Literature for Beginners: Containing Biographies of the Most Prominent Authors, British and American, with Extracts from Their Writings. Also Gems of Thought, Birthdays of Authors, Pseudonyms, Contemporaneous Writers, EtcE.L. Raub & Company, 1883 - 287 páginas |
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... devoting his time to literature and philosophy , as he had hoped to do , he was obliged to settle down to a profession ; and he immediately began the study of law . Not only did Bacon ... devoted to the 24 ENGLISH LITERATURE . FRANCIS BACON.
... devoting his time to literature and philosophy , as he had hoped to do , he was obliged to settle down to a profession ; and he immediately began the study of law . Not only did Bacon ... devoted to the 24 ENGLISH LITERATURE . FRANCIS BACON.
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... devoted to the writing of his Essays , which are still regarded as his most popular literary works . During his ... devoting his active hours to the study of his favorite subject - natural science . It is said that he died a martyr to ...
... devoted to the writing of his Essays , which are still regarded as his most popular literary works . During his ... devoting his active hours to the study of his favorite subject - natural science . It is said that he died a martyr to ...
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... devoted to the old English ballads . At court he was a greatly - admired gallant , but he was always diffident and talked but little . At the age of thirty - two he married Lady Elizabeth Howard , daughter of the earl of Berkshire ; but ...
... devoted to the old English ballads . At court he was a greatly - admired gallant , but he was always diffident and talked but little . At the age of thirty - two he married Lady Elizabeth Howard , daughter of the earl of Berkshire ; but ...
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... devoted most of his time to ancient and modern languages and to writing poetry . Horace Walpole was Gray's intimate friend at col- lege , and when they left school they decided to make a tour of the Continent together . The two friends ...
... devoted most of his time to ancient and modern languages and to writing poetry . Horace Walpole was Gray's intimate friend at col- lege , and when they left school they decided to make a tour of the Continent together . The two friends ...
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... devote his whole time to literature . He first wrote poems , many of which , as Marmion , Lay of the Last Minstrel and Lady of the Lake , are still read with great pleasure . But just about this time Ryron began to be popular in England ...
... devote his whole time to literature . He first wrote poems , many of which , as Marmion , Lay of the Last Minstrel and Lady of the Lake , are still read with great pleasure . But just about this time Ryron began to be popular in England ...
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Addison afterward ALICE CARY American Author beautiful became began biographer born Byron Cambridge CARLYLE Charles Chaucer chief child Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Coleridge College CONTEMPORANEOUS WRITERS CowPER death died Dryden Edinburgh editor Educated at Harvard England English Essay essayist Europe EXTRACTS Faerie Queene fame father France George GEORGE ELIOT Goldsmith graduated heart heaven Henry History James JEAN INGELOW John Lady language lawyer Lectures literary literature live London LONGFELLOW married Milton mind nature never night novelist novels orator Oxford P. J. BAILEY Phoebe Cary poems poet political Pope popular profession professor PROSE-WRITERS Queen REPRESENTATIVE WRITERS Samuel satire Scott SHAKESPEARE songs soul Southey Spenser spent Star-Spangled Banner stories student style thee things Thomas thou thought truth University University of Edinburgh virtue volumes William William Cullen Bryant Wordsworth Wrote Yale Yale College York young youth
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Página 164 - TWAS the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there...
Página 172 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Página 184 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Página 273 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 207 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Página 99 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Página 94 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 162 - Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.
Página 188 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of, forgotten lore, — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. '"Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door: Only this and nothing more.
Página 182 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!