Essays of American Essayists: Including Biographical and Critical Sketches, with a Special Introduction by Chauncey C. StarkweatherColonial Press, 1900 - 456 sidor |
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... writer to speak of Whitman . In the first place , it seems to him something like praising Shake- speare , which appears not altogether a novel thing to do . And in the second place , he realizes that the " Whitman cult " is somewhat in ...
... writer to speak of Whitman . In the first place , it seems to him something like praising Shake- speare , which appears not altogether a novel thing to do . And in the second place , he realizes that the " Whitman cult " is somewhat in ...
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... write to give relief to full , earnest souls ; and these works must not be skimmed over for amusement , but read with fixed attention and a reverential love of truth . In selecting books we may be aided much by those who have studied ...
... write to give relief to full , earnest souls ; and these works must not be skimmed over for amusement , but read with fixed attention and a reverential love of truth . In selecting books we may be aided much by those who have studied ...
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... writer of genius , to a profounder comprehension of his grand , beautiful , touching conceptions , than can be effected by the reading of the closet . No commentary throws such a light on a great poem or any impassioned work of ...
... writer of genius , to a profounder comprehension of his grand , beautiful , touching conceptions , than can be effected by the reading of the closet . No commentary throws such a light on a great poem or any impassioned work of ...
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... writer to arouse the interest of Englishmen , or , as Thackeray's graceful phrase puts it , " the first ambassador whom the New World of Letters sent to the Old . " Irving was not a versatile writer . He wrote no poetry . His essay on ...
... writer to arouse the interest of Englishmen , or , as Thackeray's graceful phrase puts it , " the first ambassador whom the New World of Letters sent to the Old . " Irving was not a versatile writer . He wrote no poetry . His essay on ...
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... write for pos- terity : but posterity never inquires after his labors . What of Henry of Huntingdon , who , besides a learned history of Eng- land , wrote a treatise on the contempt of the world , which the world has revenged by ...
... write for pos- terity : but posterity never inquires after his labors . What of Henry of Huntingdon , who , besides a learned history of Eng- land , wrote a treatise on the contempt of the world , which the world has revenged by ...
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Sida 9 - Things, for they may all be blasted without the Blessing of Heaven; and therefore, ask that Blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember, Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
Sida 37 - God be thanked for books ! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
Sida 224 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Sida 170 - Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought.
Sida 224 - Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes; With everything that pretty bin : My lady sweet, arise! Arise! arise!
Sida 8 - When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Sida 225 - But who the melodies of morn can tell ? — The wild brook babbling down the mountain side ; The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley ; echoing far and wide, The clamorous horn along the cliffs above ; The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide ; The hum of bees ; the linnet's lay of love ; And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.
Sida 264 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, 'Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore — Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Sida 112 - I cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
Sida 248 - I am somewhat too fond of these great mercies, but also because I should have often brought to my mind the many hardships, miseries, and wants, that my poor family was like to meet with, should I be taken from them, especially my poor blind child, who lay nearer my heart than all beside. Oh ! the thoughts of the hardship I thought my poor blind one might go under, would break my heart to pieces.