Essays of American Essayists: Including Biographical and Critical Sketches, with a Special Introduction by Chauncey C. StarkweatherColonial Press, 1900 - 456 Seiten |
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... poets who came to swell the list ; they all wore the robe of the prophet and the teacher , even when dally- ing with lighter themes . It is well for our literature that the es- sayists have spoken . For whether one points to poetry or ...
... poets who came to swell the list ; they all wore the robe of the prophet and the teacher , even when dally- ing with lighter themes . It is well for our literature that the es- sayists have spoken . For whether one points to poetry or ...
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... poets hear above the world's turmoil . In spite of detraction he is safely enshrined in memory while poetry shall live . Young poets will always have tears and roses for his grave . And dreamy , inquisitve Hawthorne , probing and ...
... poets hear above the world's turmoil . In spite of detraction he is safely enshrined in memory while poetry shall live . Young poets will always have tears and roses for his grave . And dreamy , inquisitve Hawthorne , probing and ...
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... Poems , and systems of theology and philosophy , which have made some noise in the world , have been wrought at the work - bench and amidst the toils of the field . How often , when the arms are mechanically plying a trade , does the ...
... Poems , and systems of theology and philosophy , which have made some noise in the world , have been wrought at the work - bench and amidst the toils of the field . How often , when the arms are mechanically plying a trade , does the ...
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... . No commentary throws such a light on a great poem or any impassioned work of literature as the voice of a reader or speaker who brings to the task a deep feeling of his author and rich and various powers of expression . 58 CHANNING.
... . No commentary throws such a light on a great poem or any impassioned work of literature as the voice of a reader or speaker who brings to the task a deep feeling of his author and rich and various powers of expression . 58 CHANNING.
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... him ? What is quoted of Joseph of Exeter , styled the miracle of his age in classical com- position ? Of his three great heroic poems one is lost forever , excepting a mere fragment ; the others are known only 68 IRVING.
... him ? What is quoted of Joseph of Exeter , styled the miracle of his age in classical com- position ? Of his three great heroic poems one is lost forever , excepting a mere fragment ; the others are known only 68 IRVING.
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Seite 9 - Things, for they may all be blasted without the Blessing of Heaven; and therefore, ask that Blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember, Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
Seite 37 - God be thanked for books ! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
Seite 224 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Seite 170 - Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought.
Seite 224 - Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes; With everything that pretty bin : My lady sweet, arise! Arise! arise!
Seite 8 - When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Seite 225 - But who the melodies of morn can tell ? — The wild brook babbling down the mountain side ; The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley ; echoing far and wide, The clamorous horn along the cliffs above ; The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide ; The hum of bees ; the linnet's lay of love ; And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.
Seite 264 - 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," I said, "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 - I cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
Seite 248 - I am somewhat too fond of these great mercies, but also because I should have often brought to my mind the many hardships, miseries, and wants, that my poor family was like to meet with, should I be taken from them, especially my poor blind child, who lay nearer my heart than all beside. Oh ! the thoughts of the hardship I thought my poor blind one might go under, would break my heart to pieces.