A first class reader; consisting of extracts, in prose and verse, with biographical and critical notices of the authors for the use of advanced classes in public and private schools - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1861 Excerpt: ... I know that we shall meet our babe (his mother dear and I) Where God for aye shall wipe away all tears from every eye. Whate'er befalls his brethren twain, his bliss can never cease; Their lot may here be grief and fear, but his is certain peace. It may be that the tempter's wiles their souls from bliss may sever, But, if our own poor faith fail not, he must be ours forever. 'When we think of what our darling is, and what we still must be; When we muse on that world's perfect bliss, and this world's misery; When we groan beneath this load of sin, and feel this grief and pain,--O, we'd rather lose our other two than have him here again. XXXVin.--COMBAT BETWEEN THE KNIGHT OF THE LEOPARD AND SALADIN. Scott. walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, August 15, 1771, and died at Abbotsford, September 21,1832. In 1792 he was called to the Scotch bar as an advocate; but he made but little progress in his profession, being soon allured from it by the higher attractions of literature. After having written and published a few fugitive pieces, and edited a collection of border ballads, he broke upon the world, in 1805, with his Lay of the Last Minstrel, which was received with a burst of admiration almost without parallel in literary history. This was followed by Marmlon and The Lady of the Lake, which added to the author's reputation, and by Rokeby and The Lord of the Isles, which fairly sustained it. These poems were unlike any thing that had preceded them. Their versification was easy and graceful, though sometimes slovenly; their style was energetic and condensed; their pictures were glowing and faithful; the characters and incidents were fresh and startling; and in the battle scenes there was a power of painting which rivalled the pages of Homer. The whole civilized wo...