Introduction to American Literature: Including Illustrative Selections, with NotesLeach, Shewell & Sanborn, 1897 - 498 páginas |
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... Poor Richard's Almanac 289 JONATHAN EDWARDS - Resolutions 299 THOMAS JEFFERSON - Declaration of Independence ALEXANDER HAMILTON The Federalist . WASHINGTON IRVING Rip Van Winkle The Broken Heart . JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Escape from a ...
... Poor Richard's Almanac 289 JONATHAN EDWARDS - Resolutions 299 THOMAS JEFFERSON - Declaration of Independence ALEXANDER HAMILTON The Federalist . WASHINGTON IRVING Rip Van Winkle The Broken Heart . JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Escape from a ...
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Including Illustrative Selections, with Notes Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter. name of Richard Saunders ; it was continued about twenty - five years , and was commonly called " Poor Richard's Almanac . " It had an annual sale of about ...
Including Illustrative Selections, with Notes Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter. name of Richard Saunders ; it was continued about twenty - five years , and was commonly called " Poor Richard's Almanac . " It had an annual sale of about ...
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... poor - will , a Poem , " " American Melodies , " and , in conjunction with ... RICHARD HENRY WILDE ( 1789-1847 ) . Member of Congress from Georgia , author ... RICHARD HENRY DANA ( 1787-1879 ) . Poet , editor FIRST NATIONAL PERIOD . 93.
... poor - will , a Poem , " " American Melodies , " and , in conjunction with ... RICHARD HENRY WILDE ( 1789-1847 ) . Member of Congress from Georgia , author ... RICHARD HENRY DANA ( 1787-1879 ) . Poet , editor FIRST NATIONAL PERIOD . 93.
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... Richard Baxter , " and others , entitled " Old Portraits , " and 66 Margaret Smith's Journal in the Province of ... Poor Floyd Ireson , for his hard heart , Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead . " In ...
... Richard Baxter , " and others , entitled " Old Portraits , " and 66 Margaret Smith's Journal in the Province of ... Poor Floyd Ireson , for his hard heart , Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead . " In ...
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... POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC , FOR THE YEAR 1758 . I HAVE heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors . This pleasure I have seldom enjoyed ... POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC . 289.
... POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC , FOR THE YEAR 1758 . I HAVE heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors . This pleasure I have seldom enjoyed ... POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC . 289.
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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.