The Cyr Readers: Book 8 Arranged by grades

Cyr

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Cyr · 13 chapters

Quotes from this book

• he would write his books as his father built his houses, so that they would last.

• He was not afraid of the world.

Chapters

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• PREFACE.Sample
• A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR. THOMAS CARLYLE.
• A SCENE FROM WILLIAM TELL. SHERIDAN KNOWLES.
• ADDRESS TO THE SURVIVORS OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. DANIEL WEBSTER.
• RECESSIONAL. A Victorian Ode. RUDYARD KIPLING.
• WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT.
• STORMING THE FORTRESS. WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT.
• A COUNTRY SUNDAY. Joseph Addison.
• THE KING OF GLORY.
• THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. [Abridged.] EDWARD EVERETT HALE.
• LOVE OF COUNTRY. SIR WALTER SCOTT.
• THE HEROINE OF NANCY.
• HUMANITY. WILLIAM COWPER.
• AN ICEBERG. RICHARD H. DANA, Jr.
• JOHN MILTON.
• DEATH OF SAMSON. JOHN MILTON. Scene—In Gaza.
• MAY MORNING. JOHN MILTON.
• ON HIS BLINDNESS. JOHN MILTON.
• A CHEERFUL SPIRIT. SIR JOHN LUBBOCK.
• THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW.
• THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD. THEODORE O’HARA.
• ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THOMAS GRAY.
• BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST.
• THE BATTLE OF QUEBEC. FRANCIS PARKMAN.
• THE STARLING. LAURENCE STERNE.
• THE BELFRY PIGEON. NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS.
• LADY UNA AND THE LION. EDMUND SPENSER.
• PURITY OF CHARACTER.
• DELIGHTS OF READING. SIR JOHN LUBBOCK.
• BREAK, BREAK, BREAK. ALFRED TENNYSON.
• WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
• THE THREE CASKETS. [Abridged.] WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
• QUOTATIONS FROM SHAKESPEARE.
• SHAKESPEARE’S POETRY. FRANCIS JEFFREY.
• HOME. HENRY W. GRADY.
• A PALACE IN A VALLEY. DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON.
• TRUE HEROISM.
• THE PEN. EDWARD BULWER LYTTON.
• CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON. GEORGE BANCROFT.
• NATIONAL HYMN. SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH.
• THE LARK IN THE GOLD-FIELDS. CHARLES READE.
• Part I.
• Part II.
• SWEET HOME. JOHN HOWARD PAYNE.
• ANTONY’S ADDRESS TO THE ROMANS. SHAKESPEARE.
• THE TWO ROADS. JEAN PAUL RICHTER.
• NAPOLEON’S GREATNESS. WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING.
• THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR. [Abridged.] ROBERT SOUTHEY.
• THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
• A PICNIC BY THE BALTIC. [Abridged.]
• NATURE. RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
• I.
• II.
• A GOOD DAUGHTER. JOHN GORHAM PALFREY.
• THE SPIRIT OF THE AIR. [Abridged.] JOHN RUSKIN.
• Book IV.
• JOAN OF ARC. [Abridged.] THOMAS DE QUINCEY.
• I. VOWELS.
• III. CONSONANTS.
• WORD LIST.
• Proper Names.