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Author McGuffey, William Holmes, 1800-1873.

Title McGuffey's sixth eclectic reader.

Imprint New York : John Wiley & Sons, [1997?], ©1921.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  372.4 M179m 1997    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition Revised edition.
Description 464 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series Eclectic educational series
Eclectic educational series.
Note Facsim. of: Rev. ed. New York : American Book Co., 1921.
Contents Introduction -- Articulation -- Inflection -- Accent and emphasis -- Instructions for reading verse -- The Voice -- Gesture.
Selections for reading : Anecdote of the Duke of Newcastle / Blackwood's Magazine -- The needle / Samuel Woodworth -- Dawn / Edward Everett -- Description of a storm / Benjamin Disraeli -- After the thunderstorm / James Thomson -- House cleaning / Francis Hopkinson -- Schemes of life often illusory / Samuel Johnson -- The brave old oak / Henry Fothergill Chorley -- The artist surprised -- Pictures of Memory / Alice Cary -- The morning oratorio / Wilson Flagg -- Short selections in poetry : The cloud / John Wilson -- My mind / William Byrd -- A good name / William Shakespeare -- Sunrise / James Thomson -- Old age and death / Edmund Waller -- Milton / John Dryden -- Death of Little Nell / Charles Dickens -- Vanity of life / Johann Gottfried von Herder -- A political pause / Charles James Fox -- My experience in elocution / John Neal -- Elegy in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray -- Tact and talent -- Speech before the Virginia Convention / Patrick Henry -- The American flag / Joseph Rodman Drake -- Ironical eulogy on debt -- The three warnings / Hester Lynch Thrale -- The memory of our fathers / Lyman Beecher.
Short selections in prose : Dryden and Pope / Samuel Johnson -- Las casas dissuading from battle / R.B. Sheridan -- Action and repose / John Ruskin -- Time and change / Sir Humphry Davy -- The poet / William Ellery Channing -- Mountains / William Howitt -- The jolly old pedagogue / George Arnold -- The teacher and sick scholar / Charles Dickens -- The snow shower / William Cullen Bryant -- Character of Napoleon Bonaparte / Charles Phillips -- Napoleon at rest / John Pierpont -- War / Charles Sumner -- Speech of Walpole in reproof of Mr. Pitt / Sir R. Walpole -- Pitt's reply to Sir Robert Walpole / William Pitt -- Character of Mr. Pitt / Henry Grattan -- The soldier's rest / Sir Walter Scott -- Henry V. to his troops / William Shakespeare -- Speech of Paul on Mars' Hill / Bible -- God is everywhere / Joseph Hutton -- Lafayette and Robert Raikes / Thomas S. Grimké -- Fall of Cardinal Wolsey / William Shakespeare -- The philosopher / John P. Kennedy -- Marmion and Douglas / Sir Walter Scott -- The present / Adelaide Anne Procter -- The baptism / John Wilson -- Sparrows / Adeline D. Train Whitney -- Observance of the Sabbath / Gardiner Spring -- God's goodness to such as fear him / Bible -- Character of Columbus / Washington Irving -- "He giveth his beloved sleep" / Elizabeth B. Browning -- Description of a siege / Sir Walter Scott -- Marco Bozzaris / Fitz-Greene Halleck -- Song of the Greek Bard / Lord George Gordon Byron -- North American Indians / Charles Sprague -- Lochiel's warning / Thomas Campbell -- On happiness of temper / Oliver Goldsmith -- The fortune teller / Henry Mackenzie -- Rienzi's address to the Romans / Mary Russell Mitford -- The Puritan fathers of New England / F.W.P. Greenwood -- Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers / Felicia Dorothea Hemans -- Necessity of education / Lyman Beecher -- Riding on a snow-plow / Benjamin Franklin Taylor -- The quarrel of Brutus and Cassius / William Shakespeare -- The quack / John Tobin -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Bill and Joe / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Sorrow for the dead / Washington Irving -- The eagle / James Gates Percival -- Political toleration / Thomas Jefferson -- What constitutes a state? / Sir William Jones -- The brave at home / Thomas Buchanan Read -- South Carolina / Robert Young Hayne -- Massachusetts and South Carolina / Daniel Webster -- The church scene from Evangeline / H.W. Longfellow -- Song of the shirt / Thomas Hood -- Diamond cut diamond / Édouard René Lefebvre-Laboulaye -- Thanatopsis / William Cullen Bryant -- Indian jugglers / William Hazlitt -- Antony over Caesar's dead body / William Shakespeare -- The English character / William Hickling Prescott -- The song of the potter / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- A hot day in New York / William Dean Howells -- Discontent: an allegory / Joseph Addison -- Jupiter and ten / James T. Fields -- Scene from "The poor gentleman" / George Colman -- My mother's picture / William Cowper -- Death of Samson / John Milton -- An evening adventure -- The barefoot boy / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The glove and the lions / James Henry Leigh Hunt -- The folly of intoxication / William Shakespeare -- Starved rock / Francis Parkman -- Prince Henry and Falstaff / William Shakespeare -- Studies / Sir Francis Bacon -- Surrender of Granada / Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton -- Hamlet's soliloquy / William Shakespeare.
Ginevra / Samuel Rogers -- Inventions and discoveries / John Caldwell Calhoun -- Enoch Arden at the window / Alfred Tennyson -- Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott -- Speech on the trial of a murderer / Daniel Webster -- The closing year / George Denison Prentice -- A new city in Colorado / Helen Hunt Jackson -- Importance of the union / Daniel Webster -- The influences of the sun / John Tyndall -- Colloquial powers of Franklin / William Wirt -- The dream of Clarence / William Shakespeare -- Homeward bound / Richard H. Dana, Jr. -- Impeachment of Warren Hastings / T.B. Macaulay -- Destruction of the Carnatic / Edmund Burke -- The raven / Edgar Allan Poe -- A view of the Colosseum / Orville Dewey -- The bridge / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Objects and limits of science / Robert Charles Winthrop -- The downfall of Poland / Thomas Campbell -- Labor / Horace Greeley -- The last days of Herculaneum / Edwin Atherstone -- How men reason / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Thunderstorm on the Alps / Lord Byron -- Origin of property / Sir William Blackstone -- Battle of Waterloo / Lord Byron -- "With brains, Sir" / John Brown -- The New England pastor / Timothy Dwight -- Death of Absalom / Bible -- Abraham Davenport / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The falls of Yosemite / Thomas Starr King -- A psalm of life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Franklin's entry into Philadelphia / Benjamin Franklin -- Lines to a waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant -- Goldsmith and Addison / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Immortality of the soul / Joseph Addison -- Character of Washington / Jared Sparks -- Eulogy on Washington / Henry Lee -- The solitary reaper / William Wordsworth -- Value of the present / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Happiness / Alexander Pope -- Marion / William Gilmore Simms -- A common thought / Henry Timrod -- A definite aim in reading / Noah Porter -- Ode to Mt. Blanc / Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Summary Since 1836, children have been delighted by these volumes filled with exotic adventures, exciting stories, beautiful poems, and funny fables. The Sixth Eclectic Reader includes selections from Patrick Henry, Sir Walter Scott, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and William Shakespeare.
Subject Readers.
Readers (Primary)
Readers. (OCoLC)fst01090554
Readers (Primary) (OCoLC)fst01090606
Added Title Sixth eclectic reader
ISBN 0471288934 (hc)
9780471288930 (hc)
0442235666 (hbk.)
9780442235666 (hbk.)

 
    
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