The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volumen1William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1917 - 678 páginas |
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Página viii
... note which every historian of a national literature should have in his ear : " There is but one thing more interesting than the intellectual history of a man , and that is the intellectual history of a nation . " If Tyler had been able ...
... note which every historian of a national literature should have in his ear : " There is but one thing more interesting than the intellectual history of a man , and that is the intellectual history of a nation . " If Tyler had been able ...
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... Notes on the State of Virginia . The Lewis and Clark Expedition . The Literary Wars between England and America . The Answers of Cooper and Irving . The Influence of the Travellers . The Travellers and Wordsworth . CHAPTER II THE EARLY ...
... Notes on the State of Virginia . The Lewis and Clark Expedition . The Literary Wars between England and America . The Answers of Cooper and Irving . The Influence of the Travellers . The Travellers and Wordsworth . CHAPTER II THE EARLY ...
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... note ; which I have purposely collected , to satisfie my friends of the true worth and qualitie of Virginia . " So John Smith wrote at the end of his " Description " of that colony published in 1612 . Yet some bad natures will not ...
... note ; which I have purposely collected , to satisfie my friends of the true worth and qualitie of Virginia . " So John Smith wrote at the end of his " Description " of that colony published in 1612 . Yet some bad natures will not ...
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... notes that a day I passed away , as many of our days do , unremarked and trifling . did little more than breakfast , dine and sup . I read some of Homer's twelfth Iliad , and went to the coffee - house in the after- noon . Back in ...
... notes that a day I passed away , as many of our days do , unremarked and trifling . did little more than breakfast , dine and sup . I read some of Homer's twelfth Iliad , and went to the coffee - house in the after- noon . Back in ...
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... Notes and Queries , London , 1890 , Seventh Series , vol . ix ; also American Historical Review , vol . iii , p . 737 . A series of letters by the Rev. Edward D. Neill and William Wirt Henry , beginning in the Richmond Dispatch , 12 ...
... Notes and Queries , London , 1890 , Seventh Series , vol . ix ; also American Historical Review , vol . iii , p . 737 . A series of letters by the Rev. Edward D. Neill and William Wirt Henry , beginning in the Richmond Dispatch , 12 ...
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Página 143 - These are the times that try men's souls : The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it Now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Página 128 - Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies, for the Purpose of Raising a Revenue by Act of Parliament.
Página 412 - Bonifacius ; an Essay upon the Good, that is to be devised and designed, by those who desire to answer the Great End of Life, and to do Good while they live.
Página 59 - Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Página 139 - ... we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored.
Página 61 - The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire...
Página 70 - All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it."— I did not push the subject any farther.
Página 357 - Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands. To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all.
Página 99 - STRAHAN, You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. — You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People. — Look upon your Hands! They are stained with the Blood of your Relations! — You and I were long Friends: — You are now my Enemy, — and I am Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
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