Hand-book of American literature, historical, biographical, and critical [by J. Gostwick. The title-leaf is a cancel].Kennikat Press, 1856 - 319 страници |
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... nature - of just and generous human nature , at least , which we hold the American to be - if the 1 E. P. Whipple , one of the writers in The North American Review . reader , who , bending over the instructive or affecting X AMERICAN ...
... nature - of just and generous human nature , at least , which we hold the American to be - if the 1 E. P. Whipple , one of the writers in The North American Review . reader , who , bending over the instructive or affecting X AMERICAN ...
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... nature - of just and generous human nature , at least , which we hold the American to be - if the 1 E. P. Whipple , one of the writers in The North American Review . reader , who , bending over the instructive or affecting X AMERICAN ...
... nature - of just and generous human nature , at least , which we hold the American to be - if the 1 E. P. Whipple , one of the writers in The North American Review . reader , who , bending over the instructive or affecting X AMERICAN ...
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... nature of intole- rance , and he , and he alone , had arrived at the great principle which is its sole effectual remedy . He announced his discovery under the simple proposition of the sanctity of conscience . The civil magistrate ...
... nature of intole- rance , and he , and he alone , had arrived at the great principle which is its sole effectual remedy . He announced his discovery under the simple proposition of the sanctity of conscience . The civil magistrate ...
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... nature to tempt them to go much further . ' Cotton Mather , regarded as a scholar and a writer , was the representative man of New England in the latter part of the seventeenth and early part of the eighteenth century . This assertion ...
... nature to tempt them to go much further . ' Cotton Mather , regarded as a scholar and a writer , was the representative man of New England in the latter part of the seventeenth and early part of the eighteenth century . This assertion ...
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... nature of witch- craft , ' and had especially examined a case occurring in the house of a neighbour . In this instance , the girl supposed to be ' troubled by witches ' uttered at least one true prediction ; for , speaking of Mather's ...
... nature of witch- craft , ' and had especially examined a case occurring in the house of a neighbour . In this instance , the girl supposed to be ' troubled by witches ' uttered at least one true prediction ; for , speaking of Mather's ...
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Страница 55 - 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.
Страница 94 - thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Страница 61 - She wore no funeral weeds for thee, Nor bade the dark hearse wave its plume, Like torn branch from death's leafless tree, In sorrow's pomp and pageantry. The heartless luxury of the tomb. But she remembers thee as one Long loved, and for a season gone. For thee her poet's lyre is wreathed, Her marble wrought, her music breathed; For thee she rings the birthday bells; Of thee her babes' first lisping tells; For thine her evening prayer is said At palace couch and cottage bed.
Страница 88 - IT was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Страница 56 - 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.
Страница 92 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Страница 137 - To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
Страница 78 - We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time.
Страница 139 - In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and...
Страница 69 - As when the Northern skies Gleam in December; And, like the water's flow Under December's snow, Came a dull voice of woe From the heart's chamber.