Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's MagazineA. Dowling, 1857 - 672 páginas |
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... character as any tree of Europe . Our maples far surpass those of England in size , while their autumnal tints are world - celebrated ; our ashes , beeches , and birches , are as stately and beauti- ful as any . Our basswood , or linden ...
... character as any tree of Europe . Our maples far surpass those of England in size , while their autumnal tints are world - celebrated ; our ashes , beeches , and birches , are as stately and beauti- ful as any . Our basswood , or linden ...
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... character , to her own beautiful village on the shores of the Otsego , we are a competent and will- ing witness to the accuracy and truth- fulness of the author's descriptions , while the healthy and cheerful senti- ment and literary ...
... character , to her own beautiful village on the shores of the Otsego , we are a competent and will- ing witness to the accuracy and truth- fulness of the author's descriptions , while the healthy and cheerful senti- ment and literary ...
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... character of the coun- tries he visits , and reproduce it in such a delightful manner , has no right to stay at home , except long enough to tell his story . The best poem among the long ones in the present volume , is " The Temptation ...
... character of the coun- tries he visits , and reproduce it in such a delightful manner , has no right to stay at home , except long enough to tell his story . The best poem among the long ones in the present volume , is " The Temptation ...
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... character of a popular preacher . His voice was so loud , that it could be heard at a great distance from the meeting - house , even amidst the shrieks of hysterical women , and the winds that howled over the plains of Nanset ; but ...
... character of a popular preacher . His voice was so loud , that it could be heard at a great distance from the meeting - house , even amidst the shrieks of hysterical women , and the winds that howled over the plains of Nanset ; but ...
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... character , not much can be said of him . [ Pity the devil did not plant a few shade trees along his avenues . ] His heart was as pure as the new - fallen snow , which completely covers every dark spot in a field ; his mind was as ...
... character , not much can be said of him . [ Pity the devil did not plant a few shade trees along his avenues . ] His heart was as pure as the new - fallen snow , which completely covers every dark spot in a field ; his mind was as ...
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Página 202 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Página 167 - The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Página 49 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Página 506 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim...
Página 524 - Here the free spirit of mankind at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race...
Página 448 - I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Página 8 - At last I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the summit, " Is there any hope ? " To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand ; And on the glimmering limit far withdrawn God made Himself an awful rose of dawn.
Página 249 - Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face.
Página 319 - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science In different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Página 472 - Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason. But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct...