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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... manner : ' Our New England shall tell and boast of her Winthrop , a law- giver as patient as Lycurgus , but not ... manners of the colonists ; but theology was dominant in verse as well as prose ; or , if other topics were chosen , they ...
... manner : ' Our New England shall tell and boast of her Winthrop , a law- giver as patient as Lycurgus , but not ... manners of the colonists ; but theology was dominant in verse as well as prose ; or , if other topics were chosen , they ...
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... view of American society and manners in the beginning of the present century . President Dwight died at Newhaven in 1817 . In Religious Biography , numerous scattered memoirs may be found FIRST PERIOD . - THEOLOGICAL WRITERS . 21.
... view of American society and manners in the beginning of the present century . President Dwight died at Newhaven in 1817 . In Religious Biography , numerous scattered memoirs may be found FIRST PERIOD . - THEOLOGICAL WRITERS . 21.
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... manner , against the evils of slavery . In the course of a journey in Virginia ( 1746 ) , he writes in his diary : Two things were remarkable to me in this journey — first , in regard to my entertainment ; when I ate , drank , and ...
... manner , against the evils of slavery . In the course of a journey in Virginia ( 1746 ) , he writes in his diary : Two things were remarkable to me in this journey — first , in regard to my entertainment ; when I ate , drank , and ...
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... manner , that if I was dry , I drank the sweetest draught , and if hungry , I ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish . ' General Literature had made some progress , while theology was losing its exclusive sway , when the ...
... manner , that if I was dry , I drank the sweetest draught , and if hungry , I ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish . ' General Literature had made some progress , while theology was losing its exclusive sway , when the ...
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... manner which was intolerable . " " I can well remember , " writes Increase Mather , then more than fourscore years of age , " when the civil government would have taken an effectual course to suppress such a cursed libel . " In July ...
... manner which was intolerable . " " I can well remember , " writes Increase Mather , then more than fourscore years of age , " when the civil government would have taken an effectual course to suppress such a cursed libel . " In July ...
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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.