The Oxford Book of American EssaysOxford University Press, 1914 - 508 Seiten |
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... moral force is a positive good . It goes out from you , whether you will or not , and profits me whom you never thought of . I cannot even hear of personal vigor of any kind , great power of performance , without fresh resolution . We ...
... moral force is a positive good . It goes out from you , whether you will or not , and profits me whom you never thought of . I cannot even hear of personal vigor of any kind , great power of performance , without fresh resolution . We ...
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... At bed and table they lord it o'er us , With looks of beauty , and words of good . " How to illustrate the distinctive benefit of ideas , the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the 78 AMERICAN ESSAYS.
... At bed and table they lord it o'er us , With looks of beauty , and words of good . " How to illustrate the distinctive benefit of ideas , the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the 78 AMERICAN ESSAYS.
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Brander Matthews. service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the general mind ? —I am plagued , in all my living , with a perpetual tariff of prices . If I work in my garden and prune an apple - tree , I am well enough ...
Brander Matthews. service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the general mind ? —I am plagued , in all my living , with a perpetual tariff of prices . If I work in my garden and prune an apple - tree , I am well enough ...
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... moral elevations of her husband . But we stop where they stop . Very hardly can we take another step . The great , or such as hold of nature , and transcend fashions , by their fidelity to universal ideas , are saviors from these ...
... moral elevations of her husband . But we stop where they stop . Very hardly can we take another step . The great , or such as hold of nature , and transcend fashions , by their fidelity to universal ideas , are saviors from these ...
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... moral winter of man's heart ? There have been no tempestuous rains - even no sultry days - but a constant breath of south- ern winds , with now a day of kindly sunshine , and now a no less kindly mist , or a soft descent of showers , in ...
... moral winter of man's heart ? There have been no tempestuous rains - even no sultry days - but a constant breath of south- ern winds , with now a day of kindly sunshine , and now a no less kindly mist , or a soft descent of showers , in ...
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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.