American Literature: A Text-book for the Use of Schools and CollegesHeath, 1891 - 323 Seiten |
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Alexander Hamilton American literature appeared artistic Atlantic Monthly beauty born Bret Harte Bryant called century character charm Cotton Mather criticism death Emerson England English essays expression eyes feeling fiction Franklin friends genius grace hand Hawthorne heart humor humorist imagination Indian intellect Irving James John later less literary lived Longfellow Lowell magazine Margaret Fuller ment mind moral N. P. Willis narrative Nathaniel Hawthorne never novelist novels o'er original passion patriotism period philosophy Poe's poems poet poetic poetry political popular productions prose published Puritan R. H. Dana reader romance seems sentiment Sir Launfal slavery soul spirit stories strong style success sweet temperament thee things thou thought tion touch truth Uncle Remus Uncle Tom's Cabin vein verse voice volume Webster William words writings written wrote
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Seite 142 - And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Seite 184 - With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold...
Seite 93 - There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair...
Seite 53 - Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely — flowers, And the shadow of thy perfect bliss Is the sunshine of ours. If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath dwelt, and he where I, He might not sing so wildly well A mortal melody, While a bolder note than this might swell 50 From my lyre within the sky.
Seite 93 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Seite 93 - TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Seite 31 - ... by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Seite 110 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.
Seite 170 - Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead! Then the wife of the skipper lost at sea Said, "God has touched him!— why should we?
Seite 141 - Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! Her deck, once red with heroes...