Masterpieces of American Literature: Franklin, Irving, Bryant, Webster, Everett, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Whittier, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Thoreau, Poe, O'Reilly : with Biographical Sketches and PortraitsJohn Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler Houghton Mifflin, 1891 - 504 pages |
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... door work to do ; so that though his patri- monial estate had dwindled away under his manage- ment , acre by acre , until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes , yet it was the worst - conditioned farm ...
... door work to do ; so that though his patri- monial estate had dwindled away under his manage- ment , acre by acre , until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes , yet it was the worst - conditioned farm ...
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... door with yelping precipitation . Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age , and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use ...
... door with yelping precipitation . Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age , and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use ...
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... door of which he took his seat from morning till night , just moving suf- ficiently to avoid the sun and keep in the shade of a large tree ; so that the neighbors could tell the hour by his movements as accurately as by a sun - dial ...
... door of which he took his seat from morning till night , just moving suf- ficiently to avoid the sun and keep in the shade of a large tree ; so that the neighbors could tell the hour by his movements as accurately as by a sun - dial ...
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... doors -strange faces at the windows , everything was strange . His mind now misgave him ; he began to doubt whether both he and the world around him were not bewitched . Surely this was his native vil- lage , which he had left but the ...
... doors -strange faces at the windows , everything was strange . His mind now misgave him ; he began to doubt whether both he and the world around him were not bewitched . Surely this was his native vil- lage , which he had left but the ...
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... door was painted , " The Union Hotel , by Jonathan Doolittle . " Instead of the great tree that used to shelter the quiet little Dutch inn of yore , there now was reared a tall naked pole , with something on the top that looked like a ...
... door was painted , " The Union Hotel , by Jonathan Doolittle . " Instead of the great tree that used to shelter the quiet little Dutch inn of yore , there now was reared a tall naked pole , with something on the top that looked like a ...
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Page 272 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Page 37 - To him who in the love of Nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
Page 38 - All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Page 39 - Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His...
Page 83 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil. Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 229 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Page 274 - We sit in the warm shade and feel right well How the sap creeps up and the blossoms swell; We may shut our eyes, but we cannot help knowing That skies are clear and grass is growing; The breeze comes whispering in our ear That dandelions are blossoming near, That maize has sprouted, that streams are flowing. That the river is bluer than the sky, That the robin is plastering his house hard by...
Page 11 - It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble.
Page 38 - To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share and treads upon : the oak Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mould.
Page 10 - Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity; for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation, and a curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.