The Cambridge History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. IIWilliam Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921 |
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... experience was ended abruptly by the out- break of the Civil War and the closing of the river . His brief and inglorious part in the ensuing conflict he has described , with decorations , in his Private History of a Campaign that Failed ...
... experience was ended abruptly by the out- break of the Civil War and the closing of the river . His brief and inglorious part in the ensuing conflict he has described , with decorations , in his Private History of a Campaign that Failed ...
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... experience and mellow recollection but from an ex- pedition to Europe deliberately undertaken in order to escape from the growing harassment of business responsibilities and to collect material for a book . Before he could work himself ...
... experience and mellow recollection but from an ex- pedition to Europe deliberately undertaken in order to escape from the growing harassment of business responsibilities and to collect material for a book . Before he could work himself ...
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... experience and imaginative apprehension . The latter part of the book , which might have been called " The Mississippi Revisited , " is the journalistic record of an excursion made with a stenographer in 1882 ; it contains interesting.
... experience and imaginative apprehension . The latter part of the book , which might have been called " The Mississippi Revisited , " is the journalistic record of an excursion made with a stenographer in 1882 ; it contains interesting.
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... experienced , he believes , nothing so satisfying to his inmost sense as his life in that epical calling with its manly rigours , its robust hilarity , its deep , wholesome , unreflective happiness . The spirit that , years before ...
... experienced , he believes , nothing so satisfying to his inmost sense as his life in that epical calling with its manly rigours , its robust hilarity , its deep , wholesome , unreflective happiness . The spirit that , years before ...
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... experience , vitality of utterance ; its defect , crudity , meanness , insensitiveness to fineness of feeling and beauty of expression . Where the poets are many and all are minor it is difficult to make a choice , but on the whole it ...
... experience , vitality of utterance ; its defect , crudity , meanness , insensitiveness to fineness of feeling and beauty of expression . Where the poets are many and all are minor it is difficult to make a choice , but on the whole it ...
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Page 392 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 334 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 371 - I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell ; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible ; I must die or be better, it appears to me.
Page 33 - MR. HIGGINSON, — Are you too deeply occupied to say if my verse is alive? The mind is so near itself it cannot see distinctly, and I have none to ask.
Page 373 - The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.
Page 383 - We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 364 - The man who is employed for wages is as much a business man as his employer; the attorney in a country town is as much a business man as the corporation counsel in a great metropolis; the merchant at the crossroads store is as much a business man as the merchant of New York...
Page 373 - In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect his purpose. I am almost ready to say that this is probably true; that God wills this contest, and wills that it shall not end yet.
Page 388 - It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues...
Page 386 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!