The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
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Ontario. Department of Education. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
Table of Contents
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(The Titles of the Selections in Poetry are printed in Italics.)
SHORT EXTRACTS
INDEX OF AUTHORS
INTRODUCTORY
THE HIGH SCHOOL READER
I. KING SOLOMON'S PRAYER AND BLESSING AT THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE
From the First Book of Kings. Translated 1611—Revised 1885
II. INVITATION
From Isaiah. Translated 1611—Revised 1885
III.THE TRIAL SCENE IN THE "MERCHANT OF VENICE."[A]
William Shakespeare.—1564-1616
Footnote
IV. OF BOLDNESS
Lord Bacon.—1561-1626. From Essays
V. TO DAFFODILS
Robert Herrick.—1594-1674
VI. OF CONTENTEDNESS IN ALL ESTATES AND ACCIDENTS
Jeremy Taylor.—1613-1667. From Holy Living
VII. TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS
Richard Lovelace.—1618-1658
VIII. ANGLING
Izaak Walton.—1593-1683. From The Complete Angler
IX. ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY
(1629) John Milton.—1608-1674
THE HYMN
X. CHARACTER OF LORD FALKLAND
Lord Clarendon.—1608-1674. From History of the Rebellion
XI. VENI, CREATOR SPIRITUS
XII. LINES PRINTED UNDER THE PORTRAIT OF MILTON
Dryden
XIII. REASON
Dryden. From Religio Laici
XIV. ON THE LOVE OF COUNTRY AS A PRINCIPLE OF ACTION
Richard Steele.—1672-1729. From The Tatler, June 10, 1710
XV. THE GOLDEN SCALES
Joseph Addison.—1672-1719. From The Spectator, August 21, 1712
XVI. MISJUDGED HOSPITALITY
Jonathan Swift.—1667-1745. From The Tatler, March 6, 1711
XVII. FROM THE "ESSAY ON MAN."[B]
Alexander Pope.—1688-1744
Footnote
XVIII. RULE, BRITANNIA
James Thomson.—1700-1748
XIX. THE FIRST CRUSADE
David Hume.—1711-1776. From History of England
XX. THE BARD
A Pindaric Ode.[D] Thomas Gray.—1716-1771
Footnote
XXI. ON AN ADDRESS TO THE THRONE CONCERNING AFFAIRS IN AMERICA
HOUSE OF LORDS—November 18th, 1777. Lord Chatham.—1708-1778
XXII. FROM "THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD."
THE FAMILY USE ART, WHICH IS OPPOSED WITH STILL. GREATER. Oliver Goldsmith.—1728-1774
XXIII. MEETING OF JOHNSON WITH WILKES
(1776) James Boswell.—1740-1795. From Life of Samuel Johnson, ll. d
Footnote
XXIV. THE POLICY OF THE EMPIRE IN THE FIRST CENTURY
Edward Gibbon.—1737-1794. From The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
XXV. ON THE ATTACKS UPON HIS PENSION.[F]
Edmund Burke.—1729-1797
Footnote
XXVI. TWO EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SCENES
William Cowper.—1731-1800. From letters to the Rev. John Newton
XXVII. FROM "THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL."[G]
Richard Brinsley Sheridan.—1751-1816
Footnote
XXVIII. THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT.[H]
Robert Burns.—1759-1796
Footnote
XXIX. THE LAND O' THE LEAL
Lady Nairn.—1766-1845
XXX. THE TRIAL BY COMBAT AT THE DIAMOND OF THE DESERT.[I]
From The Talisman. Sir Walter Scott.—1771-1832
Footnote
XXXI. TO A HIGHLAND GIRL
(At Inversneyde, upon Loch Lomond.) William Wordsworth.—1770-1850
XXXII. FRANCE: AN ODE
(1797.) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.—1772-1834
XXXIII. COMPLAINT AND REPROOF
Coleridge
XXXIV. THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE
XXXV. THE ISLES OF GREECE
Lord Byron.—1788-1824
XXXVI. GO WHERE GLORY WAITS THEE
Thomas Moore.—1779-1852
XXXVII. DEAR HARP OF MY COUNTRY
Moore
XXXVIII. COME, YE DISCONSOLATE
Moore
XXXIX. ON A LOCK OF MILTON'S HAIR
Leigh Hunt.—1784-1859
XL. THE GLOVE AND THE LIONS
Leigh Hunt
XLI. THE CLOUD
Percy Bysshe Shelley.—1792-1822
XLII. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER
John Keats.—1795-1821
XLIII. ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE CRICKET
Keats
XLIV. THE POWER AND DANGER OF THE CÆSARS
Thomas De Quincey.—1785-1859. From The Cæsars
XLV. UNTHOUGHTFULNESS
Dr. Arnold.—1795-1842. A Lecture delivered in Rugby Chapel
XLVI. THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS
Thomas Hood.—1799-1845
XLVII. A PARENTAL ODE TO MY SON
AGED THREE YEARS AND FIVE MONTHS. Thomas Hood
XLVIII. METAPHYSICS
Thomas Chandler Haliburton.—1796-1865. From Traits of American Humor
XLIX. INDIAN SUMMER.[J]
Samuel Lover.—1797-1868
Footnote
L. TO HELEN.[K]
July 7, 1839. Winthrop Mackworth Praed.—1802-1839
Footnote
LI. HORATIUS.[L]
A LAY MADE ABOUT THE YEAR OF THE CITY CCCLX. Lord Macaulay.—1800-1859
Footnote
LII. THE RAVEN
Edgar Allan Poe.—1809-1849
LIII. DAVID SWAN—A FANTASY
Nathaniel Hawthorne.—1804-1864. From "Twice-Told Tales."
