An Outline Sketch of American LiteratureChautauqua Press, 1887 - 287 páginas |
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Página 53 - and many of them remain as familiar as household words. "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. . . . Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace. ... Is life so dear, or peace so
Página 184 - Ode to Freedom, and the Capture of Fugitive Slaves, have the old Puritan fervor, and such lines as " They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three," and the passage beginning " Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,
Página 202 - by contrast the thought of death; and there is nowhere in his poetry a passage of deeper feeling than the closing stanzas of June, in which he speaks of himself, by anticipation, as of one " Whose part in all the pomp that fills The circuit of the summer hills Is—that his grave is green.
Página 58 - freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection, of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected." During his six years' residence in France, as American Minister, Jefferson had become indoctrinated with the
Página 183 - long as it is broad. An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God." The second number was a versified paraphrase of a letter received from Mr. Birdofredom Sawin, "a yung feller of our town that wuz cussed fool enuff to goe atrottin inter Miss Chiff arter a drum and fife,
Página 208 - palms in air, I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care." But from politics and war Whittier turned gladly to sing the homely life of the New England
Página 199 - Forced to drudge for the dregs of men, And scrawl strange words with the barbarous pen." Bryant was born at Cummington, in Berkshire, the westernmost county of Massachusetts. After two years in Williams College he studied law, and practiced for nine years as a country lawyer in Plainfield and Great
Página 113 - with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the
Página 187 - Beautiful! my Country! ours once more ! " and the close of the eighth strophe, where the poet chants of the youthful heroes who "Come transfigured back, Secure from change in their high-hearted ways, Beautiful evermore and with the rays Of morn on their white Shields of Expectation." From 1857 to 1862 Lowell edited the Atlantic Monthly, and from 1863 to 1872 the North American
Página 146 - Thy summer voice, Musketaquit,* Repeats the music of the rain, But sweeter rivers pulsing flit Through thee as thou through Concord plain. " Thou in thy narrow banks art pent: The stream I love unbounded goes ; Through flood and sea and firmament, Through light, through life, it forward flows.