Class Book of Prose and Poetry
Book details
- Title
- Class Book of Prose and Poetry
- Author
- Truman Rickard
- Publication year listed
- 1853
- Format
- Public domain eBook
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Class Book of Prose and Poetry
Author: Truman Rickard
Year: 1853
Class Book of Prose and Poetry; Consisting of Selections from the Best English and American Authors: Designed as Exercises in Parsing; for the use of Common Schools and Academies. by Truman Rickard, A.M. and Hiram Orcutt, A.M. Principal of Thetford (Vt.) Academy Contents: PART I - PROSE Journey of a Day; a Picture of Human Life -- Johnson Night Scene in an American Forest - Chateaubriand Sorrow for the Dead - W. Irving The Bible - Phillips The Religious Faith of the Red Man - Bancroft The Sabbath Bell in the Country - N. P. Willis Studies - Bacon Influence of Human Knowledge - E. Everett Sublimity of Ossian's Poems - Blair Influence of Wordsworth upon Poetical Taste - H. T. Tuckerman Characteristics of Bonaparte's Ambition - Channing Filial Affection - Sheridan The Genius of Shakespeare - Jeffrey Purpose of the Monument on Bunker Hill - Webster PART II -POETRY To Seneca Lake - Percival The Soldier's Dream - Campbell Consumption - Percival From "The Discourse of the Wanderer" - Wordsworth Night - Montgomery From "The Fall of Jerusalem" - Milman Speech of Simon to Titus - Milman Flowers, the Gift of Divine Benignity Mrs. Hemans "Show us the Father" - Mrs. Sigourney The Thoughts of th