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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Page 51
... Leaves , are simple and beautiful . Among his finest poems are The Scholar Gipsy , Thyrsis , an elegy on his poet - friend Arthur Hugh Clough , one of the finest since Shelley's Adonais , Balder Dead , Sohrab and Rustum , Philomela ...
... Leaves , are simple and beautiful . Among his finest poems are The Scholar Gipsy , Thyrsis , an elegy on his poet - friend Arthur Hugh Clough , one of the finest since Shelley's Adonais , Balder Dead , Sohrab and Rustum , Philomela ...
Page 93
... leaves off and ignorance begins . POE . 1809-1849 . Edgar Allan Poe , a brilliant but erratic genius , was born in Boston in 1809. Left an orphan at an early age , he was adopted by Mr. Allan , a wealthy gentleman of Richmond , who gave ...
... leaves off and ignorance begins . POE . 1809-1849 . Edgar Allan Poe , a brilliant but erratic genius , was born in Boston in 1809. Left an orphan at an early age , he was adopted by Mr. Allan , a wealthy gentleman of Richmond , who gave ...
Page 100
... leaves , and the amber grain Shrunk in the wind , and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain . STEDMAN . 1833- Edmund Clarence Stedman , son of a poetess ( Mrs. E. C. Kin- ney ) , is a banker , a poet , and a critic ...
... leaves , and the amber grain Shrunk in the wind , and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain . STEDMAN . 1833- Edmund Clarence Stedman , son of a poetess ( Mrs. E. C. Kin- ney ) , is a banker , a poet , and a critic ...
Page 105
... Leaves of Grass . JULIA WARD HOWE ( 1819- ) , author of a stirring war lyric , Battle Hymn of the Republic ( embraced in Later Lyrics ) , Life of Margaret Fuller- Ossoli , Modern Society , etc. II . PROSE WRITERS OF THE NATIONAL AGE ...
... Leaves of Grass . JULIA WARD HOWE ( 1819- ) , author of a stirring war lyric , Battle Hymn of the Republic ( embraced in Later Lyrics ) , Life of Margaret Fuller- Ossoli , Modern Society , etc. II . PROSE WRITERS OF THE NATIONAL AGE ...
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... leaves behind him . COOPER . 1789-1851 . James Fenimore Cooper , the first of our novelists who won a European reputation , was born in New Jersey in 1789. He en tered Yale College , but did not graduate ; served six years in the navy ...
... leaves behind him . COOPER . 1789-1851 . James Fenimore Cooper , the first of our novelists who won a European reputation , was born in New Jersey in 1789. He en tered Yale College , but did not graduate ; served six years in the navy ...
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