Advanced reader : specially prepared to elicit thought and to facilitate literary composition
1884
Advanced reader : specially prepared to elicit thought and to facilitate literary composition
1884
Advanced Reader, Specially Prepared to Elicit Thought and to Facilitate Literary Composition 1884 CONTENTS Lessons in Poetry are indicated by an *. Page Introduction . . . vii Methodology . . . ix Reading . . . xi The Model Man . . . Rev. I. T. Heeler. 1 Veni Creator* . . . John Dryden. 6 Growth and Repair of the Body . . . 9 Delays* . . . Robert Southwell, S. J. 12 The Eagle . . . 14 The Geyser . . . Earl Dufferin. 17 Ring Out, Wild Bells* . . . Lord Tennyson. 20 Buttered on Both Sides . . . 22 Erin’s Flag* . . . Rev. Abram J. Ryan. 25 George Stephenson . . . 27 My Father’s Growing Old* . . . Miss Elizabeth G. Barber. 31 The Shepherd and the Prince . . . 33 Lines written in Richmond Churchyard* . . . Herbert Knowles. 39 Using the Eyes . . . 41 The Picket of the Potomac* . . . 44 The Unknown Painter . . . 46 The Knight’s Toast* . . . 48 The Rising Tide . . . 50 An April Day* . . . Geoffrey Chaucer. 56 Noble Revenge . . . Thomas De Quincy. 58 The Fountain* . . . James Russell Lowell. 61 The Midnight Sun . . . Earl Dufferin. 63 Antony Canova, the Sculptor . . . 66 Old Times* . . . Gerald Griffin. 69 St. Elizabeth of Hungary . . . C. F. R. Montalembert. 71 Love of Country* . . . Sir Walter Scott. 75 The Intrepid Youth . . . 76 Paul Revere’s Ride* . . . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 81 The Revolutionary Alarm . . . George Bancroft. 86 The Dying Christian to his Soul* . . . Alexander Pope. 88 Insufficiency of Natural Religion . . . 90 Lines on a Skeleton* . . . 94 A Terrible Fifty Minutes . . . 95 The Inquiry* Charles Mackay . . . 100 Rules of Behavior . . . George Washington. 102 European Civilization . . . Rev. J. Balmes. 106 Tact and Talent . . . Sidney Smith. 110 The Ship* . . . Wilson. 112 On the Symbolism of Christianity . . . Cardinal Wiseman. 115 Speech of Lord Chatham, on the American War . . . 117 The Meeting of the Waters* . . . Thomas Moore. 120 Joan of Arc . . . Thomas De Quincey. 121 There’s nothing true but Heaven* . . . Thomas Moore. 126 The Lion . . . 127
