Hand-book of American literature, historical, biographical, and critical [by J. Gostwick. The title-leaf is a cancel].Kennikat Press, 1856 - Всего страниц: 319 |
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... regarded as the complaint of an unsuccessful author . The writer has been chiefly engaged in reviewing and editing the works of his countrymen , and has been comparatively well rewarded for his labour . Speaking of the refusal of ...
... regarded as the complaint of an unsuccessful author . The writer has been chiefly engaged in reviewing and editing the works of his countrymen , and has been comparatively well rewarded for his labour . Speaking of the refusal of ...
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... regarded as a fair general survey of American Literature , it is necessary to observe , that it does not pretend to define strictly the proportionate merits of many living writers , or to anticipate the verdicts of future time on the ...
... regarded as a fair general survey of American Literature , it is necessary to observe , that it does not pretend to define strictly the proportionate merits of many living writers , or to anticipate the verdicts of future time on the ...
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... regarded an elegant style as the standard of worth in books ; but to pass over such works as Winthrop's Journal , the writings of Roger Williams , or the Magnalia of Cotton Mather - books reflecting the life and progress of a people ...
... regarded an elegant style as the standard of worth in books ; but to pass over such works as Winthrop's Journal , the writings of Roger Williams , or the Magnalia of Cotton Mather - books reflecting the life and progress of a people ...
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... regarded as a curious and valuable record of the oldest times in Massachusetts , and has supplied materials for the use of Bancroft and other historians . The plan of Winthrop's diary was adopted by WILLIAM HUBBARD ( 1621-1704 ) , who ...
... regarded as a curious and valuable record of the oldest times in Massachusetts , and has supplied materials for the use of Bancroft and other historians . The plan of Winthrop's diary was adopted by WILLIAM HUBBARD ( 1621-1704 ) , who ...
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... regarded as a scholar and a writer , was the representative man of New England in the latter part of the seventeenth and early part of the eighteenth century . This assertion must not be too strictly understood , as implying either that ...
... regarded as a scholar and a writer , was the representative man of New England in the latter part of the seventeenth and early part of the eighteenth century . This assertion must not be too strictly understood , as implying either that ...
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Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.