American Literature in the Colonial and National PeriodsLittle, Brown, 1902 - 480 páginas |
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Lorenzo Sears. PAGE · 224 XX . NATHANIEL P. WILLIS AND BAYARD TAYLOR Early promise - Light prose and verse Travel- - ler's letters - " White Poplar literature 99 -- - Bay- ard Taylor - Traveller and journalist- " By - Ways of Europe ...
Lorenzo Sears. PAGE · 224 XX . NATHANIEL P. WILLIS AND BAYARD TAYLOR Early promise - Light prose and verse Travel- - ler's letters - " White Poplar literature 99 -- - Bay- ard Taylor - Traveller and journalist- " By - Ways of Europe ...
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... the steel volcanoes afford as much inspiration to the coming Cooper as the bristling hulls and clouds of canvas did to our first novelist of the sea ? XX NATHANIEL P. WILLIS AND BAYARD TAYLOR THERE are names James Fenimore Cooper 223.
... the steel volcanoes afford as much inspiration to the coming Cooper as the bristling hulls and clouds of canvas did to our first novelist of the sea ? XX NATHANIEL P. WILLIS AND BAYARD TAYLOR THERE are names James Fenimore Cooper 223.
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Lorenzo Sears. XX NATHANIEL P. WILLIS AND BAYARD TAYLOR THERE are names in the history of any literature which become faint echoes of their former importance . Once they were shouted by the multitude ; now they are recalled as having a ...
Lorenzo Sears. XX NATHANIEL P. WILLIS AND BAYARD TAYLOR THERE are names in the history of any literature which become faint echoes of their former importance . Once they were shouted by the multitude ; now they are recalled as having a ...
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... daughter doomed by his own rash vow : " A pallid man Was stretching out his hands to heaven , As if he would pray'd , but had no words- Light Prose and Verse . And she who was to 15 . Nathaniel P. Willis and Bayard Taylor 225.
... daughter doomed by his own rash vow : " A pallid man Was stretching out his hands to heaven , As if he would pray'd , but had no words- Light Prose and Verse . And she who was to 15 . Nathaniel P. Willis and Bayard Taylor 225.
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... in the course of a life- time he produced many volumes . To read half of them would be worse than a waste of time . People did not lose - many hours together over them when they were published , Nathaniel P. Willis and Bayard Taylor 227.
... in the course of a life- time he produced many volumes . To read half of them would be worse than a waste of time . People did not lose - many hours together over them when they were published , Nathaniel P. Willis and Bayard Taylor 227.
Términos y frases comunes
American ancient Anne Bradstreet appeared Bayard Taylor began beginning Boston British called Canaan century character Charlotte Temple colonial colonists Constitution contemporary Cotton Mather criticism early England English example fiction followed Franklin gathered hand heart historian History of Virginia humor hundred imitation Indian interest Irving James Otis John John Adams JOHN PENDLETON KENNEDY labor land later letters liberty literary literature living manner Massachusetts matter ment mind nation nature never novelist novels orators patriotic period Philip Freneau poems poet poetic poetry political present prose published Puritan race readers rhyme romance Samuel Adams sentiment sermons side sometimes song soul speech spirit story style things thought tion town turned verse Virginia voice volumes Washington Irving Whig William words writing written wrote York young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 22 - And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search an unknown coast.
Página 285 - Still stands the forest primeval ; but under the shade of its branches Dwells another race, with other customs and language. Only along the shore of the mournful and misty Atlantic Linger a few Acadian peasants, whose fathers from exile Wandered back to their native land to die in its bosom.
Página 294 - The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of Nature. Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, Night and her stars. Ever the winds blow ; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages.
Página 316 - Lo, it is I, be not afraid! In many climes, without avail, Thou hast spent thy life...
Página 255 - BECAUSE I feel that, in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of "Mother," Therefore by that dear name I long have called you— You who are more than mother unto me, And fill my heart of hearts, where Death installed you, In setting my Virginia's spirit free. My...
Página 253 - Dreamland By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE - out of TIME.
Página 259 - I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder — there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters — and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the "HOUSE OF USHER.
Página 174 - During the contest of opinion through which we have passed, the animation of discussions and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers unused to think freely, and to speak and to write what they think ; but this being now decided by the voice of the nation, announced according to the rules of the Constitution, all will of course arrange themselves under the will of the law, and unite in common efforts for the common good.
Página 291 - ... new imagery ceases to be created, and old words are perverted to stand for things which are not ; a paper currency is employed, when there is no bullion in the vaults.
Página 351 - As I wend to the shores I know not, As I list to the dirge, the voices of men and women wreck'd, As I inhale the impalpable breezes that set in upon me, , As the ocean so mysterious rolls toward me closer and closer, I too but signify at the utmost a little wash'd-up drift, A few sands and dead leaves to gather, Gather, and merge myself as part of the sands and drift.
Referencias a este libro
American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary Edd Applegate Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |
A History of the United States and Its People from Their Earliest Records to ... Elroy McKendree Avery Sin vista previa disponible - 1999 |