A Short History of American LiteratureT. Fisher Unwin, 1906 - 291 Seiten |
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... Massachusetts were deci- mated by sickness and starvation , constantly threatened by Indian wars , and troubled by quarrels among them- selves and fears of disturbance from England . The 66 wrangles between the royal governors and the ...
... Massachusetts were deci- mated by sickness and starvation , constantly threatened by Indian wars , and troubled by quarrels among them- selves and fears of disturbance from England . The 66 wrangles between the royal governors and the ...
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... Massachusetts Bay , who had sailed two years before . Sir Henry Vane , the younger , who was afterward Milton's friend- " Vane , young in years , but in sage counsel old " -- came over in 1635 , and was for a short time governor of ...
... Massachusetts Bay , who had sailed two years before . Sir Henry Vane , the younger , who was afterward Milton's friend- " Vane , young in years , but in sage counsel old " -- came over in 1635 , and was for a short time governor of ...
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... Massachusetts . The college of William and Mary was established at Williamsburg chiefly by the exertions of the Rev. James Blair , a Scotch divine , who was sent by the Bishop of London as commissary " to the church in Vir- ginia . The ...
... Massachusetts . The college of William and Mary was established at Williamsburg chiefly by the exertions of the Rev. James Blair , a Scotch divine , who was sent by the Bishop of London as commissary " to the church in Vir- ginia . The ...
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... Massachusetts , and one from New Haven . They were not suffered to preach , but many resorted to them in private houses , until , being finally driven out by fines and imprisonments , they took refuge in Catholic Maryland . The Virginia ...
... Massachusetts , and one from New Haven . They were not suffered to preach , but many resorted to them in private houses , until , being finally driven out by fines and imprisonments , they took refuge in Catholic Maryland . The Virginia ...
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... Massachusetts Bay , and the Puritans must have been rather unpleasant people to live with for persons of a different way of thinking . But their intensity of character , their respect for learning , and the heroic mood which sustained ...
... Massachusetts Bay , and the Puritans must have been rather unpleasant people to live with for persons of a different way of thinking . But their intensity of character , their respect for learning , and the heroic mood which sustained ...
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Seite 44 - waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Seite 255 - TEAE her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck, once red with heroes...
Seite 151 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Seite 239 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Seite 256 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer...
Seite 102 - Standing on the bare ground - my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
Seite 226 - And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
Seite 111 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Seite 242 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Seite 245 - IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; Here might the redbird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array.