Hand-book of American literature, historical, biographical, and critical [by J. Gostwick. The title-leaf is a cancel].Kennikat Press, 1856 - 319 من الصفحات |
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... Italian poetry , In prose , he wrote a work entitled Conjectures and Researches concerning the Love , Madness , and Imprisonment of Torquato Tasso ( 1842 ) , in which he attempted to prove that the friendship between the poet and the ...
... Italian poetry , In prose , he wrote a work entitled Conjectures and Researches concerning the Love , Madness , and Imprisonment of Torquato Tasso ( 1842 ) , in which he attempted to prove that the friendship between the poet and the ...
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... Italy , came to England , where he stayed two years . In a light , sketchy , and clever style , he gave his impressions of travel , under the title of Pencillings by the Way . In some parts of this popular book , the writer described ...
... Italy , came to England , where he stayed two years . In a light , sketchy , and clever style , he gave his impressions of travel , under the title of Pencillings by the Way . In some parts of this popular book , the writer described ...
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... Italian story of a tragic character , and is supposed to be told during a ramble near Tivoli . This plan admits several pleasing allusions to the scenery and classic localities of Italy . Lord Ivon and his Daughter , a dramatic sketch ...
... Italian story of a tragic character , and is supposed to be told during a ramble near Tivoli . This plan admits several pleasing allusions to the scenery and classic localities of Italy . Lord Ivon and his Daughter , a dramatic sketch ...
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... Italy , Spain , Germany , Holland , and England . His residence in Germany , and the study of the poetical literature of this country , had a lasting influence on his taste and imagination ; and it has been asserted by some , that his ...
... Italy , Spain , Germany , Holland , and England . His residence in Germany , and the study of the poetical literature of this country , had a lasting influence on his taste and imagination ; and it has been asserted by some , that his ...
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... Italy . On the contrary , though there are exceptions in some of the maritime provinces , yet for the greater part it is a stern melancholy country , with rugged mountains and long sweeping plains , destitute of trees , and ...
... Italy . On the contrary , though there are exceptions in some of the maritime provinces , yet for the greater part it is a stern melancholy country , with rugged mountains and long sweeping plains , destitute of trees , and ...
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الصفحة 55 - 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 94 - thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
الصفحة 61 - She wore no funeral weeds for thee, Nor bade the dark hearse wave its plume, Like torn branch from death's leafless tree, In sorrow's pomp and pageantry. The heartless luxury of the tomb. But she remembers thee as one Long loved, and for a season gone. For thee her poet's lyre is wreathed, Her marble wrought, her music breathed; For thee she rings the birthday bells; Of thee her babes' first lisping tells; For thine her evening prayer is said At palace couch and cottage bed.
الصفحة 88 - IT was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
الصفحة 56 - The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between, The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green, and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
الصفحة 92 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
الصفحة 137 - To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
الصفحة 78 - We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time.
الصفحة 139 - In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and...
الصفحة 69 - As when the Northern skies Gleam in December; And, like the water's flow Under December's snow, Came a dull voice of woe From the heart's chamber.