Lectures on American Literature: With Remarks on Some Passages of American HistoryElam Bliss, 1829 - 300 sidor |
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... fame The glorious record of his virtues write , And hold it up to men , and bid them claim A palm like his , and catch from him the hallowed flame . " " The freshness of that past shall still Sacred to memory's holiest musings be ...
... fame The glorious record of his virtues write , And hold it up to men , and bid them claim A palm like his , and catch from him the hallowed flame . " " The freshness of that past shall still Sacred to memory's holiest musings be ...
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... fame The glorious record of his virtues write , And hold it up to men , and bid them claim A palm like his , and catch from him the hallowed flame . " " The freshness of that past shall still Sacred to memory's holiest musings be ...
... fame The glorious record of his virtues write , And hold it up to men , and bid them claim A palm like his , and catch from him the hallowed flame . " " The freshness of that past shall still Sacred to memory's holiest musings be ...
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... fame shall be achieved , renown on earth , And what most merits fame in silence hid . " Milton , b . xi . The beauty of the English language is conspicuous in English poetry and prose . It is fortunate for our vernacular , that the lan ...
... fame shall be achieved , renown on earth , And what most merits fame in silence hid . " Milton , b . xi . The beauty of the English language is conspicuous in English poetry and prose . It is fortunate for our vernacular , that the lan ...
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... fame , or benefitted by the emoluments of his pains , had gone to another world . Such are the common results of the exertions of genius and learning . On this great work all the lexicographers of our vernacular have modelled their ...
... fame , or benefitted by the emoluments of his pains , had gone to another world . Such are the common results of the exertions of genius and learning . On this great work all the lexicographers of our vernacular have modelled their ...
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... fame , and share his rewards . The study of the languages is not , in this country , confined to a few learned men , but is pursued by many of those engaged in pro- fessional business . Duponceau and Pickering , have written learn- edly ...
... fame , and share his rewards . The study of the languages is not , in this country , confined to a few learned men , but is pursued by many of those engaged in pro- fessional business . Duponceau and Pickering , have written learn- edly ...
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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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