A History of American LiteratureGinn, 1919 - 513 Seiten |
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९९ Aldrich American Literature American Poetry Anne Bradstreet Atlantic beauty Biography and Criticism BOOK LIST Boston Bret Harte Bryant Cambridge History century chap character Concord Cooper death drama early edited editor Emerson England English essay fact father feeling fiction Franklin Freneau friends Gilder Hawthorne Henry History of American Holmes Howells human interest Irving James Joaquin Miller John journal Lanier later Letters Library of American literary lived Longfellow Lowell Magazine Mark Twain mind modern monthly nature novels originally as follows passages Paul Hamilton Hayne period Philip Freneau play Poe's poems poet poetic prose published Puritan Ralph Waldo Emerson Read reader romance Samuel Sewall satire song spirit STEDMAN and HUTCHINSON story theater things Thomas Bailey Aldrich Thoreau thought tion TOPICS AND PROBLEMS verse volume Walt Whitman Washington Irving Whittier William writing written wrote York young youth
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Seite 206 - A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.
Seite 52 - ... our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.
Seite 165 - 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.
Seite 167 - To catch thy gaze, and uttering graceful words To charm thy ear; while his sly imps, by stealth, Twine round thee threads of steel, light thread on thread That grow to fetters; or bind down thy arms With chains concealed in chaplets. Oh ! not yet Mayst thou unbrace thy corslet, nor lay by Thy sword ; nor yet, O Freedom ! close thy lids In slumber ; for thine enemy never sleeps, And thou must watch and combat till the day Of the new earth and heaven.
Seite 148 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Seite 205 - If it were only for a vocabulary, the scholar would be covetous of action. Life is our dictionary. Years are well spent in country labors ; in town, — in the insight into trades and manufactures ; in frank intercourse with many men and women ; in science ; in art ; to the one end of mastering in all their facts a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
Seite 366 - Have the elder races halted? Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas? We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson, Pioneers! O pioneers!
Seite 358 - Oh, what is abroad in the marsh and the terminal sea ? Somehow my soul seems suddenly free From the weighing of fate and the sad discussion of sin, By the length and the breadth and the sweep of the marshes of Glynn.
Seite 358 - As the marsh-hen secretly builds on the watery sod, Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God: I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies: By so many roots as the marsh-grass sends in the sod I will heartily lay me a-hold on the greatness of God...
Seite 376 - Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me, My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it. For it the nebula cohered to an orb, The long slow strata piled to rest it on, Vast vegetables gave it sustenance, Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care. \ All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.
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