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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... look far beyond his own times , and to anticipate the results which , by a slow process , experience must bring to light . Before the year 1630 , or more than half a century before Locke wrote his treatise on toleration , Roger Williams ...
... look far beyond his own times , and to anticipate the results which , by a slow process , experience must bring to light . Before the year 1630 , or more than half a century before Locke wrote his treatise on toleration , Roger Williams ...
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... look towards the great and spacious meeting - house of Salem , and immediately a demon , invisibly entering the house , tore down a part of it . ' To believe all that Mather had said and written of demonology , was the only way of ...
... look towards the great and spacious meeting - house of Salem , and immediately a demon , invisibly entering the house , tore down a part of it . ' To believe all that Mather had said and written of demonology , was the only way of ...
الصفحة 47
... Looks kindly on that spot last . The pilgrim spirit has not fled : It walks in noon's broad light ; And it watches the bed of the glorious dead , With the holy stars , by night . It watches the bed of the brave who have bled , And shall ...
... Looks kindly on that spot last . The pilgrim spirit has not fled : It walks in noon's broad light ; And it watches the bed of the glorious dead , With the holy stars , by night . It watches the bed of the brave who have bled , And shall ...
الصفحة 48
... look is in each face , Subdued and holy fear : Each motion's gentle ; all is kindly done.— Come , listen , how from crime the isle was won ' The taste displayed in many parts of the narrative is question- able , and the interest is ...
... look is in each face , Subdued and holy fear : Each motion's gentle ; all is kindly done.— Come , listen , how from crime the isle was won ' The taste displayed in many parts of the narrative is question- able , and the interest is ...
الصفحة 58
... look in vain for new thoughts and well - chosen imagery . It is said — and the remark coincides with impressions derived from his writings - that the career of Dr Percival has been marked by traits of great eccentricity , and that ...
... look in vain for new thoughts and well - chosen imagery . It is said — and the remark coincides with impressions derived from his writings - that the career of Dr Percival has been marked by traits of great eccentricity , and that ...
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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.