The Oxford Book of American EssaysOxford University Press, 1914 - 508 Seiten |
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... better fitted to shine as an essayist than his more ponderous contemporary , Dr. Johnson ; cer- tainly Franklin would never have " made little fishes talk like whales . " And in the nineteenth century the American branch of English ...
... better fitted to shine as an essayist than his more ponderous contemporary , Dr. Johnson ; cer- tainly Franklin would never have " made little fishes talk like whales . " And in the nineteenth century the American branch of English ...
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... better die than be cured so dole- fully . Permit me just to hint , that I have also not been unfriendly to you . I never feed physician or quack of any kind , to enter the list against you ; if then you do not leave me to my repose , it ...
... better die than be cured so dole- fully . Permit me just to hint , that I have also not been unfriendly to you . I never feed physician or quack of any kind , to enter the list against you ; if then you do not leave me to my repose , it ...
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... broke in the fall , and the aforesaid wire - cap lay soaking in a nasty mudpuddle - grievous lamentations over the wire - cap - all my fault because I did not tie it better- no remedy - no wire - caps to be bought 18 AMERICAN ESSAYS.
... broke in the fall , and the aforesaid wire - cap lay soaking in a nasty mudpuddle - grievous lamentations over the wire - cap - all my fault because I did not tie it better- no remedy - no wire - caps to be bought 18 AMERICAN ESSAYS.
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... better you are off than most books of your generation . By being stored away in this ancient library , you are like the treasured remains of those saints and monarchs , which lie enshrined in the adjoining chapels ; while the remains of ...
... better you are off than most books of your generation . By being stored away in this ancient library , you are like the treasured remains of those saints and monarchs , which lie enshrined in the adjoining chapels ; while the remains of ...
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... better than a mere walking catalogue . " " My very good sir , " said the little quarto , yawning most drearily in my face , " excuse my interrupting you , but I perceive you are rather given to prose . I would ask the fate of an author ...
... better than a mere walking catalogue . " " My very good sir , " said the little quarto , yawning most drearily in my face , " excuse my interrupting you , but I perceive you are rather given to prose . I would ask the fate of an author ...
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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.