American Literature ; an Historical Sketch, 1620-1880A. and C. Black, 1882 - 472 pages |
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... Persons of refinement in the States are over - refined : they talk like books , and everywhere obtrude their superior education . " Americans , on the other hand , are , for the most part , impossible to please . Ordinary men among them ...
... Persons of refinement in the States are over - refined : they talk like books , and everywhere obtrude their superior education . " Americans , on the other hand , are , for the most part , impossible to please . Ordinary men among them ...
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... person over again . " America has given birth to more than a fair proportion of eminent theologians , jurists , economists , and naturalists ; but , with the exception of Russia , no great modern country has , in the same number of ...
... person over again . " America has given birth to more than a fair proportion of eminent theologians , jurists , economists , and naturalists ; but , with the exception of Russia , no great modern country has , in the same number of ...
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... in both hemispheres is a pretext for the obtrusion of the critic's own crochets or person ; but " interviewing " is a 1 See Chapter IV . GOVERNMENT . 23 Transatlantic invention for intruding on the great 22 22 AMERICAN LITERATURE .
... in both hemispheres is a pretext for the obtrusion of the critic's own crochets or person ; but " interviewing " is a 1 See Chapter IV . GOVERNMENT . 23 Transatlantic invention for intruding on the great 22 22 AMERICAN LITERATURE .
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... person having exasperated the people , by leaving them unprotected against the Indian raids , they chose a chief for themselves , Nathaniel Bacon , who repelled the savages , but was arraigned as a rebel , and subsequently died with ...
... person having exasperated the people , by leaving them unprotected against the Indian raids , they chose a chief for themselves , Nathaniel Bacon , who repelled the savages , but was arraigned as a rebel , and subsequently died with ...
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... persons and functions of the two , with many of the preroga- tives of King , were combined . The Church being " free , " in the sense of controlling the Legislature , the mass of the people were intellectually , and in many respects ...
... persons and functions of the two , with many of the preroga- tives of King , were combined . The Church being " free , " in the sense of controlling the Legislature , the mass of the people were intellectually , and in many respects ...
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Page 188 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods — rivers that move * In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 80 - And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
Page 199 - Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say, "Peace !" Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies ! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.
Page 219 - IN THE greenest of our valleys, By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace — Radiant palace — reared its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion — It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair.
Page 247 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Page 301 - They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Page 239 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Page 213 - RECONCILIATION WORD over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost, That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin — I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.
Page 224 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 250 - This is the ship of pearl, which poets feign Sails the unshadowed main, The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings, In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.