An Outline Sketch of American LiteratureChautauqua Press, 1887 - 287 páginas |
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... wrote ; those " stern men with em- pires in their brains " had more pressing work to do than the making of books . The first settlers , indeed , were brought face to face with strange and exciting conditions - the sea , the wilderness ...
... wrote ; those " stern men with em- pires in their brains " had more pressing work to do than the making of books . The first settlers , indeed , were brought face to face with strange and exciting conditions - the sea , the wilderness ...
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... wrote Smith . Many cir- cumstances in The Tempest were doubtless sug- gested by the wreck of the Sea Venture on " the still vext Bermoothes , " as described by William Strachey in his True Reportory of the Wrack and 66 Redemption of Sir ...
... wrote Smith . Many cir- cumstances in The Tempest were doubtless sug- gested by the wreck of the Sea Venture on " the still vext Bermoothes , " as described by William Strachey in his True Reportory of the Wrack and 66 Redemption of Sir ...
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... wrote Mather , " a little be- fore the second coming of our Lord . The evening wolves will be much abroad when we are near the evening of the world . " This belief culminated in the horrible witchcraft delusion at Salem in 1692 , that ...
... wrote Mather , " a little be- fore the second coming of our Lord . The evening wolves will be much abroad when we are near the evening of the world . " This belief culminated in the horrible witchcraft delusion at Salem in 1692 , that ...
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... wrote not after the preacher , yet such was his attention and such . his retention in hearing , that he repeated unto his family the sermons which he had heard in the congregation . " These discourses were commonly of great length ...
... wrote not after the preacher , yet such was his attention and such . his retention in hearing , that he repeated unto his family the sermons which he had heard in the congregation . " These discourses were commonly of great length ...
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... wrote in the full and pregnant style of Taylor , Milton , Brown , Fuller , and Burton , a style ponderous with learning and stiff with allu- sions , digressions , conceits , anecdotes , and quota- tions from the Greek and the Latin . A ...
... wrote in the full and pregnant style of Taylor , Milton , Brown , Fuller , and Burton , a style ponderous with learning and stiff with allu- sions , digressions , conceits , anecdotes , and quota- tions from the Greek and the Latin . A ...
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Página 13 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Página 56 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Página 193 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Página 203 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Página 135 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Página 203 - The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sun-flower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland, glade, and glen.
Página 56 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
Página 99 - As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so...
Página 49 - Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. Thus, if you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.
Página 207 - Did we dare, In our agony of prayer, Ask for more than he has done? When was ever His right hand Over any time or land Stretched as now beneath the sun?