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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... earth , from earth to heaven ; And , as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . V. Midsummer Night's Dream . These our actors ...
... earth , from earth to heaven ; And , as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . V. Midsummer Night's Dream . These our actors ...
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... earth and air With thy voice is loud , As , when night is bare , From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams , and heaven is overflowed . · Teach us , sprite or bird , What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of ...
... earth and air With thy voice is loud , As , when night is bare , From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams , and heaven is overflowed . · Teach us , sprite or bird , What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of ...
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... earth is never dead . II . A thing of beauty is a joy forever . CAMPBELL . 1777-1844 . Endymion Thomas Campbell was distinguished as a poet and a prosist . His principal poems are - Pleasures of Hope , Gertrude of Wyoming , Lochiel's ...
... earth is never dead . II . A thing of beauty is a joy forever . CAMPBELL . 1777-1844 . Endymion Thomas Campbell was distinguished as a poet and a prosist . His principal poems are - Pleasures of Hope , Gertrude of Wyoming , Lochiel's ...
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... earth and heaven . To the Rainbow . WORDSWORTH . 1770-1850 . William Wordsworth , the principal of the " Lake Poets , " was born in 1770 , was educated at Cambridge , passed a tranquil and uneventful life , and died at Rydal Mount in ...
... earth and heaven . To the Rainbow . WORDSWORTH . 1770-1850 . William Wordsworth , the principal of the " Lake Poets , " was born in 1770 , was educated at Cambridge , passed a tranquil and uneventful life , and died at Rydal Mount in ...
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... earth death cometh soon or late ; And how can man die better than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods ? Horatius : Lays of Ancient Rome . GROTE . 1794-1871 . George Grote , born in 1794 , was a ...
... earth death cometh soon or late ; And how can man die better than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods ? Horatius : Lays of Ancient Rome . GROTE . 1794-1871 . George Grote , born in 1794 , was a ...
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