Introduction to American Literature: Including Illustrative Selections, with NotesLeach, Shewell & Sanborn, 1897 - 498 من الصفحات |
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... whole of the sev- enteenth century , may be called the First Colonial Period . The principal productions of this period represent , not American , but English , culture , and are concerned chiefly with a description of the New World ...
... whole of the sev- enteenth century , may be called the First Colonial Period . The principal productions of this period represent , not American , but English , culture , and are concerned chiefly with a description of the New World ...
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... whole century was consumed in getting the colony firmly on its feet . For a time disease carried off a large number of the colonists and discouraged the rest . The Indians frequently became unfriendly , and made re- peated attempts to ...
... whole century was consumed in getting the colony firmly on its feet . For a time disease carried off a large number of the colonists and discouraged the rest . The Indians frequently became unfriendly , and made re- peated attempts to ...
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... whole story of his adventures . Sub- sequently , after spending some time in Tartary , he made his escape through Russia , and at length returned to England in 1604. But his spirit of adventure was not yet satiated , and he at once ...
... whole story of his adventures . Sub- sequently , after spending some time in Tartary , he made his escape through Russia , and at length returned to England in 1604. But his spirit of adventure was not yet satiated , and he at once ...
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... whole seems to have been helpful to morality and piety . It was in this connection that Edwards wrote " Some Thoughts concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New England " — a work of such spir- itual discernment , practical ...
... whole seems to have been helpful to morality and piety . It was in this connection that Edwards wrote " Some Thoughts concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New England " — a work of such spir- itual discernment , practical ...
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... whole éclat of his reputation . " According to the judgment of Sir James Mackintosh , " In the power of subtile argument , he was , per- haps , unmatched , certainly unsurpassed among men . " Among his other works published while he was ...
... whole éclat of his reputation . " According to the judgment of Sir James Mackintosh , " In the power of subtile argument , he was , per- haps , unmatched , certainly unsurpassed among men . " Among his other works published while he was ...
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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.