Hand-book of American literature, historical, biographical, and critical [by J. Gostwick. The title-leaf is a cancel].Kennikat Press, 1856 - 319 páginas |
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... Boston , died ( 1652 ) , a versifier wrote a eulogy which might have suggested Franklin's epitaph upon himself . The eulogist regards Cotton as a book , and says— ' O what a monument of glorious worth , When in a new edition he comes ...
... Boston , died ( 1652 ) , a versifier wrote a eulogy which might have suggested Franklin's epitaph upon himself . The eulogist regards Cotton as a book , and says— ' O what a monument of glorious worth , When in a new edition he comes ...
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... Boston and embark ; and when he had refused to obey , officers entered his house to enforce the order ; but Williams had mean- while escaped into the wilderness . Through the deep snow and the bitter cold , he wandered from his home ...
... Boston and embark ; and when he had refused to obey , officers entered his house to enforce the order ; but Williams had mean- while escaped into the wilderness . Through the deep snow and the bitter cold , he wandered from his home ...
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... Boston February 12 , 1663. His mother was the daughter of John Cotton , an eminent minister of Boston . His first ancestor , Richard Mather , settled in New England in 1 Published in the London Athenæum . 1635 , and was pastor of the ...
... Boston February 12 , 1663. His mother was the daughter of John Cotton , an eminent minister of Boston . His first ancestor , Richard Mather , settled in New England in 1 Published in the London Athenæum . 1635 , and was pastor of the ...
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... Boston . In 1690 , he received the diploma of Doctor of Divinity from the university of Glasgow ; and in 1713 , was made a Fellow of the Royal Society . His biographers have stated that he wrote in seven languages ; but this must be ...
... Boston . In 1690 , he received the diploma of Doctor of Divinity from the university of Glasgow ; and in 1713 , was made a Fellow of the Royal Society . His biographers have stated that he wrote in seven languages ; but this must be ...
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... Boston ; and both father and son were left in their astonishment . The fact that their own ambition could not , in this instance , be gratified , appeared inconceivable . Cotton Mather's writings are full of uncouth puns : in his taste ...
... Boston ; and both father and son were left in their astonishment . The fact that their own ambition could not , in this instance , be gratified , appeared inconceivable . Cotton Mather's writings are full of uncouth puns : in his taste ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Hand-book of American Literature, Historical, Biographical and Critical Joseph Gostwick Vista de fragmentos - 1971 |
Hand-Book of American Literature, Historical, Biographical, and Critical ... Joseph Gostwick Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
Hand-Book of American Literature, Historical, Biographical, and Critical Joseph Gostwick,Margaret E. Foster Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.