American Literature, 1607-1885: The development of American thoughtG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1886 |
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... century to point out both the faults and the fame . The same may be said of Poe . If we go to Poe for what he cannot furnish , we shall be disap- pointed . He has no answer to life's problems , no help for life's struggle , no strong ...
... century to point out both the faults and the fame . The same may be said of Poe . If we go to Poe for what he cannot furnish , we shall be disap- pointed . He has no answer to life's problems , no help for life's struggle , no strong ...
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... century , and that our historians are the equals of any who have written in Europe ; beyond this he was hardly ready to make many claims Introduction . XV CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION THE PERSPECTIVE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.
... century , and that our historians are the equals of any who have written in Europe ; beyond this he was hardly ready to make many claims Introduction . XV CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION THE PERSPECTIVE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.
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... century choir of lyrists , Sir Thomas Browne , Jeremy Taylor , Addison , Swift , Dryden , Gray , Goldsmith , and the eighteenth- century novelists , what shall we say of the intrinsic literary worth of most of the books written on Amer ...
... century choir of lyrists , Sir Thomas Browne , Jeremy Taylor , Addison , Swift , Dryden , Gray , Goldsmith , and the eighteenth- century novelists , what shall we say of the intrinsic literary worth of most of the books written on Amer ...
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... century , and from Britain to America in the seventeenth ; little by little they crowd their predecessors back- ward and downward , or shape them into new forms , until of the five great nations of the world , at the close of the ...
... century , and from Britain to America in the seventeenth ; little by little they crowd their predecessors back- ward and downward , or shape them into new forms , until of the five great nations of the world , at the close of the ...
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... century the ritual class had the upper hand in England , therefore no small portion of the independents founded a ... centuries and a half . They made the American nation and American literature possible . Without William Bradford and ...
... century the ritual class had the upper hand in England , therefore no small portion of the independents founded a ... centuries and a half . They made the American nation and American literature possible . Without William Bradford and ...
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Página 241 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Página 196 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 189 - 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 the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House?
Página 204 - ... the foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the pre-eminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens and command the respect of the world.
Página 255 - With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his...
Página 255 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 196 - Sometimes it is said, that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or, have we found angels in the form of kings, to govern him ? Let history answer this question.
Página 254 - The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
Página 241 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of...
Página 410 - Tis as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood. Should bloom, after cycles of struggle and scathe, With a single anemone trembly and rathe ; His strength is so tender, his...