Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 388
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor mans heart through half the year. 28. In the mumming or acting of these maskers could be seentraces of the ancient mystic plays in which religious lessons weregiven in plays that were acted with the approval of the church. 29. Did the maskers have rich… … ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARDBy Thomas Gray Note.—A mournful song written to express grief atthe loss of some friend or relative, and at the same timeto praise the dead person, is known as an elegy. Some-times the word has a wider meaning, and includes a poemwhich expresses the same ideas…
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