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"A capital, sensible, entertaining, and true-to-nature work."-B. HAYDON. 2. A COURSE of ENGLISH READING; or, How and What to Study. Fourth Edition.. . Fcp. 8vo. 58. "This is the only work which answers the question commonly asked by young persons, 'What books would you advise me to read?" GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. 3. The CRICKET FIELD: Our National Game treated Historically, Scientifically, and Classically. Third Edition, with Plates and Woodcuts .Fcp. 8vo. 58. 4. VIRGIL; with Marginal References to 6000 Parallel Passages in Hesiod, Theocritus, Homer, Livy, and other Authors. With Concise Notes.

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AGONY POINT; or, the Groans of Gentility: a Tale

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A COURSE

OF

ENGLISH READING

OR

HOW AND WHAT TO STUDY

ADAPTED то EVERY TASTE AND CAPACITY

WITH

LITERARY ANECDOTES

BY THE

REV. JAMES PYCROFT, B.A. TRIN. COLL. Oxford

AUTHOR OF "TWENTY YEARS IN THE CHURCH"

RECOLLECTIONS OF COLLEGE DAYS" "THE CRICKET-FIELD" ETC.

FOURTH EDITION

LONDON

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS

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PREFACE

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THE FOURTH

EDITION.

MISS JANE C. divided her in-door hours into three parts: the housekeeping and dinner-ordering cares of life claimed one part; hearing two younger sisters say their lessons a second part; and during the third and most delightful remainder she would lock her chamber door, and move on the marker of Russell's "Modern Europe" at the rate of never less than fifteen pages an hour, and sometimes more.

Being so vexatious as to ask wherein her satisfaction consisted, I was told in the thought that she did her duty; that she kept her resolution; that she read as much as her friends; that continually fewer histories remained to be read; and that she hoped one day to excel in literature.

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