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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... thing a man may keep . II . Of study took he moste * care and heed ; Not a word spake he more than was nede , And that was said in forme and reverence , And short and quicke , and ful of high sentence ; Souning in moral vertue was his ...
... thing a man may keep . II . Of study took he moste * care and heed ; Not a word spake he more than was nede , And that was said in forme and reverence , And short and quicke , and ful of high sentence ; Souning in moral vertue was his ...
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... things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . V. Midsummer Night's Dream . These our actors , As I foretold you , were all spirits , and Are melted into air , into thin ...
... things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . V. Midsummer Night's Dream . These our actors , As I foretold you , were all spirits , and Are melted into air , into thin ...
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... thing of beauty is a joy forever . CAMPBELL . 1777-1844 . Endymion Thomas Campbell was distinguished as a poet and a prosist . His principal poems are - Pleasures of Hope , Gertrude of Wyoming , Lochiel's Warning , O'Connor's Child ...
... thing of beauty is a joy forever . CAMPBELL . 1777-1844 . Endymion Thomas Campbell was distinguished as a poet and a prosist . His principal poems are - Pleasures of Hope , Gertrude of Wyoming , Lochiel's Warning , O'Connor's Child ...
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... thing , he has one good reason for letting it alone . III . Oh , many a shaft at random sent , Finds mark the archer little meant ; And many a word at random spoken , May soothe or wound a heart that ' s broken . IV . Lord of the Isles ...
... thing , he has one good reason for letting it alone . III . Oh , many a shaft at random sent , Finds mark the archer little meant ; And many a word at random spoken , May soothe or wound a heart that ' s broken . IV . Lord of the Isles ...
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... thing in the world . II . Cleverness is a sort of genius for instrumentality . It is the brain of the hand . III . Greatness and goodness are not means , but ends ! Hath he not always treasures , always friends , The good great man ...
... thing in the world . II . Cleverness is a sort of genius for instrumentality . It is the brain of the hand . III . Greatness and goodness are not means , but ends ! Hath he not always treasures , always friends , The good great man ...
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