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Title: Advanced reader
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Publisher: Toronto : Canada Publishing Company, Ltd.
Contributing Library: The University of Western Ontario, Western Archives
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even I were as in my boyhood, and could be The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven, As then, when to outstrip the skyey speed Scarce seemd a vision, I would neer have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. 0 lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! 1 fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed ! A heavy weight of hours has chaind and bowdOne too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud. Make me thy lyre, evn as the forest is : What if my leaves are falling like its own ! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou. Spirit fierce. My spirit! be thou me, impetuous one ! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like witherd leaves to quicken a new birth; And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguishd hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind ! Be through my lips to unawakend earth The trumpet of a prophecy ! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind ? —Percv ByssJic Shelley
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DICKENS. Biographical.—Charles Dickens was born on the 7th of February, 1S12,at Landport, Hampshire, where his father was a clerk in the Navy Depart-ment. On the conclusion of the war with Napoleon, the family removedto London, and thence to Chatham. After a second removal to London in1821, it gradually became impoverished, owing to the thriftless habits ofthe father. Improved circumstances, however, in the course of a few years,enabled Dickens to attend school for a short time. When fifteen he en-tered a lawyers office; but not liking its duties he learned the art ofreporting, and obtained employment in connection with the Law Courts.During this period he studied diligently, acquiring also by close observa- :tion that varied experience of life which proved invaluable to him after-wards. At nineteen he became parliamentary reporter for the True Sun,and subsequently tor the Morning Chronicle. Now, also, he added largelyto his knowledge of humanity, for during his leisure hours he wal

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