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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... expression to some of the most important ideas connected with the welfare of mankind . It would be tedious and useless to enumerate the titles and . dates of the scattered materials of history found among early documents ; and to give ...
... expression to some of the most important ideas connected with the welfare of mankind . It would be tedious and useless to enumerate the titles and . dates of the scattered materials of history found among early documents ; and to give ...
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... expression to new ideas . The founder of Rhode Island would deserve to be remembered , if he had written nothing more than the article on religious liberty inserted in the charter of his colony . He wrote on theology , besides an ...
... expression to new ideas . The founder of Rhode Island would deserve to be remembered , if he had written nothing more than the article on religious liberty inserted in the charter of his colony . He wrote on theology , besides an ...
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... expression . He left at his decease some thousand and upwards of miscellaneous papers . Another JONATHAN EDWARDS ( 1745-1801 ) , the son of the preceding author , was president of Union College , and wrote in a style superior to that of ...
... expression . He left at his decease some thousand and upwards of miscellaneous papers . Another JONATHAN EDWARDS ( 1745-1801 ) , the son of the preceding author , was president of Union College , and wrote in a style superior to that of ...
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... expression to manly and earnest feelings ; while his private correspondence is full of cheerfulness and playful humour , and shews that he was capable of warm affections . The familiar essays supply models of a style of homely ...
... expression to manly and earnest feelings ; while his private correspondence is full of cheerfulness and playful humour , and shews that he was capable of warm affections . The familiar essays supply models of a style of homely ...
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... expression of his fears gave rise to injurious suspicions of his motives ; but it appears that no charge can be maintained against the consistency of his public life . In the federal convention , he proposed that the offices of the ...
... expression of his fears gave rise to injurious suspicions of his motives ; but it appears that no charge can be maintained against the consistency of his public life . In the federal convention , he proposed that the offices of the ...
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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.