The Cyr Readers: Book 8 / Arranged by grades
by Ellen M. Cyr
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Chapters (314)
- THE Cyr Readers
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR. THOMAS CARLYLE.
- A SCENE FROM WILLIAM TELL. SHERIDAN KNOWLES.
- ADDRESS TO THE SURVIVORS OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. DANIEL WEBSTER.
- THE AMERICAN UNION. 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.
- THE LARK IN THE GOLD-FIELDS. CHARLES READE. 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.
- TWO EXTRACTS FROM “HENRY ESMOND.” WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. For a sketch of the life of Thackeray, see Book VI, page 28.
- I.
- II.
- A GOOD DAUGHTER. JOHN GORHAM PALFREY.
- THE SPIRIT OF THE AIR. [Abridged.] JOHN RUSKIN.
- THANATOPSIS. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. For an account of Bryant’s life see Book IV.
- JOAN OF ARC. [Abridged.] THOMAS DE QUINCEY.
- GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION.
- I. VOWELS.
- II. EQUIVALENTS.
- III. CONSONANTS.
- WORD LIST.
- Proper Names.
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