The Standard Fifth Reader

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BoD – Books on Demand, 2023 M10 3 - 480 pages
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
 

Contents

PART
13
66
24
Gladiatorial Combat with a Tiger
29
VII
33
Fall of a Mountain
37
The Spring Shower
42
66
46
A Retrospective Review
48
The Beautiful
264
Archimedes
275
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
276
Ferdinand and Isabella
281
Excelsior
285
THE REPUBLIC
287
What a Common Man may say
293
Strong Drink maketh Feols
294

On Reading Poetry
52
The Lion and the Spaniel
58
The Carrierpigeon
59
God
66
The Folly of Castlebuilding
71
Hymn of the Hebrew Maid
72
RICHTER
92
SELECT Passages in VERSE
100
44
109
The Youth of Washington
117
The Sky
124
Astronomy and Immortality Part I
150
65
162
Selfkilling
168
First Predictor of an Eclipse
174
Advance
179
Inconvenient Ignorance
181
Columbus and his Discovery
187
First Voyage of Columbus
191
Unity and Progress of Mankind
193
Reciprocal Kindness
197
A Storm in the Indian Ocean
200
The Prairies
203
The World of Water
206
The Hurricane
210
The Best Kind of Revenge
213
To the Flyingfish
217
an Allegory
219
The Ship
228
When I am Old
238
Mary Stuart and her Mourner
247
DE QUINCEY AND OTHERS259
263
Delights of Spring Howitt First Warm Day of Spring Horace
298
THE North American Indians
299
Adventure in Calabria
305
In Rome
307
FOSTER WIRT WINTHROP
331
A Storm on the Mountains
334
From Miltons Paradise Lost
348
Part II
350
Miscellaneous PoemS
358
POETRY OF THE SEASONS PART III
374
Telegraphs
376
The Indians among Themselves
382
The Colosseum by Moonlight
386
Literature of the Hebrews
390
Napoleon as a Student
396
Ca ture of a Whale
404
Consolation for a Friends Death
410
Pizarro in Peru
417
The Treasures by the Wayside
423
WEBSTER
425
False and True Energy
431
POETRY OF THE SEASONS
433
Advice to an Affccted Speaker
438
Thought and Deed
447
256
449
DIALOGUES
454
Shakspeares Power of Expression
455
294
459
SHAKSPEARE
463
Contrasted Soliloquies
472
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