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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... Tears , Content and Rich , etc. SAMUEL DANIEL ( 1562-1619 ) , known as " well - languaged Daniel , " author of Musophilus , and History of the Wars of the Roses . MICHAEL DRAYTON ( 1563-1631 ) , author of Polyolbion and many other poems ...
... Tears , Content and Rich , etc. SAMUEL DANIEL ( 1562-1619 ) , known as " well - languaged Daniel , " author of Musophilus , and History of the Wars of the Roses . MICHAEL DRAYTON ( 1563-1631 ) , author of Polyolbion and many other poems ...
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... tears from the eyelids start . " Hence his words find a ready response in the universal heart , and his Highland Mary , Bonny Doon , Auld Lang Syne , and a hun- dred other songs , have a perennial freshness , and have become household ...
... tears from the eyelids start . " Hence his words find a ready response in the universal heart , and his Highland Mary , Bonny Doon , Auld Lang Syne , and a hun- dred other songs , have a perennial freshness , and have become household ...
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... tear has more Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore . III . All who joy would win , Must share it ; Happiness was born a twin . IV . The sky is changed ! and such a change ! O night , And storm , and darkness ! ye are wondrous ...
... tear has more Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore . III . All who joy would win , Must share it ; Happiness was born a twin . IV . The sky is changed ! and such a change ! O night , And storm , and darkness ! ye are wondrous ...
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... tears , " pervades all his works , and forms their leading characteristic . For this reason he may appropriately be called " the English Bryant , ” just as Bryant may be called " the American Wordsworth . " He is now , by common consent ...
... tears , " pervades all his works , and forms their leading characteristic . For this reason he may appropriately be called " the English Bryant , ” just as Bryant may be called " the American Wordsworth . " He is now , by common consent ...
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... Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart . II . When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing , he has one good reason for letting it alone . III . Oh , many a shaft at random ...
... Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart . II . When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing , he has one good reason for letting it alone . III . Oh , many a shaft at random ...
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