The Oxford Book of American EssaysOxford University Press, 1914 - 508 Seiten |
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... for the benefit of our race in general ! for in politics what can laws do without morals ? Our present race of ephemera will in a course of minutes become corrupt . like those of other and older bushes , and consequently 2 AMERICAN ESSAYS.
... for the benefit of our race in general ! for in politics what can laws do without morals ? Our present race of ephemera will in a course of minutes become corrupt . like those of other and older bushes , and consequently 2 AMERICAN ESSAYS.
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... become of all history in the eighteenth hour , when the world itself , even the whole Moulin Joly , shall come to its end and be buried in universal ruin ? " To me , after all my eager pursuits , no solid pleasures now remain , but the ...
... become of all history in the eighteenth hour , when the world itself , even the whole Moulin Joly , shall come to its end and be buried in universal ruin ? " To me , after all my eager pursuits , no solid pleasures now remain , but the ...
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... become so by neglect of that caution . You ask what I mean ? You love stories , and will ex- cuse my telling one of myself . When I was a child of seven years old , my friends , on a holiday , filled my pocket with coppers . I went ...
... become so by neglect of that caution . You ask what I mean ? You love stories , and will ex- cuse my telling one of myself . When I was a child of seven years old , my friends , on a holiday , filled my pocket with coppers . I went ...
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... become a per- fect master at boxing and cudgel - play , he has had a trouble- some life of it ever since . He cannot hear of a quarrel between the most distant of his neighbors , but he begins incontinently to fumble with the head of ...
... become a per- fect master at boxing and cudgel - play , he has had a trouble- some life of it ever since . He cannot hear of a quarrel between the most distant of his neighbors , but he begins incontinently to fumble with the head of ...
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... become one of the most spacious , rambling tene- ments imaginable . An entire wing is taken up with the family chapel , a reverend pile , that must have been exceed- ingly sumptuous , and , indeed , in spite of having been altered and ...
... become one of the most spacious , rambling tene- ments imaginable . An entire wing is taken up with the family chapel , a reverend pile , that must have been exceed- ingly sumptuous , and , indeed , in spite of having been altered and ...
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American appear artist beauty bees called Cape Cod catalectic century character charm civilization colonial spirit Comédie Française delight door dreams earth effect English euphuism Europe eyes fact fancy feel FRANKLIN French friends genius give GOUT habit hand head heart heroes honey Horace human imagination individual intellectual John Bull Kean kind leaves less literary literature live look Massachusetts ment mind Molière moral Nathaniel Hawthorne nation nature ness never Nevermore night once pass passion perhaps persons play poem poet poetical politics present race RALPH WALDO EMERSON rich Sarah Bernhardt seems sense Sicily society soul speak stand stanza sure Théâtre Français Theocritus things thought tion tone tree true truth turn universal suffrage W. D. Howells walk whistle whole wild woods word young
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Seite 110 - 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!
Seite 112 - Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Seite 110 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not...
Seite 106 - When it most closely allies itself to Beauty; the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world...
Seite 141 - He touched the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay: And now the sun had stretched out all the hills, And now was dropt into the western bay. At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue : To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.
Seite 6 - ... said I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle.
Seite 4 - I then came home, 10 and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Seite 128 - I WISH to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil, — to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.
Seite 34 - I know that all beneath the moon decays. And what by mortals in this world is brought, In time's great period shall return to nought. l know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise.
Seite 56 - Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.