LIV. MY KATE
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.—1809-1861
LV. A DEAD ROSE
Mrs. Browning
LVI. TO THE EVENING WIND
William Cullen Bryant.—1794-1878
LVII.—DEATH OF THE PROTECTOR.[M]
Thomas Carlyle.—1795-1881. From Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches
Footnote
LVIII. EACH AND ALL
Ralph Waldo Emerson.—1803-1882
LIX. WATERLOO
Charles James Lever.—1806-1872. From Charles O'Malley
LX. THE DIVER
Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton.—1805-1873. Translated from the German of Schiller
LXI. THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS
Cardinal Newman.—1801- From Callista
LXII. THE CANE-BOTTOM'D CHAIR
LXIII. THE RECONCILIATION.[N]
Thackeray
Footnote
LXIV. THE ISLAND OF THE SCOTS
(December, 1697.) William Edmondstoune Aytoun.—1813-1865
LXV. THE GAMBLING PARTY
Earl of Beaconsfield.—1805-1881. From The Young Duke
LXVI. THE PICKWICKIANS DISPORT THEMSELVES ON ICE.[O]
Charles Dickens.—1812-1870. From The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Footnote
LXVII. THE HANGING OF THE CRANE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.—1807-1882
LXVIII. EARTHWORMS
Charles Darwin—1809-1882. From The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the action of Worms
LXIX. "AS SHIPS, BECALMED AT EVE."
Arthur Hugh Clough.—1819-1861
LXX. DUTY
Arthur Hugh Clough
LXXI. SONNETS
Charles Heavysege.—1816-1876
LXXII. DOCTOR ARNOLD AT RUGBY
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley.—1815-1880
LXXIII. ODE TO THE NORTH-EAST WIND
Charles Kingsley.—1819-1875
LXXIV. FROM "THE MILL ON THE FLOSS."
George Eliot.—1820-1880
LXXV. THE CLOUD CONFINES
LXXVI. BARBARA FRIETCHIE
John Greenleaf Whittier.—1807-
LXXVII. CONTENTMENT
Oliver Wendell Holmes.—1809- "Man wants but little here below."
LXXVIII. THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION
The Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone.—1809- From Kin Beyond Sea
LXXIX. THE LORD OF BURLEIGH
Lord Tennyson.—1809-
LXXX. "BREAK, BREAK, BREAK."
Lord Tennyson
LXXXI. THE "REVENGE."
A BALLAD OF THE FLEET, 1591. Lord Tennyson
LXXXII. HERVÉ RIEL
Robert Browning.—1812-
LXXXIII. SONNET
President Wilson.—1816-
LXXXIV. OUR IDEAL
President Wilson
LXXXV. FROM THE APOLOGY OF SOCRATES
Benjamin Jowett.—1817- From The Dialogues of Plato
LXXXVI. THE EMPIRE OF THE CÆSARS
James Anthony Froude.—1818- From Cæsar
LXXXVII. OF THE MYSTERY OF LIFE
John Ruskin—1819- From Sesame and Lilies
LXXXVIII. THE ROBIN
James Russell Lowell.—1819- From My Garden Acquaintance
Footnote
LXXXIX. THE OLD CRADLE
Frederick Locker.—1821-
XC. RUGBY CHAPEL
November, 1857. Matthew Arnold.—1822-
XCI. IN THE ORILLIA WOODS
Charles Sangster.—1822-
XCII. MORALS AND CHARACTER IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Goldwin Smith.—1823- From Cowper
XCIII. A LIBERAL EDUCATION
Thomas Henry Huxley.—1825- From Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews
XCIV. TOO LATE
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.—1826-
XCV. AMOR MUNDI
Christina Georgina Rossetti.—1830-
XCVI. TOUJOURS AMOUR
Edmund Clarence Stedman.—1833-
XCVII. ENGLAND
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.—1836-
XCVIII. ROCOCO
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
XCIX. KINGS OF MEN
John Reade.—1837-
C. THALATTA! THALATTA!
John Reade
CI. THE FORSAKEN GARDEN
Algernon Charles Swinburne.—1837-
CII. A BALLAD TO QUEEN ELIZABETH OF THE SPANISH ARMADA
(Ballade.) Austin Dobson.—1840-
CIII. CIRCE
(Triolet.) Austin Dobson
CIV. SCENES FROM "TECUMSEH."[Q]
Charles Mair.—1840-
Footnote
CV. THE RETURN OF THE SWALLOWS
Edmund William Gosse.—1849-
CVI. DAWN ANGELS
A. Mary F. Robinson.—1856-
CVII. LE ROI EST MORT
A. Mary F. Robinson
CVIII. TO WINTER
Charles G. D. Roberts.—1859-
CIX. ABIGAIL BECKER
(Off Long Point Island, Lake Erie, November 24th, 1854.) Amanda T. Jones
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