A Hand-book of English Literature: Intended for the Use of High Schools, as Well as a Companion and Guide for Private Students, and for General Readers. American AuthorsLee and Shepard, 1889 - 608 Seiten |
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... less as mirrors of Nature's beauty than as obstructions to travel that required bridging . The painted warrior was not the picturesque figure of woodland romance , as in the novels of later days , but a demon with a torch , tomahawk ...
... less as mirrors of Nature's beauty than as obstructions to travel that required bridging . The painted warrior was not the picturesque figure of woodland romance , as in the novels of later days , but a demon with a torch , tomahawk ...
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... less melody . As a sample of " The stretchéd metre of an antique song , ' " " we give some lines , in which David bewails his desolate condition From Psalm lxxxviii . Thy fierce wrath over mee doth goe , thy terrors they doe mee difmay ...
... less melody . As a sample of " The stretchéd metre of an antique song , ' " " we give some lines , in which David bewails his desolate condition From Psalm lxxxviii . Thy fierce wrath over mee doth goe , thy terrors they doe mee difmay ...
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... Thomas Shepard , John Eliot , and John Cotton ; but their works belong to the history of theology . The Plymouth Colony was even less fruitful in literature than the Colony of the Bay . The latter had a very xviii HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION .
... Thomas Shepard , John Eliot , and John Cotton ; but their works belong to the history of theology . The Plymouth Colony was even less fruitful in literature than the Colony of the Bay . The latter had a very xviii HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION .
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... less favorable to literature than Puritanism had been . And , besides , there was no college like Harvard in Penn's otherwise thriving colony . In New York the mixed origin of the people , the succession of conflicting governments , and ...
... less favorable to literature than Puritanism had been . And , besides , there was no college like Harvard in Penn's otherwise thriving colony . In New York the mixed origin of the people , the succession of conflicting governments , and ...
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... less books that are whelmed in oblivion , there would be some satisfac- tion in the sure though slow vengeance which overtakes dulness and pretension . But there are notable exceptions . The reader of this volume will find on pages 378 ...
... less books that are whelmed in oblivion , there would be some satisfac- tion in the sure though slow vengeance which overtakes dulness and pretension . But there are notable exceptions . The reader of this volume will find on pages 378 ...
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Seite 134 - 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.
Seite 357 - 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.
Seite 264 - TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal : Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Seite 136 - The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one, as before, will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Seite 345 - Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee— by these angels he hath sent thee Respite— respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore! Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!
Seite 590 - On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Seite 263 - Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Seite 448 - MINE eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord : He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored ; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword ; His truth is marching on.
Seite 135 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Seite 136 - Shall one by one be gathered to thy side, By those, who in their turn shall follow them. So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.