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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... eye , in a fine frenzy rolling , As you Like it . Doth glance from heaven to 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 ...
... eye , in a fine frenzy rolling , As you Like it . Doth glance from heaven to 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 ...
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... eye , In every gesture dignity and love . III . P. L. , Bk . VIII . Accuse not Nature , she hath done her part , Do thou but thine . IV . P. L. , Bk . VIII . Virtue could see to do what virtue would , By her own radiant light , though ...
... eye , In every gesture dignity and love . III . P. L. , Bk . VIII . Accuse not Nature , she hath done her part , Do thou but thine . IV . P. L. , Bk . VIII . Virtue could see to do what virtue would , By her own radiant light , though ...
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... eye in woman ! Far along From peak to peak , the rattling crags among , Leaps the live thunder ! —not from one lone cloud , But every mountain now has found a tongue , And Jura answers through her misty shroud Back to the joyous Alps ...
... eye in woman ! Far along From peak to peak , the rattling crags among , Leaps the live thunder ! —not from one lone cloud , But every mountain now has found a tongue , And Jura answers through her misty shroud Back to the joyous Alps ...
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... eyes aflame , He saw betwixt him and the setting sun The lively image of his loved one . The Earthly Paradise . MATTHEW ARNOLD . 1822-1888 . Matthew Arnold , the celebrated son of a celebrated father , Thomas Arnold , head master of ...
... eyes aflame , He saw betwixt him and the setting sun The lively image of his loved one . The Earthly Paradise . MATTHEW ARNOLD . 1822-1888 . Matthew Arnold , the celebrated son of a celebrated father , Thomas Arnold , head master of ...
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... skimmed over by a wandering eye . A cottage flower gives honey to the bee , —a king's garden none to the butterfly . * Scott is often called " The Wizard of the North . " GEORGE ELIOT . 1820-1880 . " George Eliot " ( VICTORIAN AGE . 57.
... skimmed over by a wandering eye . A cottage flower gives honey to the bee , —a king's garden none to the butterfly . * Scott is often called " The Wizard of the North . " GEORGE ELIOT . 1820-1880 . " George Eliot " ( VICTORIAN AGE . 57.
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