Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day, with Portraits, Autographs, and Other Illustrations, Volumen2Charles Scribner, 1856 |
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... commenced prac- tice . In 1804 he published The Power of Solitude , a poem in two parts , with a few fugitive verses appended . The author was at a subsequent period a merciless critic on his own performance , burning all the copies he ...
... commenced prac- tice . In 1804 he published The Power of Solitude , a poem in two parts , with a few fugitive verses appended . The author was at a subsequent period a merciless critic on his own performance , burning all the copies he ...
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... commenced a second residence in London , where , in 1813 , he published a small voluine , The Sylphs of the Sea- sons , and other Poems , which was reprinted in Boston the same year . The date is also marked in his career by the death ...
... commenced a second residence in London , where , in 1813 , he published a small voluine , The Sylphs of the Sea- sons , and other Poems , which was reprinted in Boston the same year . The date is also marked in his career by the death ...
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... commenced The Ordeal , a weekly , of sixteen octavo pages , which lasted six months . In 1817 , he commenced , with Samuel L. Knapp , The New England Galaxy and Masonic Maga- zine . It was started without capital by its pro- jector ...
... commenced The Ordeal , a weekly , of sixteen octavo pages , which lasted six months . In 1817 , he commenced , with Samuel L. Knapp , The New England Galaxy and Masonic Maga- zine . It was started without capital by its pro- jector ...
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... commencement of the American Revolution , and the measures adopted , and the motives assigned to bring on that contest ... commenced his literary career as a writer in the Port Folio , and in 1809 published A Letter on the Genius and ...
... commencement of the American Revolution , and the measures adopted , and the motives assigned to bring on that contest ... commenced his literary career as a writer in the Port Folio , and in 1809 published A Letter on the Genius and ...
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... commenced with the year the pub- lication of the first quarterly attempted in Ame- rica , The American Review of History and Politics . Eight numbers appeared , carrying the work through two years . Most of the articles were from the ...
... commenced with the year the pub- lication of the first quarterly attempted in Ame- rica , The American Review of History and Politics . Eight numbers appeared , carrying the work through two years . Most of the articles were from the ...
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Página 186 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Página 366 - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...
Página 187 - 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 341 - I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon; To whom the better elements And kindly stars have given A form so fair, that, like the air, 'Tis less of earth than heaven.
Página 186 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly seen against the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Página 367 - The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken; The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost.
Página 186 - All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Página 187 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light, and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
Página 210 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power : In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror...
Página 33 - Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proofs of its utility and its blessings; and, although our territory has stretched out wider and wider, and our population spread farther and farther, they have not outrun its protection or its benefits. It has been to us all a copious fountain of national, social, and personal happiness.