Identifier: c2advancedreader00toro (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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in,While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy !Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain,— 6° To thy high requiem become a sod. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird iNo hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heardIn ancient days by emperor and clown: 65 Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through tha sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for nomShe stood iii tears amid the alien corn ; The same that oft-times hathCharmd magic casements, opening on the foam 70 Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf.75 Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now tis buried deepIn the next valley-glades : Was it a vision, or a waking dream ?80 Fled is that music :—do i wake, or sleep ? —John Kcai.i
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THACKERAY. Biographical.—William Makepeace Thackeray was born on the iSth ofJuly, 1811, at Calcutta, where his father held an important position in theCivil Service of the East India Company. When quite a child he wassent to England, and soon after his arrival entered Charterhouse School.Thence he passed to Trinity College, Cambridge, leaving, however, in 51830, without taking a degree. We know little of his doings at the Uni-versity, unless it be the fact that he there commenced the literary work ofhis life, by writing some burlesque verses for The Snob, a periodical triflebrought out at Cambridge. At first he chose the profession of an artist,and travelled in Germany, France, and Italy, studying the works of the 1°great painters, and acquiring some skill in drawing, which he afterwardsturned to good service in the illustration of his books. Dickens has toldus that he first met Thackeray in 1835, when the young artist made anunsuccessful proposition to become the illustrator of th

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