Studies in English literatureBeing 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 .. . in thy wildness a grand freedom of character find. So with irregular outline tower up the sky-piercing oer yawning chasms lofty precipitous steeps;Spreading oer ledges unclimbable, meadows and slopes of green smoothness;Bearing the flowers in their clefts, losing their peaks in the clouds. 13. Therefore it is that I praise thee and never can cease from re- jo

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Studies in English literatureBeing 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 .. . in thy wildness a grand freedom of character find. So with irregular outline tower up the sky-piercing oer yawning chasms lofty precipitous steeps;Spreading oer ledges unclimbable, meadows and slopes of green smoothness;Bearing the flowers in their clefts, losing their peaks in the clouds. 13. Therefore it is that I praise thee and never can cease from re- joicing,Thinking that good stout English is mine and my ancestorstongue; DEFINITIONS. xxxiii Give me its varying music, the flow of its free modulation,I will not covet the full roll of the glorious Greek,Luscious and feeble Italian, Latin so formal and stately,French with its nasal lisp, nor German inverted and harsh,Not while our organ can speak with its many and wonderful on the soft flute of love, blow the loud trumpet of war,Sing with the high sesquialtro, or, drawing its full diapason,Shake all the air with the grand storm of its petials and stops. W. W. Story. I. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE;

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