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POETIC TASK BOOK;

BEING A

CHOICE SELECTION OF PIECES,

CHIEFLY FROM THE

Modern British Poets;

SUITABLE TO BE COMMITTED TO MEMORY BY YOUTH OF

BOTH SEXES, IN SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES.

BY JOSEPH GUY, JUN.

OF MAGDALEN HALL, OXFord,

Author of the "English School Grammar;" "New Exercises in Orthography;"
"New Arithmetical Plan;"

"New Exercises in English Syntax;" "Outlines to Walker's Themes and Essays;"
"Geographia Antiqua, or School Treatise on Ancient Geography;"
"An Improvement on the Eton Latin Grammar;"
"Geography for Young Children," &c.

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LONDON:

CRADOCK & CO. 48, PATERNOSTER ROW
1849.

Price One Shilling, bound.

PREFACE.

It is the proper and laudable custom in most schools, whether of boys or girls, to give to the pupils, at least once a week, a poetic task, to be committed by them to memory.

The choice is sometimes difficult; and if it be made from the "Speaker," or any other expensive work, the injury done to those books by the learner in a few hours, is greater than would be many months' use of them for reading in only. On this account, a cheap manual of sterling poetry, to be used principally as a Poetic Task Book, has hitherto been a desideratum in our schools; which it is hoped this new school-book will supply.

The following Selection contains many blossoms of native genius, most of them of recent growth, that are well worthy to be transferred to memory by British youth; and which, to the latest period of life, may afford a pleasing reminiscence. Some effusions of the American poets have also contributed to enrich the collection.

It is to be regretted that the names of the writers cannot in every instance be ascertained; but sometimes only their initials are given; and when these are wanted, the word anonymous or its abbreviation anon. will be supplied.

July, 1849.

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