The Children's Treasury of Lyrical Poetry: Selected and Arranged with Notes, Part 2Francis Turner Palgrave Macmillan and Company, 1889 - Children's poetry |
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... give pleasure , -high , pure , manly , ( and therefore lasting ) - to children in the stage between early childhood and early youth and no pieces which are not of this character . Poetry , for poetry's sake , is what he offers . To ...
... give pleasure , -high , pure , manly , ( and therefore lasting ) - to children in the stage between early childhood and early youth and no pieces which are not of this character . Poetry , for poetry's sake , is what he offers . To ...
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... give useful lessons for this or the other life , to encourage a patriotic temper— each an aim fit to form the guiding principle of a selection - have here only an indirect and sub- sidiary recognition . It is , however , believed that ...
... give useful lessons for this or the other life , to encourage a patriotic temper— each an aim fit to form the guiding principle of a selection - have here only an indirect and sub- sidiary recognition . It is , however , believed that ...
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... some poor fellow's skull , ' said he , ' Who fell in the great victory . ' 111 doughtily , bravely 115 fame , report 113 October 25 118 give writers such a fine subject ' I find them in the garden , ' For of English Song 5.
... some poor fellow's skull , ' said he , ' Who fell in the great victory . ' 111 doughtily , bravely 115 fame , report 113 October 25 118 give writers such a fine subject ' I find them in the garden , ' For of English Song 5.
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... The mattock totter'd in his hand ; So vain was his endeavour That at the root of the old tree He might have work'd for ever . 80 64 related , told ' You're overtask'd , good Simon Lee , ' Give 14 The Children's Treasury.
... The mattock totter'd in his hand ; So vain was his endeavour That at the root of the old tree He might have work'd for ever . 80 64 related , told ' You're overtask'd , good Simon Lee , ' Give 14 The Children's Treasury.
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... Give me your tool , ' to him I said ; And at the word right gladly he Received my proffer'd aid . I struck , and with a single blow The tangled root I sever'd , At which the poor old man so long And vainly had endeavour'd . 85 The tears ...
... Give me your tool , ' to him I said ; And at the word right gladly he Received my proffer'd aid . I struck , and with a single blow The tangled root I sever'd , At which the poor old man so long And vainly had endeavour'd . 85 The tears ...
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