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McGuffey's sixth eclectic reader.
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.
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- ISBN: 0471288934
- ISBN: 9780471288930
- ISBN: 0442235666
- ISBN: 9780442235666
- Physical Description: 464 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
- Edition: Rev. ed.
- Publisher: New York : John Wiley & Sons, [1997?], ©1921.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Facsim. of: Rev. ed. New York : American Book Co., 1921.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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.
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| 246 | 3 | 0. | ‡aSixth eclectic reader |
| 250 | . | ‡aRev. ed. | |
| 260 | . | ‡aNew York : ‡bJohn Wiley & Sons, ‡c[1997?], ©1921. | |
| 300 | . | ‡a464 pages : ‡billustrations ; ‡c19 cm. | |
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| 490 | 1 | . | ‡aEclectic educational series |
| 500 | . | ‡aFacsim. of: Rev. ed. New York : American Book Co., 1921. | |
| 505 | 0 | . | ‡aIntroduction -- Articulation -- Inflection -- Accent and emphasis -- Instructions for reading verse -- The Voice -- Gesture. |
| 505 | 0 | 0. | ‡gSelections for reading : ‡tAnecdote of the Duke of Newcastle / ‡rBlackwood's Magazine -- ‡tThe needle / ‡rSamuel Woodworth -- ‡tDawn / ‡rEdward Everett -- ‡tDescription of a storm / ‡rBenjamin Disraeli -- ‡tAfter the thunderstorm / ‡rJames Thomson -- ‡tHouse cleaning / ‡rFrancis Hopkinson -- ‡tSchemes of life often illusory / ‡rSamuel Johnson -- ‡tThe brave old oak / ‡rHenry Fothergill Chorley -- ‡tThe artist surprised -- ‡tPictures of Memory / ‡rAlice Cary -- ‡tThe morning oratorio / ‡rWilson Flagg -- ‡gShort selections in poetry : ‡tThe cloud / ‡rJohn Wilson -- ‡tMy mind / ‡rWilliam Byrd -- ‡tA good name / ‡rWilliam Shakespeare -- ‡tSunrise / ‡rJames Thomson -- ‡tOld age and death / ‡rEdmund Waller -- ‡tMilton / ‡rJohn Dryden -- ‡tDeath of Little Nell / ‡rCharles Dickens -- ‡tVanity of life / ‡rJohann Gottfried von Herder -- ‡tA political pause / ‡rCharles James Fox -- ‡tMy experience in elocution / ‡rJohn Neal -- ‡tElegy in a country churchyard / ‡rThomas Gray -- ‡tTact and talent -- ‡tSpeech before the Virginia Convention / ‡rPatrick Henry -- ‡tThe American flag / ‡rJoseph Rodman Drake -- ‡tIronical eulogy on debt -- ‡tThe three warnings / ‡rHester Lynch Thrale -- ‡tThe memory of our fathers / ‡rLyman Beecher. |
| 505 | 0 | 0. | ‡gShort selections in prose : ‡tDryden and Pope / ‡rSamuel Johnson -- ‡tLas casas dissuading from battle / ‡rR.B. Sheridan -- ‡tAction and repose / ‡rJohn Ruskin -- ‡tTime and change / ‡rSir Humphry Davy -- ‡tThe poet / ‡rWilliam Ellery Channing -- ‡tMountains / ‡rWilliam Howitt -- ‡tThe jolly old pedagogue / ‡rGeorge Arnold -- ‡tThe teacher and sick scholar / ‡rCharles Dickens -- ‡tThe snow shower / ‡rWilliam Cullen Bryant -- ‡tCharacter of Napoleon Bonaparte / ‡rCharles Phillips -- ‡tNapoleon at rest / ‡rJohn Pierpont -- ‡tWar / ‡rCharles Sumner -- ‡tSpeech of Walpole in reproof of Mr. Pitt / ‡rSir R. Walpole -- ‡tPitt's reply to Sir Robert Walpole / ‡rWilliam Pitt -- ‡tCharacter of Mr. Pitt / ‡rHenry Grattan -- ‡tThe soldier's rest / ‡rSir Walter Scott -- ‡tHenry V. to his troops / ‡rWilliam Shakespeare -- ‡tSpeech of Paul on Mars' Hill / ‡rBible -- ‡tGod is everywhere / ‡rJoseph Hutton -- ‡tLafayette and Robert Raikes / ‡rThomas S. Grimké -- ‡tFall of Cardinal Wolsey / ‡rWilliam Shakespeare -- ‡tThe philosopher / ‡rJohn P. Kennedy -- ‡tMarmion and Douglas / ‡rSir Walter Scott -- ‡tThe present / ‡rAdelaide Anne Procter -- ‡tThe baptism / ‡rJohn Wilson -- ‡tSparrows / ‡rAdeline D. Train Whitney -- ‡tObservance of the Sabbath / ‡rGardiner Spring -- ‡tGod's goodness to such as fear him / ‡rBible -- ‡tCharacter of Columbus / ‡rWashington Irving -- ‡t"He giveth his beloved sleep" / ‡rElizabeth B. Browning -- ‡tDescription of a siege / ‡rSir Walter Scott -- ‡tMarco Bozzaris / ‡rFitz-Greene Halleck -- ‡tSong of the Greek Bard / ‡rLord George Gordon Byron -- ‡tNorth American Indians / ‡rCharles Sprague -- ‡tLochiel's warning / ‡rThomas Campbell -- ‡tOn happiness of temper / ‡rOliver Goldsmith -- ‡tThe fortune teller / ‡rHenry Mackenzie -- ‡tRienzi's address to the Romans / ‡rMary Russell Mitford -- ‡tThe Puritan fathers of New England / ‡rF.W.P. Greenwood -- ‡tLanding of the Pilgrim Fathers / ‡rFelicia Dorothea Hemans -- ‡tNecessity of education / ‡rLyman Beecher -- ‡tRiding on a snow-plow / ‡rBenjamin Franklin Taylor -- ‡tThe quarrel of Brutus and Cassius / ‡rWilliam Shakespeare -- ‡tThe quack / ‡rJohn Tobin -- ‡tRip Van Winkle / ‡rWashington Irving -- ‡tBill and Joe / ‡rOliver Wendell Holmes -- ‡tSorrow for the dead / ‡rWashington Irving -- ‡tThe eagle / ‡rJames Gates Percival -- ‡tPolitical toleration / ‡rThomas Jefferson -- ‡tWhat constitutes a state? / ‡rSir William Jones -- ‡tThe brave at home / ‡rThomas Buchanan Read -- ‡tSouth Carolina / ‡rRobert Young Hayne -- ‡tMassachusetts and South Carolina / ‡rDaniel Webster -- ‡tThe church scene from Evangeline / ‡rH.W. Longfellow -- ‡tSong of the shirt / ‡rThomas Hood -- ‡tDiamond cut diamond / ‡rÉdouard René Lefebvre-Laboulaye -- ‡tThanatopsis / ‡rWilliam Cullen Bryant -- ‡tIndian jugglers / ‡rWilliam Hazlitt -- ‡tAntony over Caesar's dead body / ‡rWilliam Shakespeare -- ‡tThe English character / ‡rWilliam Hickling Prescott -- ‡tThe song of the potter / ‡rHenry Wadsworth Longfellow -- ‡tA hot day in New York / ‡rWilliam Dean Howells -- ‡tDiscontent: an allegory / ‡rJoseph Addison -- ‡tJupiter and ten / ‡rJames T. Fields -- ‡tScene from "The poor gentleman" / ‡rGeorge Colman -- ‡tMy mother's picture / ‡rWilliam Cowper -- ‡tDeath of Samson / ‡rJohn Milton -- ‡tAn evening adventure -- ‡tThe barefoot boy / ‡rJohn Greenleaf Whittier -- ‡tThe glove and the lions / ‡rJames Henry Leigh Hunt -- ‡tThe folly of intoxication / ‡rWilliam Shakespeare -- ‡tStarved rock / ‡rFrancis Parkman -- ‡tPrince Henry and Falstaff / ‡rWilliam Shakespeare -- ‡tStudies / ‡rSir Francis Bacon -- ‡tSurrender of Granada / ‡rSir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton -- ‡tHamlet's soliloquy / ‡rWilliam Shakespeare. |
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