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 Seiten |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Literature for Beginners: Containing Biographies of the Most Prominent ... Harriet B. Swineford Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
Literature for Beginners: Containing Biographies of the Most Prominent ... Harriet B Swineford Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Addison afterward ALFRED TENNYSON ALICE CARY American Author beautiful became began biographer born Byron Cambridge CARLYLE Charles CHARLES LAMB Chaucer chief child Coleridge College CONTEMPORANEOUS WRITERS COWPER death died Dryden Edinburgh editor Educated at Harvard Edward eminent England English Essay essayist Europe EXTRACTS Faerie Queene fame father France George GEORGE ELIOT Goldsmith graduated heart heaven Henry History James JEAN INGELOW John JOHN DRYDEN Johnson language lawyer Lectures literary literature live London LONGFELLOW married Milton mind nature never night novelist novels Oliver Goldsmith orator Oxford Phoebe Cary poems poet political POPE popular profession professor PROSE-WRITERS Queen Samuel SAMUEL JOHNSON satire Scott SHAKESPEARE soul Southey Spenser Star-Spangled Banner student style TENNYSON thee things Thomas thou thought truth University University of Edinburgh virtue volumes William WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wordsworth Wrote Yale Yale College York young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 245 - The struggle of the instinct that enjoys, And the more noble instinct that aspires. LONGFELLOW. 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
Seite 91 - Tis distance lends enchantment to the view And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Pleasures of Hope. . Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name ? Pleasures of Hope. 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.
Seite 160 - Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth that soonest pass away: The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower. A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson, Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again: The eternal years of God are hers; But Krror, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies
Seite 172 - only God may be had for the asking. The Vision of Sir Launfal. And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. The Vision of Sir Launfal.
Seite 250 - Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. SHAKESPEARE. Who steals my purse steals trash : 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been the slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Eobs me of that which not enriches him
Seite 149 - When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air. She tore the azure robe of night And set the stars of glory there; She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light. The American Flag.
Seite 250 - Oh, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. In God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours, In conflict with unholy powers '. We grasp the weapons he has given— The light and truth and love of heaven. SUCCESS.
Seite 152 - The Star-Spangled Banner. And this be our motto, "In God is our trust;" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. The Star-Spangled Banner. How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view ! The Old Oaken Bucket.
Seite 101 - From yon blue heaven above us bent The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Lady Clara Vere de Vere. Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good: Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. Lady Clara Vere de Vere.
Seite 76 - of Summer. You may break, you may shatter, the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed. Farewell!