Studies in English literature. Being typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic (14798410813)

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Title: Studies in English literature. Being typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ... with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study ..
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Swinton, William, 1833-1892 St. John, Cynthia Morgan, 1852-1919. fmo Wordsworth Collection
Subjects: English literature English literature
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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at earth should stand at gaze like Joshuas moon inAjalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. 250 Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves ofchange. Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the youngerday: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. 25s Mother Age (for mine I knew not), help me as when life begun :Rift the hills, and roll the waters, flash the lightnings, weigh theSun. 528 TENNYSON. Oh, I see the crescent promise of my spirit hath not set. Ancient founts of inspiration well through all my fancy yet. 260 Howsoever these things be, a long farewell to Locksley Hall!Now for me the woods may wither, now for me the roof-treefall. Comes a vapor from the margin, blackening over heath and holt, 265 Cramming all the blast before it, in its breast a thunderbolt. Let it fall on Locksley Hall, with rain or hail, or fire or snow;For the mighty wind arises, roaring seaward, and I go. XXXVI. WILLIAM M. THACKERAY. 1811-1863.
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TRIBUTE BY CHARLES DICKENS. I. I saw Thackeray first, nearly twenty-eight years ago, whenhe proposed to become the illustrator of my earliest book. Isaw him last, shortly before Christmas,^ at the Athengeum Club 1863.34 53 o THACKERAY. when he told me that he had been in bed three days—that, afterthese attacks, he was troubled with cold shiverings, which quitetook the power of work out of him —and that he had it in hismind to try a new remedy which he laughingly described. Hewas very cheerful, and looked very bright. In the night of thatday week he died. 2. The long interval between those two periods is marked inmy remembrance of him by many occasions when he was su-premely humorous, when he was irresistibly extravagant, whenhe was softened and serious, when he was charming with chil-dren. But by none do I recall him more tenderly than by twoor three that start out of the crowd, when he unexpectedly pre-sented himself in my room, announcing how that some passagein a certain book h