The Literary Reader: Typical Selections from Some of the Best British and American Authors, from Shakespeare to the Present Time, Chronologically Arranged with Biographical and Critical Sketches and Numerous Notes, Etc., EtcIvison, Blakeman, Taylor, 1874 - 426 σελίδες |
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... person need be told how potent in the formation of character and in the shaping of , the national life is the influence of books . The rapid increase of our schools in numbers and efficiency , the multiplication of public libraries ...
... person need be told how potent in the formation of character and in the shaping of , the national life is the influence of books . The rapid increase of our schools in numbers and efficiency , the multiplication of public libraries ...
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... person more who is called among them the universal artist . He told us he had been thirty years employing his thoughts for the improvement of human life . He had two large rooms full of wonderful curiosities , and fifty men at work ...
... person more who is called among them the universal artist . He told us he had been thirty years employing his thoughts for the improvement of human life . He had two large rooms full of wonderful curiosities , and fifty men at work ...
Σελίδα 17
... person for his great communicativeness , and promised , if ever I had the good fortune to return to my native country , that I would do him justice , as the sole inventor of this wonderful machine , the form and contrivance of which I ...
... person for his great communicativeness , and promised , if ever I had the good fortune to return to my native country , that I would do him justice , as the sole inventor of this wonderful machine , the form and contrivance of which I ...
Σελίδα 50
... person , you know , was fine , his stature exactly what one would wish ; his deportment easy , erect , and noble , the best horseman of his age , and the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback . Although in the circle of ...
... person , you know , was fine , his stature exactly what one would wish ; his deportment easy , erect , and noble , the best horseman of his age , and the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback . Although in the circle of ...
Σελίδα 51
... persons of literary taste , who persuaded Burns to publish a volume . The venture brought him fame at once , and twenty pounds , one hundred dollars , in money . He visited Edinburgh on invitation of Dr. Blacklock , and was well ...
... persons of literary taste , who persuaded Burns to publish a volume . The venture brought him fame at once , and twenty pounds , one hundred dollars , in money . He visited Edinburgh on invitation of Dr. Blacklock , and was well ...
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Σελίδα 75 - I N Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Σελίδα 116 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood, In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas! they all are in their graves: the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie; but the cold November rain Calls not, from out the gloomy earth, the lovely ones again.
Σελίδα 65 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace: While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and...
Σελίδα 11 - And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st ; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dovelike satst brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant: What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Σελίδα 119 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there; And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Σελίδα 76 - And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced...
Σελίδα 30 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity...
Σελίδα 3 - scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven. It was my hint to speak, such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Σελίδα 117 - To him who, in the love of Nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language : for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty ; and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Σελίδα 5 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors 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.