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... selected for its great value as a means of culture . The selections cover every impor- tant province of human interest . There is a breadth and universality of theme and treatment , and an artistic excellence in the literature used ...
... selected for its great value as a means of culture . The selections cover every impor- tant province of human interest . There is a breadth and universality of theme and treatment , and an artistic excellence in the literature used ...
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... selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson , Oliver Wendell Holmes , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , James Russell Lowell , John Greenleaf Whittier , and Zitkala - Sa are used by the kind permission of and by special arrange- ment with Messrs ...
... selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson , Oliver Wendell Holmes , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , James Russell Lowell , John Greenleaf Whittier , and Zitkala - Sa are used by the kind permission of and by special arrange- ment with Messrs ...
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... selection is taken from " The Prairie , " one of the " Leatherstocking Tales . " These books give an account of the career of Natty Bumpo , or Leatherstocking , a famous character in American fiction . He is the old man in the story ...
... selection is taken from " The Prairie , " one of the " Leatherstocking Tales . " These books give an account of the career of Natty Bumpo , or Leatherstocking , a famous character in American fiction . He is the old man in the story ...
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... selecting a handful of the driest of the herbage , he placed it over the pan of his rifle . The light combustible kindled at the flash . Then he placed the 10 little flame in a bed of the standing fog , and withdrawing from the spot to ...
... selecting a handful of the driest of the herbage , he placed it over the pan of his rifle . The light combustible kindled at the flash . Then he placed the 10 little flame in a bed of the standing fog , and withdrawing from the spot to ...
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... selection is taken from " Sartor Resartus , " a collection of whimsical essays on various topics , in which the ... selected during the French war say thirty able - bodied men . Dumdrudge , at her own expense , has nursed them . She has ...
... selection is taken from " Sartor Resartus , " a collection of whimsical essays on various topics , in which the ... selected during the French war say thirty able - bodied men . Dumdrudge , at her own expense , has nursed them . She has ...
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Page 171 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Page 166 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 318 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 319 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble...
Page 318 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 113 - Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts, and wakes ; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Page 112 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams...
Page 126 - At the usual evening hour the chapel bell began to toll, and Thomas Newcome's hands outside the bed feebly beat time. And just as the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, " Adsum !
Page 296 - for Aix is in sight!" "How they'll greet us!" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Page 296 - twixt my knees on the ground, And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine, As I poured down his throat our last measure of wine, Which (the burgesses voted by common consent) Was no more than his due who brought good news from Ghent.