McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

Author:William Holmes McGuffey
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: American Book Co.
Published: 1879-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

LXn. HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE.

William Collins (&. 1720 d. 1756) was born at Chichester, England. He was educated at Winchester and Oxford. About 1744, he went to London as a literary adventurer, and there won the esteem of. Dr. Johnson. His " Odes" were published in 1746, but were not popular. He was subsequently relieved from pecuniary embarrassment by a legacy of £2,000 from a maternal uncle; but he soon became partially Insane, and was for some time confined in an asylum for lunatics. He afterwards retired to Chichester, where he was cared for by his sister until his death.

1. How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blessed! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mold; She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.

2. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes a pilgrim gray,

To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repau* To dwell a weeping hermit there!

LXm. THE RAINBOW.

John Eeble (&. 1792, d, 1866) was bom near Fairfax, Gloucestershire, England. He graduated at Oxford with remarkably high honors, and afterwards was appointed to the professorship of Poetry in that university. Since his death, Keble College, at Oxford, has been erected to • his memory. In 1835, he became vicar of Hursley and rector of Otter-bourne, and held these Iwings until his death. His most fomous work is " The Christian Year," a collection of sacred poems.

1. A FRAGMENT of a rainbow bright Through the moist air I see, All dark and damp on yonder height, All bright and clear to me.

2. An hour ago the storm was here,

The gleam was far behind; So will our joys and grief appear, When earth hath ceased to blind.

3. Grief will be joy if on its edge

Fall soft that holiest ray, Joy will be grief if no faint pledge Be there of heavenly day.

LXIV. SUPPOSED SPEECH OP JOHN ADAMS.

Daniel Webster (6. 1782, d. 1852) was born in Salisbury, N. H. He spent a few months of his boyhood at Phillips Academy, Exeter, but fitted for college under Rev. Samuel Wood, of Boscawen, N. H. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1801. He taught school several terms, during and after his college course. In 1805, he was admitted to the bar in Boston, and practiced law in New Hampshire for the succeeding eleven years. In 1812, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives. In 1816, he removed to Boston, and in 1827 was elected to the United States Senate, which position he held for twelve years. In 1841, he was appointed Secretary of State. He returned to the Senate in 1845. In 1850, he was re-appointed Secretary of State, and continued in ofilce until his death. He died at his residence, in Marshfield, Mass. Mr. Webster's fame rests chiefly on his state papers and speeches. As a speaker he was dignified and stately, using clear, pure English.

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