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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... thousand years ; the Spaniards have spread it over their part of America ; and it has lately begun to make its appearance in the United States . It is so interesting in itself as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it ...
... thousand years ; the Spaniards have spread it over their part of America ; and it has lately begun to make its appearance in the United States . It is so interesting in itself as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it ...
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... thousand volumes of us shut up here , and watched by a set of old vergers , like so many beauties in a harem , merely to be looked at now and then by the dean ? Books were written to give pleasure and to be enjoyed ; and I would have a ...
... thousand volumes of us shut up here , and watched by a set of old vergers , like so many beauties in a harem , merely to be looked at now and then by the dean ? Books were written to give pleasure and to be enjoyed ; and I would have a ...
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... thousand volumes ; legions of authors at the same time busy ; and the press going on with activity , to double and quadruple the number . Unless some unforeseen mortality should break out among the progeny of the Muse , now that she has ...
... thousand volumes ; legions of authors at the same time busy ; and the press going on with activity , to double and quadruple the number . Unless some unforeseen mortality should break out among the progeny of the Muse , now that she has ...
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... thousand copies . Scott was not in great haste to follow up his success . It was three years later before he took the field as an independent author , in a poem which at once placed him among the great original writers of his country ...
... thousand copies . Scott was not in great haste to follow up his success . It was three years later before he took the field as an independent author , in a poem which at once placed him among the great original writers of his country ...
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... thousand copies of it have been sold since the date of its appearance . The successful author realized more than two thousand guineas from his production . Milton received ten pounds for the two editions which he lived to see of his ...
... thousand copies of it have been sold since the date of its appearance . The successful author realized more than two thousand guineas from his production . Milton received ten pounds for the two editions which he lived to see of his ...
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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.