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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... line between these periods : literature is not a succession of pools , but a continuous stream , sometimes widening , sometimes narrowing , but ever flowing on . Since these divisions are to some extent arbitrary , we have in this work ...
... line between these periods : literature is not a succession of pools , but a continuous stream , sometimes widening , sometimes narrowing , but ever flowing on . Since these divisions are to some extent arbitrary , we have in this work ...
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... line , " The conscious water saw its God and blushed , " is a translation of one of his Latin verses . PROSE WRITERS . EDWARD HYDE , Earl of Clarendon ( 1608-1673 ) , an eminent Royalist statesman , author of an excellent History of the ...
... line , " The conscious water saw its God and blushed , " is a translation of one of his Latin verses . PROSE WRITERS . EDWARD HYDE , Earl of Clarendon ( 1608-1673 ) , an eminent Royalist statesman , author of an excellent History of the ...
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... lines , such as " The youthful world's gray fathers , " etc. , have been an inspiration to other poets . Some of his most beautiful single poems are The Rainbow , They are All Gone , The World , The Bee . PROSE WRITERS . JOHN LOCKE ...
... lines , such as " The youthful world's gray fathers , " etc. , have been an inspiration to other poets . Some of his most beautiful single poems are The Rainbow , They are All Gone , The World , The Bee . PROSE WRITERS . JOHN LOCKE ...
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... line , The long majestic march and energy divine . ADDISON . 1672-1719 . Epistles of Horace . The history of literature presents few nobler and more symmet- rical characters than that of Joseph Addison . He was born in 1672 , received a ...
... line , The long majestic march and energy divine . ADDISON . 1672-1719 . Epistles of Horace . The history of literature presents few nobler and more symmet- rical characters than that of Joseph Addison . He was born in 1672 , received a ...
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... Lines on My Mother's Picture , The Task ( a long poem in 6 books ) , his Hymns , and the humorous Dallad of John Gilpin . His letters are among the finest speci- mens of epistolary style in the language . They have fitly been called ...
... Lines on My Mother's Picture , The Task ( a long poem in 6 books ) , his Hymns , and the humorous Dallad of John Gilpin . His letters are among the finest speci- mens of epistolary style in the language . They have fitly been called ...
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