EXTRACTS . I. No fountain ... breath - when it is made up of a breeze like this ! It comes with a real kiss upon our cheeks ; it would linger ...
... breathing a living soul into every- thing that he touched with the magic wand of his genius . EXTRACTS . I. No fountain ... breath - when it is made up of a breeze like this ! It comes with a real kiss upon our cheeks ; it would linger ...
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... breath in the sails . Then murmur no more , In lull or in roar , But smile and be brave till the voyage is o'er . " - A Song of the Cruise . 66 EUGENE FIELD ( 1850-1895 ) , credited to the West , though reared and educated in New ...
... breath in the sails . Then murmur no more , In lull or in roar , But smile and be brave till the voyage is o'er . " - A Song of the Cruise . 66 EUGENE FIELD ( 1850-1895 ) , credited to the West , though reared and educated in New ...
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