Hand-book of American literature, historical, biographical, and critical [by J. Gostwick. The title-leaf is a cancel].Kennikat Press, 1856 - 319 Seiten |
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Joseph Gostwick. PREFACE . A SERIES of Hand - books intended to give a concise account of modern literature , must be incomplete without some brief review of books published in the United States . Many of the lighter productions of ...
Joseph Gostwick. PREFACE . A SERIES of Hand - books intended to give a concise account of modern literature , must be incomplete without some brief review of books published in the United States . Many of the lighter productions of ...
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... give the following passage , because it cannot be fairly regarded as the complaint of an unsuccessful author . The writer has been chiefly engaged in reviewing and editing the works of his countrymen , and has been comparatively well ...
... give the following passage , because it cannot be fairly regarded as the complaint of an unsuccessful author . The writer has been chiefly engaged in reviewing and editing the works of his countrymen , and has been comparatively well ...
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... give specimens of the crude diction used by many of the old colonists who wrote diaries of public and private transactions , would serve no good purpose . To indicate the fact , that America possesses a rich store of annals of her early ...
... give specimens of the crude diction used by many of the old colonists who wrote diaries of public and private transactions , would serve no good purpose . To indicate the fact , that America possesses a rich store of annals of her early ...
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... gives merely concise references to books and manuscripts which very few readers can possess . There is here and there an unstudied graphic force in the notes of the old chroniclers , which even the accomplished historian can hardly ...
... gives merely concise references to books and manuscripts which very few readers can possess . There is here and there an unstudied graphic force in the notes of the old chroniclers , which even the accomplished historian can hardly ...
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... give specimens of his quaint and rugged style , would be useless : our purpose is to give the spirit of his life and writings . He was born in 1599 , or about that time , and it is supposed that Wales was his native land . During youth ...
... give specimens of his quaint and rugged style , would be useless : our purpose is to give the spirit of his life and writings . He was born in 1599 , or about that time , and it is supposed that Wales was his native land . During youth ...
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Seite 55 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Seite 94 - thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Seite 61 - She wore no funeral weeds for thee, Nor bade the dark hearse wave its plume, Like torn branch from death's leafless tree, In sorrow's pomp and pageantry. The heartless luxury of the tomb. But she remembers thee as one Long loved, and for a season gone. For thee her poet's lyre is wreathed, Her marble wrought, her music breathed; For thee she rings the birthday bells; Of thee her babes' first lisping tells; For thine her evening prayer is said At palace couch and cottage bed.
Seite 88 - IT was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Seite 56 - 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 92 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Seite 137 - To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
Seite 78 - We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time.
Seite 139 - In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and...
Seite 69 - As when the Northern skies Gleam in December; And, like the water's flow Under December's snow, Came a dull voice of woe From the heart's chamber.