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., Etc |
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... 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 . Last scene of all , That ends this strange eventful ...
... 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 . Last scene of all , That ends this strange eventful ...
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... side of the academy , the other being appropriated to the advancers of speculative learning , of whom I shall say ... sides whereof all his pupils stood in ranks . It was 16 CATHCART'S LITERARY READER .
... side of the academy , the other being appropriated to the advancers of speculative learning , of whom I shall say ... sides whereof all his pupils stood in ranks . It was 16 CATHCART'S LITERARY READER .
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... side of it , who kept his eye upon him in the same posture as when he watches for his prey . The Indian immediately started back , whilst the lion rose with a spring , and leaped towards him . Being wholly destitute of all other weapons ...
... side of it , who kept his eye upon him in the same posture as when he watches for his prey . The Indian immediately started back , whilst the lion rose with a spring , and leaped towards him . Being wholly destitute of all other weapons ...
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... side of a great river , and being a good fisherman himself , stood upon the banks of it some time to look upon an angler that had taken a great many shapes of fishes , which lay flouncing up and down by him . I should have told my ...
... side of a great river , and being a good fisherman himself , stood upon the banks of it some time to look upon an angler that had taken a great many shapes of fishes , which lay flouncing up and down by him . I should have told my ...
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... side . At his approach Yaratilda flew into his arms , whilst Marraton wished himself disencumbered of that body which kept her from his embraces . After many questions and endearments on both sides , she conducted him to a bower which ...
... side . At his approach Yaratilda flew into his arms , whilst Marraton wished himself disencumbered of that body which kept her from his embraces . After many questions and endearments on both sides , she conducted him to a bower which ...
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Page 120 - WHITHER, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 6 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Page 65 - Oh! Young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best; And save his good broadsword he weapons had none, He rode all unarmed and he rode all alone. So faithful in love and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 261 - Vex not his ghost — oh ! let him pass — he hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer ! ' Hush ! Strife and Quarrel, over the solemn grave ! Sound, trumpets, a mournful march.
Page 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.
Page 246 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we — Of many far wiser than we — And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea , Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee...
Page 24 - His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given. Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear...
Page 65 - I long woo'd your daughter, my suit you denied — Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide — And now am I come, with this lost love of mine, To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine. There are maidens in Scotland, more lovely by far, That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar.
Page 239 - O, hark, O, hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O, sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 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, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss, And mad'st it pregnant...