The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to KnowDiane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch Oxford University Press, 2006 - 486 pagini Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- Scarborough Fair -- Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) -- Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593) -- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) -- Greensleeves -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- John Donne (1572 - 1631) -- Ben Jonson (1573 - 1637) -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) -- King James Bible (1611) -- Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674) -- George Herbert (1593 - 1633) -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Barbara Allen -- John Milton (1608 - 1674) -- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667) -- The two brothers -- Richard Lovelace (1618-1657) -- Andrew Marvell (1621 - 1678) -- John Bunyan (1628-1688) -- Lord Randal -- John Dryden (1631 - 1700) -- John Locke (1632 - 1704) -- The girl i left behind me -- Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727) -- Our God, our help in ages past -- Joy to the world -- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) -- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) -- Rule, Brittania -- John Wesley (1703 - 1791) -- Jesus, lover of my soul -- William Pitt (1708 - 1778) -- Heart of Oak -- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) -- Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771) -- Adam Smith (1723 - 1790) -- God save the queen -- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) -- Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774) -- William Cowper (1731 - 1800) -- William Blake (1757 - 1827) -- Mary Wollstonecraft (1859 - 1897) -- Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) -- Auld lang syne -- William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833) -- Amazing Grace -- William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) -- Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) -- Walter Savage Landor (1775 - 1824) -- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830) -- Lord Byron (1788 - 1824) -- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) -- John Clare (1793 - 1864) -- Felicia Hemans (1793 - 1835) -- John Keats (1795 - 1821) -- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) -- Thomas Hood (1799-1845) -- John Henry Newman (1801 - 1890) -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861) -- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) -- Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883) -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892) -- Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) -- Edward Lear (1812 - 1888) -- Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) -- Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848) -- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) -- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888) -- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 - 1895) -- I know where I'm going -- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877) -- Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894) -- Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898) -- William Morris (1834 - 1896) -- Walter Pater (1839 - 1894) -- Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) -- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1843 - 1909) -- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889) -- W. E. Henley (1849 - 1903) -- The Major General's song -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) -- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) -- Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 - 1928) -- A. E. Houseman (1859 - 1936) -- David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945) -- There'll always be an England -- Roger Casement (1864 - 1916) -- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) -- William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) -- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) -- Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917) -- E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970) -- Virginia Woolf (1881 - 1941) -- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930) -- Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915) -- Keep the home fires burning -- T.S Eliot (1888 - 1965) -- Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918) -- George Orwell (1903 - 1950) -- W.H. Auden (1907-1973) -- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) -- Phillip Larkin (1922- 1985) -- Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965). |
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Pagina 78
... force enough to defend himself from injuries or punish delinquents . To avoid these inconveniencies which disorder men's properties in the state of Nature , men unite into societies that they may have the united strength of the whole ...
... force enough to defend himself from injuries or punish delinquents . To avoid these inconveniencies which disorder men's properties in the state of Nature , men unite into societies that they may have the united strength of the whole ...
Pagina 83
... force ; that operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the par- ticles upon which it acts ( as mechanical causes use to do ) , but according to the quantity , of the solid matter which they contain , and propagates its ...
... force ; that operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the par- ticles upon which it acts ( as mechanical causes use to do ) , but according to the quantity , of the solid matter which they contain , and propagates its ...
Pagina 469
... Force engaged the main strength of the German Air Force , and inflicted upon them losses of at least four to one ; and the Navy , using nearly 1,000 ships of all kinds , carried over 335,000 men , French and British , out of the jaws of ...
... Force engaged the main strength of the German Air Force , and inflicted upon them losses of at least four to one ; and the Navy , using nearly 1,000 ships of all kinds , carried over 335,000 men , French and British , out of the jaws of ...
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