Introduction to American Literature: Including Illustrative Selections, with NotesLeach, Shewell & Sanborn, 1897 - 498 من الصفحات |
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... turned over to the college . For its further support , twenty thousand acres of land were set apart for its use , and a tax of a penny a pound was laid on all tobacco ex- ported from Virginia and Maryland to other American 1 Tyler ...
... turned over to the college . For its further support , twenty thousand acres of land were set apart for its use , and a tax of a penny a pound was laid on all tobacco ex- ported from Virginia and Maryland to other American 1 Tyler ...
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... not strange that one of his contemporaries , in the presence of this extraordinary activity , should exclaim : " Is the blest Mather necromancer turned ? " Among his numerous works , there is one that stands COTTON MATHER . 27.
... not strange that one of his contemporaries , in the presence of this extraordinary activity , should exclaim : " Is the blest Mather necromancer turned ? " Among his numerous works , there is one that stands COTTON MATHER . 27.
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... turned immigration westward . Manual labor contracted a fatal taint from slavery . While the slaveholding class were generally intelligent , and often highly cultured , the rest of the white population were comparatively illiterate ...
... turned immigration westward . Manual labor contracted a fatal taint from slavery . While the slaveholding class were generally intelligent , and often highly cultured , the rest of the white population were comparatively illiterate ...
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... turned to his home on the Hudson . to be once more back at dear little Sunnyside , " he wrote in 1845 , " while I have yet strength and good spirits to enjoy the simple pleasures of the country , and to rally a happy family group once ...
... turned to his home on the Hudson . to be once more back at dear little Sunnyside , " he wrote in 1845 , " while I have yet strength and good spirits to enjoy the simple pleasures of the country , and to rally a happy family group once ...
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... turned to good account in his admirable sea stories. His naval career was cut short by his falling in love. In January, 1811, he married a Miss De Lancey, a lady of Huguenot family, and five months later he tendered his resignation in ...
... turned to good account in his admirable sea stories. His naval career was cut short by his falling in love. In January, 1811, he married a Miss De Lancey, a lady of Huguenot family, and five months later he tendered his resignation in ...
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الصفحة 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 !
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.