American Literature: A Textbook for Secondary SchoolsGinn, 1923 - 462 Seiten |
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... feeling for or against the people about whom the ballad centers . 2 An epic is a poetical account of great events carried out by heroic and sometimes supernatural characters and dealing with the national or religious interests of a ...
... feeling for or against the people about whom the ballad centers . 2 An epic is a poetical account of great events carried out by heroic and sometimes supernatural characters and dealing with the national or religious interests of a ...
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... feeling which had been almost extin- guished in the seventeenth century . SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY AND CLASS DISCUSSION 1. Do you know of any laws now existing that are only partially enforced or are wholly disregarded though they have not ...
... feeling which had been almost extin- guished in the seventeenth century . SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY AND CLASS DISCUSSION 1. Do you know of any laws now existing that are only partially enforced or are wholly disregarded though they have not ...
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... feeling for America as a member of the great world family he was a hundred years and more ahead of his country- men . The new marshaling of forces in 1917 which brought about the celebration of the Fourth of July in London and the ...
... feeling for America as a member of the great world family he was a hundred years and more ahead of his country- men . The new marshaling of forces in 1917 which brought about the celebration of the Fourth of July in London and the ...
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... feeling . We can look to Freneau's own words ( journalistic ones again ) for an explana- tion of the new and native quality of his later verse ; they are called " Literary Importation , " and they conclude as follows : 1 A lyric is a ...
... feeling . We can look to Freneau's own words ( journalistic ones again ) for an explana- tion of the new and native quality of his later verse ; they are called " Literary Importation , " and they conclude as follows : 1 A lyric is a ...
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... feeling that America should be different , the tendency grew to seek out native subject matter and to avoid imitation of English literary models . For the next half century American authors were saying , every now and then , that they ...
... feeling that America should be different , the tendency grew to seek out native subject matter and to avoid imitation of English literary models . For the next half century American authors were saying , every now and then , that they ...
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American literature Anne Bradstreet Bay Psalm Book beauty Biglow Papers born Boston BOYNTON Bryant century CHAPTER OUTLINE character Chronological Outlines Church CLASS DISCUSSION colonial Concord Cooper Cotton Mather Crèvecœur criticism death died early Emerson England English essay fact father feeling Francis Hopkinson Franklin Freneau friends Ginn and Company Harvard Hawthorne Holmes Howells Irving Irving's Joaquin Miller John Trumbull Lanier later literary lived Longfellow Lowell Lowell's MACALARNEY Magazine Mark Twain Massachusetts Milestones in American mind Nathaniel Ward nature novels passages period of authorship Philip Freneau plays Poe's poems poet poetic poetry popular prose published Puritan reader rime Samuel Sewall Sarah Kemble Knight Song Stedman story STUDY AND CLASS SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY theater things Thoreau thought tion verse Washington Irving Whitman Whittier William William Dean Howells words writing written wrote York young youth
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Seite 60 - ... our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.
Seite 149 - 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 152 - To catch thy gaze, and uttering graceful words To charm thy ear; while his sly imps, by stealth, Twine round thee threads of steel, light thread on thread That grow to fetters; or bind down thy arms With chains concealed in chaplets. Oh ! not yet Mayst thou unbrace thy corslet, nor lay by Thy sword ; nor yet, O Freedom ! close thy lids In slumber ; for thine enemy never sleeps, And thou must watch and combat till the day Of the new earth and heaven.
Seite 72 - He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds.
Seite 134 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Seite 353 - Oh, what is abroad in the marsh and the terminal sea ? Somehow my soul seems suddenly free From the weighing of fate and the sad discussion of sin, By the length and the breadth and the sweep of the marshes of Glynn.
Seite 353 - As the marsh-hen secretly builds on the watery sod, Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God: I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies: By so many roots as the marsh-grass sends in the sod I will heartily lay me a-hold on the greatness of God...
Seite 328 - Have the elder races halted? Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas? We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson, Pioneers! O pioneers!
Seite 212 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Seite 396 - Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines!