American Literature in the Colonial and National PeriodsLittle, Brown, 1902 - 480 páginas |
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... becomes the slave of a Bashaw and the favorite of a princess at Constanti- nople , escapes , turns up in Barbary , fights pirates , shares booty , and finally returns to England to hear of recent American discoveries , among them " the ...
... becomes the slave of a Bashaw and the favorite of a princess at Constanti- nople , escapes , turns up in Barbary , fights pirates , shares booty , and finally returns to England to hear of recent American discoveries , among them " the ...
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... becomes apparent in a detailed narration of several visits to Mme . Winthrop herself , interspersed with letters and presents of sermons , in return for which he receives " a great deal of courtesy , wine , and marmalade . " But one day ...
... becomes apparent in a detailed narration of several visits to Mme . Winthrop herself , interspersed with letters and presents of sermons , in return for which he receives " a great deal of courtesy , wine , and marmalade . " But one day ...
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... become of Cotton Mather if he had not disgorged some of the treasures he was continually swallowing ? In this , as in his discoursings on witchcraft , some allowance should be made for the age in which he lived . Its tastes and ...
... become of Cotton Mather if he had not disgorged some of the treasures he was continually swallowing ? In this , as in his discoursings on witchcraft , some allowance should be made for the age in which he lived . Its tastes and ...
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... becoming a glorious defender of his country , and seven times the chief magistrate of the chiefest city in the universe ; nor with Iphicrates , who became a successful and renowned general of a great people , though his father were a ...
... becoming a glorious defender of his country , and seven times the chief magistrate of the chiefest city in the universe ; nor with Iphicrates , who became a successful and renowned general of a great people , though his father were a ...
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... becoming the subject of our history , by his nativity , belonged unto . . . . My reader being now satisfied that a person's being obscure in his original is not always a just prejudice to an expectation of considerable matters from him ...
... becoming the subject of our history , by his nativity , belonged unto . . . . My reader being now satisfied that a person's being obscure in his original is not always a just prejudice to an expectation of considerable matters from him ...
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American ancient appeared Bayard Taylor began Boston called century character Charlotte Temple colonial Constitution contemporary Cotton Mather criticism Dutch Republic early Edmund Andros Edward Eggleston eloquence England English essays fiction followed foreign gathered hand Hawthorne heart historian humor hundred Indian inspiration interest Irving Joel Chandler Harris John JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER JOHN PENDLETON KENNEDY labor land later letters liberty literary literature living Lowell manner Mary Noailles Murfree Massachusetts mind Nathaniel Hawthorne nation nature neighbors never novel novelist orators patriotic period poems poet poetic poetry political prose published Puritan race readers rhyme romance sentiment side sometimes song soul speech spirit story style sympathy thee things thought tion town truth turn verse voice volumes Walt Whitman Whitman William words writers written wrote York young youth
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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 332 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
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 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 290 - When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires, the desire of riches, of pleasure, of power, and of praise, — and duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost ; 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 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 316 - Lo it is I, be not afraid ! In many climes, without avail, Thou hast spent thy life for the Holy Grail ; Behold, it is here, — this cup which thou Didst fill at the streamlet for me but now ; This crust is my body broken for thee...
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 188 - A troop of strange children ran at his heels, hooting after him and pointing at his gray beard. The dogs too, not one of which he recognized for an old acquaintance, barked at him as he passed.