The Prose Writers of America: With a Survey of the Intellectual History, Condition, and Prospects of the CountryParry and Macmillan, 1856 - 552 páginas |
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... beautiful story of Philothea , in which she has so happily depicted Athenian society in the age of Pericles , is the only American romance of a kind in any degree similar . Mr. Ware's characters are finely discriminated and skilfully ...
... beautiful story of Philothea , in which she has so happily depicted Athenian society in the age of Pericles , is the only American romance of a kind in any degree similar . Mr. Ware's characters are finely discriminated and skilfully ...
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... beautiful , and taste , are apparent in almost every thing he has written . He has given us but little of a tender or romantic kind indeed , and less perhaps to show the possession of the inventive faculty . The Wife , The Broken Heart ...
... beautiful , and taste , are apparent in almost every thing he has written . He has given us but little of a tender or romantic kind indeed , and less perhaps to show the possession of the inventive faculty . The Wife , The Broken Heart ...
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... beautiful . He knew society , its selfishness , and its want of honour , but looked upon it less in anger than in sadness . Yet he was no cynic , no Heraclitus . He deemed it wisest to laugh at the follies of mankind . Through all his ...
... beautiful . He knew society , its selfishness , and its want of honour , but looked upon it less in anger than in sadness . Yet he was no cynic , no Heraclitus . He deemed it wisest to laugh at the follies of mankind . Through all his ...
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... beautiful seems instinctive , and the style of his criticisms is unaffected , flowing , and graceful . His Thoughts on the Poets contain passages which are the perfection of that sort of writing . He has manly sense , and tenderness ...
... beautiful seems instinctive , and the style of his criticisms is unaffected , flowing , and graceful . His Thoughts on the Poets contain passages which are the perfection of that sort of writing . He has manly sense , and tenderness ...
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... beautiful , he seemed of all men the least fitted for the great conflict in which he engaged . But He who , giving to Milton the Dorian reed , sent out his sera- phim to enrich him with utterance and know- ledge , with fire from the ...
... beautiful , he seemed of all men the least fitted for the great conflict in which he engaged . But He who , giving to Milton the Dorian reed , sent out his sera- phim to enrich him with utterance and know- ledge , with fire from the ...
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Página 78 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 186 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Página 63 - Friends," says he, and neighbours, "the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by 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...
Página 45 - They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names...
Página 214 - The name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice, all awakened a train of recollections in his mind. "What is your name, my good woman?
Página 214 - ... cocked hat made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle with one arm akimbo, the other resting on his cane, his keen eyes and sharp hat penetrating, as it were, into his very soul, demanded in an austere tone what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder and a mob at his heels, and whether he meant to breed a riot in the village. "Alas! gentlemen...
Página 214 - It was with great difficulty that the self-important man in the cocked hat restored order; and, having assumed a tenfold austerity of brow, demanded again of the unknown culprit, what he came there for and whom he was seeking. The poor man humbly assured him that he meant no harm, but merely came there in search of some of his neighbors who used to keep about the tavern. "Well, who are they? Name them.
Página 164 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Página 211 - He was after his favorite sport of squirrel shooting, and the still solitudes had echoed and reechoed with the reports of his gun. Panting and fatigued, he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll, covered with mountain herbage, that crowned the brow of a precipice.
Página 52 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools: There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.