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Title: Studies in English literature. Being typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ... with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study ..
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Swinton, William, 1833-1892 St. John, Cynthia Morgan, 1852-1919. fmo Wordsworth Collection
Subjects: English literature English literature
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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atchit! Relate in your ownwords the little drama between Scrooge and Bob Cratchit. 37 1 ^yS DICKENS. Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitelymore ; and to Tiny Tiin, who did not die, he was a second father. 98°He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good aman as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town,or borough in the good old world. Some people laughed to seethe alteration in him ; but his own heart laughed, and that wasquite enough for him. 985 He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived in thatrespect upon the Total-Abstinence Principle ever afterwards ;and it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christ-mas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May thatbe truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim ob-990served, God Bless Us, Every One ! Literary Analysis.—979-991. In these two paragraphs which words areof Anglo-Saxon, and which of classical, origin 1 XXXVIIL JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. 1819.
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VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL. (Introduction.—The following note was prefixed by Mr. Lowell to thefirst edition of the Vision of Sir Laimfal (Cambridge, 1848): According tothe mythology of the Romancers, the San Greal, or Holy Grail, was thecup out of which Jesus partook of the last supper with his disciples. Itwas brought into England by Joseph of Arimathea, and remained there, anobject of pilgrimage and adoration for many years, in the keeping of his 58o LOWELL. lineal descendants. It was incumbent upon those who had charge of it tobe chaste in thought, word, and deed; but one of the keepers having brokenthis condition, the Holy Grail disappeared. From that time it was a favoriteenterprise of the knights of Arthurs court to go in search of it. Sir Galahadwas at last successful in finding it, as may be read in the seventeenth book ofthe Romance of King Arthur. Tennyson has made Sir Galahad the subjectof one of the most exquisite of his poems.) / PRELUDE TO PART FIRST. /i. Over his keys the

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