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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... live on the manufactures of his imagination , is continually coquetting with starvation . ' That this should be the case to a greater extent in America than in England , is mainly owing to the want of international copy- right law ...
... live on the manufactures of his imagination , is continually coquetting with starvation . ' That this should be the case to a greater extent in America than in England , is mainly owing to the want of international copy- right law ...
الصفحة xi
... lives in the writings of Scott , there is any number deserving to be counted who have satisfaction in the remembrance of having contributed nothing to keep that great heart from breaking . Had American laws been but as honest as ...
... lives in the writings of Scott , there is any number deserving to be counted who have satisfaction in the remembrance of having contributed nothing to keep that great heart from breaking . Had American laws been but as honest as ...
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... live is a wilderness wood , Where grass is much wanted that's fruitful and good ; Our mountains and hills and valleys below Are commonly covered with frost and with snow ; And when the north - west wind with violence blows FIRST PERIOD ...
... live is a wilderness wood , Where grass is much wanted that's fruitful and good ; Our mountains and hills and valleys below Are commonly covered with frost and with snow ; And when the north - west wind with violence blows FIRST PERIOD ...
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... live , expense is constant and certain ; and ' It is easier to build two chimneys , than to keep one in fuel , ' as Poor Richard says ; so , ' Rather go to bed supperless , than rise in debt . ' ' Get what you can , and what you get ...
... live , expense is constant and certain ; and ' It is easier to build two chimneys , than to keep one in fuel , ' as Poor Richard says ; so , ' Rather go to bed supperless , than rise in debt . ' ' Get what you can , and what you get ...
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... Lives of the Three Judges of Charles I. The name of DAVID RITTENHOUSE ( 1732-1796 ) , a great and self - educated genius , who enriched his country by his mechanical inventions , belongs rather to science than to literature . His ...
... Lives of the Three Judges of Charles I. The name of DAVID RITTENHOUSE ( 1732-1796 ) , a great and self - educated genius , who enriched his country by his mechanical inventions , belongs rather to science than to literature . His ...
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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.