A Short History of American Literature: Designed Primarily for Use in Schools and CollegesD.C. Heath & Company, 1900 - 374 páginas |
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... give it a literary atmosphere , in the conviction that text - books on literature should contribute directly to the student's culture as well as to his knowledge of facts . It is hoped , therefore , that the general reader may find the ...
... give it a literary atmosphere , in the conviction that text - books on literature should contribute directly to the student's culture as well as to his knowledge of facts . It is hoped , therefore , that the general reader may find the ...
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... gives a certain greatness to many a heavy sermon and dull poem ; and through- out the whole mass of this literature can be felt the intellectual solidity , moral soundness , and sturdy practi- cal sense of the Anglo - Saxon race . Among ...
... gives a certain greatness to many a heavy sermon and dull poem ; and through- out the whole mass of this literature can be felt the intellectual solidity , moral soundness , and sturdy practi- cal sense of the Anglo - Saxon race . Among ...
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... gives unity and even a kind of great- ness to the book . But in form it is crude ; much of the subject - matter is dry ; and the narrowness and harshness of Puritanism are often painfully apparent . It has been wittily said of the pious ...
... gives unity and even a kind of great- ness to the book . But in form it is crude ; much of the subject - matter is dry ; and the narrowness and harshness of Puritanism are often painfully apparent . It has been wittily said of the pious ...
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... give that man high attainments in Christianity " ; " and when he did so mean an action as paring his nails , he thought how he might lay aside all superfluity of naughtiness . " In his writings Mather strove mightily to bring New ...
... give that man high attainments in Christianity " ; " and when he did so mean an action as paring his nails , he thought how he might lay aside all superfluity of naughtiness . " In his writings Mather strove mightily to bring New ...
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... gives very interesting and sometimes very amusing pictures of the man and the times― the 1 See A. V. G. Allen's life of Edwards ( American Religious Leaders series ) , p . 283 , where the quotation is given , anonymously . For a ...
... gives very interesting and sometimes very amusing pictures of the man and the times― the 1 See A. V. G. Allen's life of Edwards ( American Religious Leaders series ) , p . 283 , where the quotation is given , anonymously . For a ...
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American literature Anne Bradstreet Atlantic Monthly Ballads beauty Biographical Boston Brown Bryant century character charm chiefly Church College colony Concord contain Cotton Mather criticisms death early Emerson England English Essays Europe F. B. Sanborn fancy friends George grace Graham's Magazine Harper Harvard Hawthorne Hawthorne's History Holmes humor imagination Increase Mather Indian intellectual Irving Joel Barlow John John Trumbull lectures Letters Series Library literary lived London Longfellow Lowell Lyrics Magazine Massachusetts mind moral narrative nature New-England North novels orator passion period Philadelphia Philip Freneau Poe's poems poet poetic poetry political prose published Puritan Putnam R. H. Dana Reprinted Revolution romance satire says Scarlet Letter Scribner sense sketches slavery Song soul South Southern spirit story style sweet Thomas thought tion Unitarian verse Virginia Whittier whole wife William World writings written wrote York
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Página 304 - God's excellency, his wisdom, his purity and love, seemed to appear in every thing; in the sun, moon and stars; in the clouds, and blue sky; in the grass, flowers, trees ; in the water, and all nature ; which used greatly to fix my mind.
Página 333 - Tis the six-and-twentieth edition, promulgated at Boston, Anno Domini, 1744; and is entitled, 'The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testaments; faithfully translated into English Metre, for the Use, Edification, and Comfort of the Saints in Publick and Private especially in New-England.
Página 175 - Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away!
Página 170 - Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago) And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odor went away.
Página 274 - With all the mournful voices of the dirges pour'd around the coffin, The dim-lit churches and the shuddering organs - where amid these you journey, With the tolling tolling bells' perpetual clang, Here, coffin that slowly passes, I give you my sprig of lilac.
Página 273 - There is no stoppage and never can be stoppage, If I, you, and the worlds, and all beneath or upon their surfaces, were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would not avail in the long run, We should surely bring up again where we now stand, And surely go as much farther, and then farther and farther.
Página 202 - The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass. "The visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible.
Página 297 - One thing may be said for the Inhabitants of that Province, that they are not troubled with any Religious Fumes, and have the least Superstition of any People living. They do not know Sunday from any other day, any more than Robinson Crusoe did, which would give them a great Advantage were they given to be industrious. But they keep so many Sabbaths every week, that their disregard of the Seventh Day has no manner of cruelty in it, either to Servants or Cattle.
Página 318 - COME, join Hand in Hand, brave AMERICANS all, And rouse your bold Hearts at fair LIBERTY'S Call; No tyrannous Acts shall suppress your just Claim, Or stain with Dishonour AMERICA'S Name.
Página 302 - That draws oblivions curtains over kings, Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not, Their names without a Record are forgot, Their parts, their ports, their pomp's all laid in th...