The Oxford Book of American EssaysBrander Matthews Oxford University Press, 1914 - 508 Seiten |
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... seems to exclude American authors from the noble roll of those who have contributed to the literature of our mother - tongue . Of course , when we consider it carefully we cannot fail to see that the literature of a lan- guage is one ...
... seems to exclude American authors from the noble roll of those who have contributed to the literature of our mother - tongue . Of course , when we consider it carefully we cannot fail to see that the literature of a lan- guage is one ...
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... seems that most of the unhappy peo- ple we meet with are 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 ...
... seems that most of the unhappy peo- ple we meet with are 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 ...
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... seem , Madam Gout , as if you might spare me a little , seeing it is not altogether my own fault . GOUT . Not a jot ; your rhetoric and your politeness are thrown away ; your apology avails nothing . If your situa- tion in life is a ...
... seem , Madam Gout , as if you might spare me a little , seeing it is not altogether my own fault . GOUT . Not a jot ; your rhetoric and your politeness are thrown away ; your apology avails nothing . If your situa- tion in life is a ...
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... seem tedious I shall not recount the adventures of our return - how we were caught in a thunderstorm - how our horse failed , by which we were benighted three miles from our stage - how my wife's panics returned — how Miss Jenny howled ...
... seem tedious I shall not recount the adventures of our return - how we were caught in a thunderstorm - how our horse failed , by which we were benighted three miles from our stage - how my wife's panics returned — how Miss Jenny howled ...
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... seem wonderfully captivated with the beau ideal which they have formed of John Bull , and endeavor to act up to the broad caricature that is perpetually before their eyes . Unluckily , they some- times make their boasted Bull - ism an ...
... seem wonderfully captivated with the beau ideal which they have formed of John Bull , and endeavor to act up to the broad caricature that is perpetually before their eyes . Unluckily , they some- times make their boasted Bull - ism an ...
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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...