Introduction to American Literature: Including Illustrative Selections, with NotesLeach, Shewell & Sanborn, 1897 - 498 páginas |
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... hope that it may be found likewise to supply a want . ROANOKE College , March , 1897 . F. V. N. PAINTER . PUBLISHERS ' NOTE . To meet the requirements of all institutions where American literature is regularly taught , the book is ...
... hope that it may be found likewise to supply a want . ROANOKE College , March , 1897 . F. V. N. PAINTER . PUBLISHERS ' NOTE . To meet the requirements of all institutions where American literature is regularly taught , the book is ...
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... hope we shall not have , these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience , and heresy , and sects into the world , and printing has divulged them , and libels against the best government . God keep us from both . " 2 Surely ...
... hope we shall not have , these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience , and heresy , and sects into the world , and printing has divulged them , and libels against the best government . God keep us from both . " 2 Surely ...
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... Hope Leslie , " " Clar- ence , " and " The Linwoods . " 66 Poems , " LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY ( 1791-1865 ) . Writer of both prose and poetry ; well described as " the American Hemans . " Among her works are " Traits of the Aborigines of ...
... Hope Leslie , " " Clar- ence , " and " The Linwoods . " 66 Poems , " LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY ( 1791-1865 ) . Writer of both prose and poetry ; well described as " the American Hemans . " Among her works are " Traits of the Aborigines of ...
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... hope , he re- ceived the announcement with the manly courage that had characterized him all through life . He gave up the literary projects he was fondly cherishing , and spent his last days in the cheerful resignation of Christian ...
... hope , he re- ceived the announcement with the manly courage that had characterized him all through life . He gave up the literary projects he was fondly cherishing , and spent his last days in the cheerful resignation of Christian ...
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... hope To copy thy example , and to leave A name of which the wretched shall not think As of an enemy's , whom they forgive As all forgive the dead . Rest , therefore , thou Whose early guidance trained my infant steps - Rest , in the ...
... hope To copy thy example , and to leave A name of which the wretched shall not think As of an enemy's , whom they forgive As all forgive the dead . Rest , therefore , thou Whose early guidance trained my infant steps - Rest , in the ...
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Página 372 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou/' I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore !
Página 309 - He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
Página 480 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Página 362 - And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.
Página 178 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Página 384 - In the whole composition there should be no word written, of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one pre-established design.
Página 141 - In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief: Yet not unmeet it was that one like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.
Página 298 - I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that " except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.
Página 374 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Página 371 - Only this and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore, Nameless here for evermore.