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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... study of pure literature , and sowing in many a heart the fructifying seeds of truth , the author herewith submits it to an indulgent public . MILLERSVILLE , PA . 42019 iii IN the edition herewith presented a few errors in dates.
... study of pure literature , and sowing in many a heart the fructifying seeds of truth , the author herewith submits it to an indulgent public . MILLERSVILLE , PA . 42019 iii IN the edition herewith presented a few errors in dates.
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... heart as the true sources of poetic inspiration . This improvement was begun by Thomson in the preceding age , and carried to a glorious consum- mation near the close of this , by Burns , Goldsmith , and Cowper . There was also a great ...
... heart as the true sources of poetic inspiration . This improvement was begun by Thomson in the preceding age , and carried to a glorious consum- mation near the close of this , by Burns , Goldsmith , and Cowper . There was also a great ...
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... heart As showers from the clouds of summer , Or tears from the eyelids start . " Hence his words find a ready response in the universal heart , and his Highland Mary , Bonny Doon , Auld Lang Syne , and a hun- dred other songs , have a ...
... heart As showers from the clouds of summer , Or tears from the eyelids start . " Hence his words find a ready response in the universal heart , and his Highland Mary , Bonny Doon , Auld Lang Syne , and a hun- dred other songs , have a ...
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... heart , he filled the universe with the scoffs and sneers and fancied woes of Lord Byron . His works contain some magnificent descriptions , fine imagery , and noble sentiments ; but their general tone is misan- thropic , irreligious ...
... heart , he filled the universe with the scoffs and sneers and fancied woes of Lord Byron . His works contain some magnificent descriptions , fine imagery , and noble sentiments ; but their general tone is misan- thropic , irreligious ...
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... heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art . In the golden ligh.ning Of the sunken sun , O'er which clouds are brightening , Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun . • All the earth and air With thy ...
... heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art . In the golden ligh.ning Of the sunken sun , O'er which clouds are brightening , Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun . • All the earth and air With thy ...
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