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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... Sweet are the uses of adversity , Which , like the toad , ugly and venomous , Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life , exempt from public haunt , Hamlet . Hamlet . Finds tongues in trees , books in the running brooks ...
... Sweet are the uses of adversity , Which , like the toad , ugly and venomous , Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life , exempt from public haunt , Hamlet . Hamlet . Finds tongues in trees , books in the running brooks ...
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... sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine . Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know , Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow , The world ...
... sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine . Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know , Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow , The world ...
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... Sweet and Low , The Bugle Song , etc. Tennyson has published two dramas - Queen Mary and Harold They are interesting historical studies , but not great dramas ; and they add nothing to the author's fame . His death , which occurred at ...
... Sweet and Low , The Bugle Song , etc. Tennyson has published two dramas - Queen Mary and Harold They are interesting historical studies , but not great dramas ; and they add nothing to the author's fame . His death , which occurred at ...
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... sweet , hard kisses are strong like wine , Thy large embraces are keen like pain ! Save me and hide me with all thy waves , Find me one grave of thy thousand graves , Those pure , cold , populous graves of thine , Wrought without hand ...
... sweet , hard kisses are strong like wine , Thy large embraces are keen like pain ! Save me and hide me with all thy waves , Find me one grave of thy thousand graves , Those pure , cold , populous graves of thine , Wrought without hand ...
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... sweet is the night air ! Only , from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon - blanched land , Listen ! you hear the grating roar Merope . Of pebbles that the waves draw back , and fling , At their return , up the high ...
... sweet is the night air ! Only , from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon - blanched land , Listen ! you hear the grating roar Merope . Of pebbles that the waves draw back , and fling , At their return , up the high ...
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