Masterpieces of American Literature: Franklin, Irving, Bryant, Webster, Everett, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Whittier, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Thoreau, Poe, O'Reilly : with Biographical Sketches and PortraitsJohn Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler Houghton Mifflin, 1891 - 504 من الصفحات |
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... students , should yet be within their reach ; that they should be inspiring and uplifting in their influence upon life and character , and fitted to serve the great purpose of developing a sense of what real literature is.
... students , should yet be within their reach ; that they should be inspiring and uplifting in their influence upon life and character , and fitted to serve the great purpose of developing a sense of what real literature is.
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... sense of what real literature is , both in form and in spirit . While holding to these considerations , it was also kept in mind that the book must be a reading - book , in the school sense . It is to be used for improvement in the art ...
... sense of what real literature is , both in form and in spirit . While holding to these considerations , it was also kept in mind that the book must be a reading - book , in the school sense . It is to be used for improvement in the art ...
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... sense of proportion , faithfulness , and candor , rather than by the severer work of the historian . It is a popular and a fair life of Washington and account of the war for independence . Irving's personal and literary history is ...
... sense of proportion , faithfulness , and candor , rather than by the severer work of the historian . It is a popular and a fair life of Washington and account of the war for independence . Irving's personal and literary history is ...
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... sense of the ridiculous , wast- ing the richness of its fancy on an ungrateful theme , and its exuberant humor in a coarse caricature . " Irving took the cen- sure good - naturedly , and as he read Verplanck's words just as he was ...
... sense of the ridiculous , wast- ing the richness of its fancy on an ungrateful theme , and its exuberant humor in a coarse caricature . " Irving took the cen- sure good - naturedly , and as he read Verplanck's words just as he was ...
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... was soon tempted to repeat the draught . One taste provoked another ; and he reiter- ated his visits to the flagon so often that at length his senses were overpowered , his eyes swam in his head 18 WASHINGTON IRVING .
... was soon tempted to repeat the draught . One taste provoked another ; and he reiter- ated his visits to the flagon so often that at length his senses were overpowered , his eyes swam in his head 18 WASHINGTON IRVING .
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الصفحة 272 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
الصفحة 37 - To him who in the love of Nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
الصفحة 38 - All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
الصفحة 39 - Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His...
الصفحة 83 - 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.
الصفحة 229 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
الصفحة 274 - We sit in the warm shade and feel right well How the sap creeps up and the blossoms swell; We may shut our eyes, but we cannot help knowing That skies are clear and grass is growing; The breeze comes whispering in our ear That dandelions are blossoming near, That maize has sprouted, that streams are flowing. That the river is bluer than the sky, That the robin is plastering his house hard by...
الصفحة 11 - It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble.
الصفحة 38 - To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share and treads upon : the oak Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mould.
الصفحة 10 - Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity; for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation, and a curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.