The Oxford Book of American EssaysBrander Matthews Oxford University Press, 1914 - 508 Seiten |
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... never have set foot on the soil of Greece , and Thoreau never adventured himself on the Atlantic to visit the island- home of his ancestors ; yet the former expressed himself in Greek and the latter in English , -and how can either be ...
... never have set foot on the soil of Greece , and Thoreau never adventured himself on the Atlantic to visit the island- home of his ancestors ; yet the former expressed himself in Greek and the latter in English , -and how can either be ...
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... never stuck to his text , when he had one ; and the paragraphs of any of Emerson's essays might be shuffled without increasing their fortuitous discontinuity . After Montaigne and Bacon came Steele and Addison , in whose hands the essay ...
... never stuck to his text , when he had one ; and the paragraphs of any of Emerson's essays might be shuffled without increasing their fortuitous discontinuity . After Montaigne and Bacon came Steele and Addison , in whose hands the essay ...
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... never grave enough , how- ever , to be described as disquisitions . Finally , every se- lection is presented entire , except that Dana's paper on Kean's acting has been shorn of a needless preparatory note . BRANDER MATTHEWS . [ The ...
... never grave enough , how- ever , to be described as disquisitions . Finally , every se- lection is presented entire , except that Dana's paper on Kean's acting has been shorn of a needless preparatory note . BRANDER MATTHEWS . [ The ...
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... never takes any . FRANKLIN . I take - eh ! oh ! -as much exercise - eh ! - as I can , Madam Gout . You know my sedentary state , and on that account , it would seem , Madam Gout , as if you might spare me a little , seeing it is not ...
... never takes any . FRANKLIN . I take - eh ! oh ! -as much exercise - eh ! - as I can , Madam Gout . You know my sedentary state , and on that account , it would seem , Madam Gout , as if you might spare me a little , seeing it is not ...
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... 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 may be said you are ungrateful too . GOUT . I can scarcely acknowledge that as any objection . As to quacks , 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 may be said you are ungrateful too . GOUT . I can scarcely acknowledge that as any objection . As to quacks , I ...
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American artist beauty bees Cape Cod century character charm civilization colonial spirit comb honey Comédie Française course Dante delight door dreams effect English essay Europe fact fancy feel foreign FRANKLIN French friends genius George William Curtis give GOUT habit hand honey Horace human imagination individual intellectual John Bull Kean kind Lapierre House leaves less light literary literature live look Massachusetts ment mind Molière moral nation nature ness never Nevermore night once Paris pass passion perhaps persons play poem poet poetic politics present race rendering rich Sarah Bernhardt Sarcey seems sense Sicily society soul speak stanza struggle sure Théâtre Français Theocritus things thought tion tone tree true turn universal suffrage W. D. Howells walk whole wild woods word writing young
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Seite 5 - I then came home, 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 110 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou...
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 158 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
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 112 - ... however indefinite, of meaning. It is this latter, in especial, which imparts to a work of art so much of that richness (to borrow from colloquy a forcible term) which we are too fond of confounding with the ideal.
Seite 21 - AN old song made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman, who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate ; Like an old courtier of the queen's, And the queen's old courtier.
Seite 1 - We had been shown numberless skeletons of a kind of little fly, called an ephemera, whose successive generations, we were told, were bred and expired within the day. I happened to see a living company of them on a leaf, who appeared to be engaged in conversation.
Seite 203 - The poets of the kosmos advance through all interpositions and coverings and turmoils and stratagems to first principles. They are of use — they dissolve poverty from its need, and riches from its conceit. You large proprietor, they say, shall not realize or perceive more than any one else. The owner of the library is not he who holds a legal title to it, having bought and paid for it. Any one and every one is owner of the library...