The Literary Reader: For Academies and High Schools: Consisting of Selections in Prose and Verse, from American, English and Other Foreign Literature, Chronologically Arranged. Including Biographical Sketches, and Remarks on the Art of Reading |
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... Italian phrase to our English speaking ; the which is as if an orator , that professeth to utter his mind in plain Latin , would needs speak poetry , and far - fetched colors of strange antiquity . The lawyer will store his stomach with ...
... Italian phrase to our English speaking ; the which is as if an orator , that professeth to utter his mind in plain Latin , would needs speak poetry , and far - fetched colors of strange antiquity . The lawyer will store his stomach with ...
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... Italy , where the study of the works of art are supposed to have suggested the grace and beauty of some of his poetical creations in Paradise Lost . His first wife , the daughter of a high Cavalier , left him , in one month after ...
... Italy , where the study of the works of art are supposed to have suggested the grace and beauty of some of his poetical creations in Paradise Lost . His first wife , the daughter of a high Cavalier , left him , in one month after ...
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... Italy has been very much admired . He held various public offices of importance , and engaged with interest in the politics of his day . He married the Countess - dowager of Warwick , but was unhappy in the connection . " His quarrels ...
... Italy has been very much admired . He held various public offices of importance , and engaged with interest in the politics of his day . He married the Countess - dowager of Warwick , but was unhappy in the connection . " His quarrels ...
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... Italy . After this , he returned to the university , and took his degree in civil law , but did not follow the profession . He fixed his residence at Cambridge , and there passed the greater part of his remaining life , in the enjoyment ...
... Italy . After this , he returned to the university , and took his degree in civil law , but did not follow the profession . He fixed his residence at Cambridge , and there passed the greater part of his remaining life , in the enjoyment ...
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... Italy , are his chief works . For more than fifty years he has held a distinguished place in English literature . He has long been a partner in a banking establishment , and has been enabled to enrich his fine 208 THE LITERARY READER ...
... Italy , are his chief works . For more than fifty years he has held a distinguished place in English literature . He has long been a partner in a banking establishment , and has been enabled to enrich his fine 208 THE LITERARY READER ...
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Page 341 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 339 - And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume . The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 47 - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
Page 93 - Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing; And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure; But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation...
Page 218 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 144 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Page 92 - Haste thee nymph and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles. Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled care derides. And laughter holding both his sides.
Page 217 - If this Be but a vain belief, yet, oh! how oft In darkness and amid the many shapes Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart — How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee, O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer thro' the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee!
Page 96 - Oft till the star that rose at evening, bright, Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel. Meanwhile the rural ditties were not mute, Tempered to the oaten flute ; Rough Satyrs danced, and Fauns with cloven heel From the glad sound would not be absent long; And old Damoetas loved to hear our song.
Page 193 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.