Boys' and Girls' Bookshelf: Little journeys into booklandUniversity Society, 1912 |
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... known hymn beginning : " The spacious firmament on high , With all the blue ethereal sky , And spangled heavens , a shining frame , Their great Original proclaim . " Addison's poems are not now read so much as his prose . He wrote a ...
... known hymn beginning : " The spacious firmament on high , With all the blue ethereal sky , And spangled heavens , a shining frame , Their great Original proclaim . " Addison's poems are not now read so much as his prose . He wrote a ...
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... known as pygmies and the long - legged cranes that lived in the marshes . Now , the Homeric poems were made more than two thousand years ago , and the pygmy and crane war probably was known even before Homer's time . So we may be sure ...
... known as pygmies and the long - legged cranes that lived in the marshes . Now , the Homeric poems were made more than two thousand years ago , and the pygmy and crane war probably was known even before Homer's time . So we may be sure ...
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... known for hundreds of years , and have been handed down since early ages , at first by memory alone , and after that by writing and printing . Some of them began as true stories , but as the years went on they became so changed that now ...
... known for hundreds of years , and have been handed down since early ages , at first by memory alone , and after that by writing and printing . Some of them began as true stories , but as the years went on they became so changed that now ...
Contents
OUR GREAT AMERICAN WRITERS PART I | 1 |
POEMS FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES PART I | 14 |
FIVE GREAT ENGLISH WRITERS INTRODUCED TO LITTLE FOLK | 27 |
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