Famous Authors and the Best Literature of England and America ...: Together with Choice Selections from Their Writings ...William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones |
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... ENGLISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS IN STORY FORM . THEIR PORTRAITS , THEIR HOMES AND THEIR PERSONAL TRAITS . HOW THEY WORKED AND WHAT THEY WROTE TOGETHER WITH CHOICE SELECTIONS FROM THEIR WRITINGS EMBRACING THE GREAT POETS OF ENGLAND AND ...
... ENGLISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS IN STORY FORM . THEIR PORTRAITS , THEIR HOMES AND THEIR PERSONAL TRAITS . HOW THEY WORKED AND WHAT THEY WROTE TOGETHER WITH CHOICE SELECTIONS FROM THEIR WRITINGS EMBRACING THE GREAT POETS OF ENGLAND AND ...
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... ENGLISH LITERATURE . 33 64 2 . FAMOUS POETS OF ENGLAND AND THEIR MASTERPIECES . 41 66 3 . THE GREAT ENGLISH PROSE WRITERS . 130 66 4 . WRITERS OF RELIGIOUS CLASSICS . 142 66 5 . FAMOUS ENGLISH NOVELISTS . 157 66 ་ 6. POPULAR WRITERS OF ...
... ENGLISH LITERATURE . 33 64 2 . FAMOUS POETS OF ENGLAND AND THEIR MASTERPIECES . 41 66 3 . THE GREAT ENGLISH PROSE WRITERS . 130 66 4 . WRITERS OF RELIGIOUS CLASSICS . 142 66 5 . FAMOUS ENGLISH NOVELISTS . 157 66 ་ 6. POPULAR WRITERS OF ...
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... English language have been written the stories which best portray the human character , the sweetest songs , the most noble poems ; the English his- torian has seen most deeply into the mists and darkness which shroud the ages of the ...
... English language have been written the stories which best portray the human character , the sweetest songs , the most noble poems ; the English his- torian has seen most deeply into the mists and darkness which shroud the ages of the ...
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... English culture . But while it may be well for some purposes to distinguish between American and English literature , and while there is a special meed of praise due to the genius of those great Americans whose works , here represented ...
... English culture . But while it may be well for some purposes to distinguish between American and English literature , and while there is a special meed of praise due to the genius of those great Americans whose works , here represented ...
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... English and American authors , with a large portion of their best work , in the belief that there will come to the reader instruction as well as enjoy- ment , the culture of a taste for good literature , and the incentive to further ...
... English and American authors , with a large portion of their best work , in the belief that there will come to the reader instruction as well as enjoy- ment , the culture of a taste for good literature , and the incentive to further ...
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Popular passages
Page 81 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied.
Page 97 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own.
Page 78 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 114 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Page 55 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Page 53 - And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.
Page 54 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels trumpet-tongued against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Page 97 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed— in breeze, or gale, or storm — Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible...
Page 303 - But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. Nothing further then he uttered — not a feather then he fluttered — Till I scarcely more than muttered, "Other friends have flown before. On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.
Page 51 - Love thyself last ; cherish those hearts that hate thee : Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's; then, if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.