Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
Three words of Horace may form an introduction to the following pages, the very words, which that amiable physician and poet, the late Dr. Cotton of St. Alban's, prefixed as a motto to his elegant and moral little volume of Visions in Verse:
"My glorious bird," exclaims the maid, Who her brave fav'rite survey'd, While she expir'd above: "I will not at thy lot repine, But rather pray it may be mine, To die with those...
3. Chapter 3"Can mothers of our English isle, The pride of all the earth, From any tribe of tender brutes, A mother's duly learn?" So to a shepherd of the Alps, A guest of noble birth, A tr...
1. Chapter 1Three words of Horace may form an introduction to the following pages, the very words, which that amiable physician and poet, the late Dr. Cotton of St. Alban's, prefixed as a m...
4. Chapter 4"Enough, good Heaven!" in transport now, In transport fondly wild, The stranger clasp'd the good old swain With tears of tender glee; "My father! yes!" he cried, "thy care Has s...