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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... Night Thoughts . Night Thoughts . He mourns the dead who lives as they desire . The purpose firm is equal to the deed ; Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well , acts nobly : angels could no more . Night Thoughts . ' Tis ...
... Night Thoughts . Night Thoughts . He mourns the dead who lives as they desire . The purpose firm is equal to the deed ; Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well , acts nobly : angels could no more . Night Thoughts . ' Tis ...
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... night , he had ripped open the bedtick and crept in among the feathers . After leaving school Goldsmith tried to be a teacher , a doctor and a lawyer , in each of which he failed . It is said that on one occasion he wanted to be ...
... night , he had ripped open the bedtick and crept in among the feathers . After leaving school Goldsmith tried to be a teacher , a doctor and a lawyer , in each of which he failed . It is said that on one occasion he wanted to be ...
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... night's lodging . During this trip he gathered the necessary knowledge from which he afterward wrote his famous poem The Traveller . Though Goldsmith's life was apparently aimless and changeful , his pen was busy ; and he wrote not only ...
... night's lodging . During this trip he gathered the necessary knowledge from which he afterward wrote his famous poem The Traveller . Though Goldsmith's life was apparently aimless and changeful , his pen was busy ; and he wrote not only ...
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... Night , in which he depicts the happy home- life of his own father's cottage . Burns has been much censured and misrepresented for his atheism and immorality ; but let us draw the veil of charity over his short life , admiring the ...
... Night , in which he depicts the happy home- life of his own father's cottage . Burns has been much censured and misrepresented for his atheism and immorality ; but let us draw the veil of charity over his short life , admiring the ...
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... lights are fled , Whose garlands dead , And all but he departed . Farewell ! Oft in the Stilly Night As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances , May that side the sun's upon Be all that e'er 88 ENGLISH LITERATURE .
... lights are fled , Whose garlands dead , And all but he departed . Farewell ! Oft in the Stilly Night As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances , May that side the sun's upon Be all that e'er 88 ENGLISH LITERATURE .
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ADDISON afterward Alice ALICE CARY American Author beautiful became began biographer born Boston Bryant Byron Cambridge CARLYLE Charles chief Coleridge CONTEMPORANEOUS WRITERS COWPER death died Drake Dryden editor Educated at Harvard Edward EMERSON England English essayist essays Europe EXTRACTS fame father France Franklin George GEORGE ELIOT Goldsmith graduated Halleck heart heaven Henry History J. G. Holland James JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL JEAN INGELOW John language lawyer Lectures literary literature live LL.D London LONGFELLOW LOWELL Massachusetts mind nature never night novelist novels orator OWEN MEREDITH P. J. BAILEY poet political popular President profession professor prose and poetry PROSE-WRITERS published Samuel SAMUEL JOHNSON satire SHAKESPEARE sketches Songs soul Star-Spangled Banner Story Taylor thee things Thomas thou thought tion truth United United States Senator University virtue WHITTIER William William Cullen Bryant Wordsworth Wrote 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!