Lectures on American Literature: With Remarks on Some Passages of American HistoryElam Bliss, 1829 - 300 sidor |
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... Boston , under the sanction of a name now connect- ed with the literature of our country , in its earlier and latter days ; as an antiquarian , Judge Davis has but few equals ; as a writer of taste and talent , no superiour among the ...
... Boston , under the sanction of a name now connect- ed with the literature of our country , in its earlier and latter days ; as an antiquarian , Judge Davis has but few equals ; as a writer of taste and talent , no superiour among the ...
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... Boston , " and in compliment to him , in the expectation of his coming from Boston , in Lincolnshire , did that ancient town in New - England receive its name . " Mr. Cot- ton was , until the time of his death , the chief of the ...
... Boston , " and in compliment to him , in the expectation of his coming from Boston , in Lincolnshire , did that ancient town in New - England receive its name . " Mr. Cot- ton was , until the time of his death , the chief of the ...
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... Boston and Cambridge , in 1635 , as successor to Hooker , who had left this vineyard abounding in labourers , and had set out , through the wilderness , to form a settlement on Connecticut river , at Hartford . Mr. Shephard was an ...
... Boston and Cambridge , in 1635 , as successor to Hooker , who had left this vineyard abounding in labourers , and had set out , through the wilderness , to form a settlement on Connecticut river , at Hartford . Mr. Shephard was an ...
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... Boston , March 26 , 1649 , was much given to experimental philosophy and medicine . " Several of his receipts are still used by that family in charity to the poor . Some of his pieces are to be found amongst the first philosophical ...
... Boston , March 26 , 1649 , was much given to experimental philosophy and medicine . " Several of his receipts are still used by that family in charity to the poor . Some of his pieces are to be found amongst the first philosophical ...
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... born at Dorchester , 1639 , and the son in Boston , in 1663. Their minds were in a great degree alike ; but the father had seen more of the world than the son , having been several times in England , and mixed much in society 58 LECTURES ...
... born at Dorchester , 1639 , and the son in Boston , in 1663. Their minds were in a great degree alike ; but the father had seen more of the world than the son , having been several times in England , and mixed much in society 58 LECTURES ...
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Lectures on American Literature, with remarks on some passages of American ... Samuel Lorenzo Knapp Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1829 |
Lectures on American Literature: With Remarks on Some Passages of American ... Samuel Lorenzo Knapp Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1829 |
Lectures on American Literature: With Remarks on Some Passages of American ... Samuel Lorenzo Knapp Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1829 |
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Sida 20 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove: But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No...
Sida 65 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Sida 210 - And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth ? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I, the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
Sida 18 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Sida 65 - In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true...
Sida 21 - Different minds Incline to different objects : one pursues The vast alone, the wonderful, the wild ; Another sighs for harmony, and grace, And gentlest beauty. Hence when lightning fires The arch of Heaven, and thunders rock the ground, When furious whirlwinds rend the howling air, And Ocean, groaning from...
Sida 18 - To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils, with infinite Manslaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory...
Sida 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the tenth day of August, AD 1829, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, JP Dabney, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit...
Sida 210 - And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people : and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
Sida 224 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
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