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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... moral consequences on the other side of the Atlantic . It is a melancholy fact , that so many thousands of persons are found , after repeated remon- strance , willing to derive profit , instruction , and entertainment from the labour ...
... moral consequences on the other side of the Atlantic . It is a melancholy fact , that so many thousands of persons are found , after repeated remon- strance , willing to derive profit , instruction , and entertainment from the labour ...
الصفحة xi
... the other's view . The identity of the great monuments of genius and study will be confounded and lost . ' 1 This was written in 1842 . 2 North American Review , No. 55 . On the moral effects of the system , several grave INTRODUCTION . xi.
... the other's view . The identity of the great monuments of genius and study will be confounded and lost . ' 1 This was written in 1842 . 2 North American Review , No. 55 . On the moral effects of the system , several grave INTRODUCTION . xi.
الصفحة xii
... moral deformity ) , are made worse by the addition of gross obscenity by the translator ; and from those of Eugene Sue the reflective portions , which serve to neutralise the effects of the narrative , are left out . All private morals ...
... moral deformity ) , are made worse by the addition of gross obscenity by the translator ; and from those of Eugene Sue the reflective portions , which serve to neutralise the effects of the narrative , are left out . All private morals ...
الصفحة 13
... moral character . Following the example of his father , Cotton Mather kept a diary , in which he recorded even his inmost thoughts and feelings , and fully displayed his eccentricities . The mixture of religious meditations with the ...
... moral character . Following the example of his father , Cotton Mather kept a diary , in which he recorded even his inmost thoughts and feelings , and fully displayed his eccentricities . The mixture of religious meditations with the ...
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... moral excellency ; " and that true virtue consists in benevolence having for its objects all intelligent beings ; but he qualified these asser- tions by denying that such religion and virtue could co - exist with certain theological ...
... moral excellency ; " and that true virtue consists in benevolence having for its objects all intelligent beings ; but he qualified these asser- tions by denying that such religion and virtue could co - exist with certain theological ...
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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.