Hand-book of American literature, historical, biographical, and critical [by J. Gostwick. The title-leaf is a cancel].Kennikat Press, 1856 - 319 sidor |
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... beautiful woman , he implored that she might be most concerned for other ornaments than such as are perishable . In short , he had ejaculations prepared for all persons and circum- stances , and craved , ' for a tall man , ' high ...
... beautiful woman , he implored that she might be most concerned for other ornaments than such as are perishable . In short , he had ejaculations prepared for all persons and circum- stances , and craved , ' for a tall man , ' high ...
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... beautiful . A third novel , Arthur Mervyn , describes with a painful fidelity scenes in Philadelphia during the pestilence of yellow fever which prevailed there in 1793. This tale was followed by Edgar Huntley , the Memoirs of a ...
... beautiful . A third novel , Arthur Mervyn , describes with a painful fidelity scenes in Philadelphia during the pestilence of yellow fever which prevailed there in 1793. This tale was followed by Edgar Huntley , the Memoirs of a ...
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... beautiful ! no ripples break the reach , And silvery waves go noiseless up the beach . And inland rests the green , warm dell ; The brook comes tinkling down its side ; From out the trees the Sabbath - bell Rings cheerful , far and wide ...
... beautiful ! no ripples break the reach , And silvery waves go noiseless up the beach . And inland rests the green , warm dell ; The brook comes tinkling down its side ; From out the trees the Sabbath - bell Rings cheerful , far and wide ...
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... beautiful song - The Lament of the Captive . His other writings in verse consisted mostly of translations from Italian poetry , In prose , he wrote a work entitled Conjectures and Researches concerning the Love , Madness , and ...
... beautiful song - The Lament of the Captive . His other writings in verse consisted mostly of translations from Italian poetry , In prose , he wrote a work entitled Conjectures and Researches concerning the Love , Madness , and ...
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... beautiful production , evincing skill and taste in composition , and pure and melodious in its tone . ' JOSEPH DRAKE , who died in 1820 , wrote a spirited lyric on the American Flag , and a poem entitled The Culprit Fay , which ...
... beautiful production , evincing skill and taste in composition , and pure and melodious in its tone . ' JOSEPH DRAKE , who died in 1820 , wrote a spirited lyric on the American Flag , and a poem entitled The Culprit Fay , which ...
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Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 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...
Sida 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.