Literary Masterpieces: Franklin: Irving: Bryant: Webster: Everett: Longfellow: Hawthorne: Whittier: Emerson: Holmes: Lowell: Poe: Henry: Wirt: Johnson: Timrod: Lanier: TabbHoughton, Mifflin, 1904 - 433 páginas |
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... voice , the rendering flexible the organs of speech and securing precision in their action may receive due attention without much regard to the meaning of the exercises used in practice . But to gain the ability to read well orally to ...
... voice , the rendering flexible the organs of speech and securing precision in their action may receive due attention without much regard to the meaning of the exercises used in practice . But to gain the ability to read well orally to ...
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... voice from a distance , hallooing , " Rip Van Winkle ! Rip Van Winkle ! " He looked round , but could see nothing but a crow winging its solitary flight across the moun- tain . He thought his fancy must have deceived him , and turned ...
... voice from a distance , hallooing , " Rip Van Winkle ! Rip Van Winkle ! " He looked round , but could see nothing but a crow winging its solitary flight across the moun- tain . He thought his fancy must have deceived him , and turned ...
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... voice of Dame Van Winkle . He found the house gone to decay the roof fallen in , the windows shattered , and the doors off the kinges . A half - starved dog that - looked like Wolf was skulking about it . Rip called RIP VAN WINKLE . 21.
... voice of Dame Van Winkle . He found the house gone to decay the roof fallen in , the windows shattered , and the doors off the kinges . A half - starved dog that - looked like Wolf was skulking about it . Rip called RIP VAN WINKLE . 21.
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... voice , and then again all was silence . - He now hurried forth , and hastened to his old re- sort , the village inn- but it , too , was gone . A large , rickety wooden building stood in its place , with great gaping windows , some of ...
... voice , and then again all was silence . - He now hurried forth , and hastened to his old re- sort , the village inn- but it , too , was gone . A large , rickety wooden building stood in its place , with great gaping windows , some of ...
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... voice : " Nicholas Ved- der ? why , he is dead and gone these eighteen years ! There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about him , but that's rotten and gone too . " “ Where ' s Brom Dutcher ? " “ Oh , he ...
... voice : " Nicholas Ved- der ? why , he is dead and gone these eighteen years ! There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about him , but that's rotten and gone too . " “ Where ' s Brom Dutcher ? " “ Oh , he ...
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Acadian Almanac American battle beauty behold beneath blessing born Boston Bunker Hill Monument called character cloud dark death door England English Ernest Evangeline eyes father feeling forest Gathergold gave gazed give gleam Grand-Pré gray hand Hawthorne head heard heart heaven Holy Grail human idle Indian JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER labor Ligeia light lips lived look Lowell maiden manners ment mind morning mountain Nathaniel Hawthorne nature neighbor never Nevermore night o'er patriotism peace Phiz poems poet poetry Poor Richard says POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC prophecy published Rip Van Winkle river rock round seemed shadow shore silence Sir Launfal SKETCH smile song soul sound spirit Stone Face stood story sweet thee things thou thought tion toil told Twice-Told Tales valley village Virginia voice whole wind wonder words
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Página 350 - Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Página 39 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which 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.
Página 354 - 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!
Página 353 - This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore ! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch...
Página 37 - 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.
Página 356 - DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
Página 349 - This it is and nothing more." Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door: — Darkness there and nothing more.
Página 76 - NAUTILUS This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Página 38 - To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share and treads upon : the oak Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mould.
Página 351 - For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as 'Nevermore.