The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
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The Ontario Readers.
THE
HIGH SCHOOL READER.
AUTHORIZED FOR USE IN THE PUBLIC AND HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGIATE INSTITUTES OF ONTARIO BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
Toronto:
ROSE PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1886.
PRINTED AND BOUND BY Hunter, Rose & Co., TORONTO.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
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.
FOOTNOTES:
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.
John Dryden.—1631-1700.
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.
FOOTNOTES:
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.
FOOTNOTES:
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.
FOOTNOTES:
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.
FOOTNOTES:
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.
FOOTNOTES:
XXVIII. THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT.[H]
Robert Burns.—1759-1796.
FOOTNOTES:
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.
FOOTNOTES:
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.
FOOTNOTES:
L. TO HELEN.[K]
July 7, 1839.
Winthrop Mackworth Praed.—1802-1839.
FOOTNOTES:
LI. HORATIUS.[L]
A LAY MADE ABOUT THE YEAR OF THE CITY CCCLX.
Lord Macaulay.—1800-1859.
FOOTNOTES:
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.
FOOTNOTES:
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.
William Makepeace Thackeray.—1811-1863.
LXIII. THE RECONCILIATION.[N]
Thackeray.
FOOTNOTES:
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.
FOOTNOTES:
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.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti.—1828-1882.
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.
FOOTNOTES:
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-
FOOTNOTES:
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.
THE END.
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