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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... popular one is his Essays . Knowledge is power . EXTRACTS . I. II . No pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage - ground of truth . III . A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism , but depth in philosophy ...
... popular one is his Essays . Knowledge is power . EXTRACTS . I. II . No pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage - ground of truth . III . A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism , but depth in philosophy ...
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... popular in his day . ABRAHAM COWLEY ( 1618-1667 ) , once regarded as a great poet , author of The Mistress ( or Love Verses ) , Pindaric Odes , Davideis , etc .; also of some ex . cellent Essays . GEORGE WITHER ( 1588-1667 ) , a soldier ...
... popular in his day . ABRAHAM COWLEY ( 1618-1667 ) , once regarded as a great poet , author of The Mistress ( or Love Verses ) , Pindaric Odes , Davideis , etc .; also of some ex . cellent Essays . GEORGE WITHER ( 1588-1667 ) , a soldier ...
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... popularity , not because he had any great message to deliver . Hence , though he was endowed with genius of the high- est order , his life was comparatively a failure . He wrote dramas , poems , and essays . The best of his dramas is ...
... popularity , not because he had any great message to deliver . Hence , though he was endowed with genius of the high- est order , his life was comparatively a failure . He wrote dramas , poems , and essays . The best of his dramas is ...
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... popularity , and still stands unrivalled in its field . Gibbon was a man of profound learning and wide research , and his work is therefore exhaustive ; but it is never dry or diffuse . On the contrary , it is written in a style ...
... popularity , and still stands unrivalled in its field . Gibbon was a man of profound learning and wide research , and his work is therefore exhaustive ; but it is never dry or diffuse . On the contrary , it is written in a style ...
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... popular poems . LETITIA E. LANDON , afterwards Mrs. McLean ( 1802-1838 ) , author of The Lost Pleiad , The Improvisatrice , Crescentius , and many other poems ; also Romance and Reality , and other novels . REV . GEORGE Crabbe ( 1754 ...
... popular poems . LETITIA E. LANDON , afterwards Mrs. McLean ( 1802-1838 ) , author of The Lost Pleiad , The Improvisatrice , Crescentius , and many other poems ; also Romance and Reality , and other novels . REV . GEORGE Crabbe ( 1754 ...
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