American Literature ; an Historical Sketch, 1620-1880A. and C. Black, 1882 - 472 Seiten |
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... - tions relating to the earlier periods on the one hand , to recent poets and novelists on the other - seemed requisite that , with the exception of three chapters , I have recast the b whole book . It now claims to convey a fair.
... - tions relating to the earlier periods on the one hand , to recent poets and novelists on the other - seemed requisite that , with the exception of three chapters , I have recast the b whole book . It now claims to convey a fair.
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... hand , are , for the most part , impossible to please . Ordinary men among them are as sensitive to foreign , and above all to British , censure as the " irritabile genus " of other lands . Their second and third rate authors , reared ...
... hand , are , for the most part , impossible to please . Ordinary men among them are as sensitive to foreign , and above all to British , censure as the " irritabile genus " of other lands . Their second and third rate authors , reared ...
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... hand ; " of the adventurer who fears the desert or the swamp as little as he dreads Mather's witches or the goblins of Scandinavia . For its best vitality and aspira- tions , its scant performance and large promise , we must turn to New ...
... hand ; " of the adventurer who fears the desert or the swamp as little as he dreads Mather's witches or the goblins of Scandinavia . For its best vitality and aspira- tions , its scant performance and large promise , we must turn to New ...
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... hand , it is the extent of Nature that is ever present to the mind - the infinity of space rather than the infinity of time is opposed to the restricted , rather than to the transient , exist- ence of man . Nothing strikes a traveller ...
... hand , it is the extent of Nature that is ever present to the mind - the infinity of space rather than the infinity of time is opposed to the restricted , rather than to the transient , exist- ence of man . Nothing strikes a traveller ...
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... an original thinker , as Carlyle . On the other hand , they swallow , in larger doses even than we , such popular platitudes as those of A. K. H. B. and Tupper . ENGLISH INFLUENCE . 27 sciously to those affected , by 26 AMERICAN LITERATURE.
... an original thinker , as Carlyle . On the other hand , they swallow , in larger doses even than we , such popular platitudes as those of A. K. H. B. and Tupper . ENGLISH INFLUENCE . 27 sciously to those affected , by 26 AMERICAN LITERATURE.
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Seite 188 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods — rivers that move * In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Seite 80 - And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
Seite 199 - Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say, "Peace !" Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies ! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.
Seite 219 - IN THE greenest of our valleys, By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace — Radiant palace — reared its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion — It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair.
Seite 247 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Seite 301 - They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Seite 239 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Seite 213 - RECONCILIATION WORD over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost, That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin — I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.
Seite 224 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Seite 250 - This is the ship of pearl, which poets feign Sails the unshadowed main, The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings, In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.