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It is no longer true that the better class of novels minister to impure tastes , or are
calculated to give false views of life . Public sentiment will not tolerate any work
that is not free from immoral tendencies ; and although multitudes of weak and ...
It is no longer true that the better class of novels minister to impure tastes , or are
calculated to give false views of life . Public sentiment will not tolerate any work
that is not free from immoral tendencies ; and although multitudes of weak and ...
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It is especially true in Boston , and perhaps in other cities , that there is a
tendency , common to literary , pictorial , and musical art , as well as in the
manners and speech of “ society , " which controls the taste and shapes the
productions of the ...
It is especially true in Boston , and perhaps in other cities , that there is a
tendency , common to literary , pictorial , and musical art , as well as in the
manners and speech of “ society , " which controls the taste and shapes the
productions of the ...
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This is so true , that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are
ever seen to labor . And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we
have removed their only firm basis , a conviction in the minds of the people that ...
This is so true , that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are
ever seen to labor . And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we
have removed their only firm basis , a conviction in the minds of the people that ...
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WHEN Yankies , skill'd in martial rule , First put the British troops to school ;
Instructed them in warlike trade , And new manæuvres of parade ; The true war -
dance of Yanky reels , And manual exercise of heels ; Made them give up , like
saints ...
WHEN Yankies , skill'd in martial rule , First put the British troops to school ;
Instructed them in warlike trade , And new manæuvres of parade ; The true war -
dance of Yanky reels , And manual exercise of heels ; Made them give up , like
saints ...
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He was in the midst of the French revolution , and was constantly active with his
pen , not forgetting at any time the enterprise and thrift of the true Yankee in
accumulating property . On his return to the United States , in 1805 , he settled in
...
He was in the midst of the French revolution , and was constantly active with his
pen , not forgetting at any time the enterprise and thrift of the true Yankee in
accumulating property . On his return to the United States , in 1805 , he settled in
...
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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.
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| Titel | 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 Authors |
| Autor/in | Francis Henry Underwood |
| Verlag | Lee and Shepard, 1889 |
| Original von | Harvard University |
| Digitalisiert | 10. Apr. 2007 |
| Länge | 608 Seiten |
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