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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... heaven ' gan to open fair , And Phoebus , fresh as bridegroom to his mate , Came dancing forth , shaking his dewy hair , And hurled his glistening beams through gloomy air . III . F. Q. , Bk . I. , Canto V. MINISTERING ANGELS . And is ...
... heaven ' gan to open fair , And Phoebus , fresh as bridegroom to his mate , Came dancing forth , shaking his dewy hair , And hurled his glistening beams through gloomy air . III . F. Q. , Bk . I. , Canto V. MINISTERING ANGELS . And is ...
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... 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 A local habitation and a name . V. Midsummer Night's Dream . These ...
... 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 A local habitation and a name . V. Midsummer Night's Dream . These ...
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... heaven in her 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 ...
... heaven in her 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 ...
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... heaven , or near it , Pourest thy full 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 ...
... heaven , or near it , Pourest thy full 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 ...
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... 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 1850 , -the ...
... 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 1850 , -the ...
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