American Literature ; an Historical Sketch, 1620-1880A. and C. Black, 1882 - 472 páginas |
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... thoughts and fancies that seem most conspicuously to display the leading features of their character . It has become a platitude to say that the developments of History and of Literature run in parallel lines ; but much of our education ...
... thoughts and fancies that seem most conspicuously to display the leading features of their character . It has become a platitude to say that the developments of History and of Literature run in parallel lines ; but much of our education ...
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... thought . He carried with him across the Atlantic a series of picturesque photographs of English cities , old and new , of bright young Leamington and rusty Warwick , of Lich- field market - place , of Norfolk Boston with its minster ...
... thought . He carried with him across the Atlantic a series of picturesque photographs of English cities , old and new , of bright young Leamington and rusty Warwick , of Lich- field market - place , of Norfolk Boston with its minster ...
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... thought and action they are constantly rushing into empty spaces . New York " Central Park , " and the largest streets , in the plan of Wash- ington , are on the outer verges of these cities . Emigration is the normal condition of a ...
... thought and action they are constantly rushing into empty spaces . New York " Central Park , " and the largest streets , in the plan of Wash- ington , are on the outer verges of these cities . Emigration is the normal condition of a ...
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... thought and leisure , to pour ridicule or laudation on either is easy ; consequently American , even more than English judgments , lean to the one or the other extreme . The satirists of the West are apt to play the part of clowns- the ...
... thought and leisure , to pour ridicule or laudation on either is easy ; consequently American , even more than English judgments , lean to the one or the other extreme . The satirists of the West are apt to play the part of clowns- the ...
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... thought . The other is most conspicuously developed in America , a country which is not only democratic , but youth- ful without the modesty of youth , unmellowed by the past , and untrammelled by authority ; where the spirit of ...
... thought . The other is most conspicuously developed in America , a country which is not only democratic , but youth- ful without the modesty of youth , unmellowed by the past , and untrammelled by authority ; where the spirit of ...
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Página 226 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, •An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Página 78 - And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
Página 223 - IN THE greenest of our valleys, By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace — Radiant palace — reared its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion — It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair.
Página 243 - He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat: Oh! be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Página 251 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Página 305 - They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Página 186 - All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Página 221 - In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I hesitate to draw a line Between the two, where God has not.
Página 254 - ... CHAMBERED 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. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl, — Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell...
Página 292 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.