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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... Mather - books reflecting the life and progress of a people - would imply a narrow and arbitrary defini- tion of literature . We would rather regard it as the record of life , work , and thought , than as the plaything of idle minds ...
... Mather - books reflecting the life and progress of a people - would imply a narrow and arbitrary defini- tion of literature . We would rather regard it as the record of life , work , and thought , than as the plaything of idle minds ...
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... Mather , in his Magnalia , says in his quaint manner : ' Our New England shall tell and boast of her Winthrop , a law- giver as patient as Lycurgus , but not admitting any of his criminal disorders ; as devout as Numa , but not liable ...
... Mather , in his Magnalia , says in his quaint manner : ' Our New England shall tell and boast of her Winthrop , a law- giver as patient as Lycurgus , but not admitting any of his criminal disorders ; as devout as Numa , but not liable ...
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... Mather of Dorchester . This version - the first book printed in the United States - was published at Cambridge in 1640. It was dry , literal , and unmusical in the extreme , reducing the songs of Sion to such doggrel as the following ...
... Mather of Dorchester . This version - the first book printed in the United States - was published at Cambridge in 1640. It was dry , literal , and unmusical in the extreme , reducing the songs of Sion to such doggrel as the following ...
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... MATHER AND HIS TIMES . 1663-1728 . COTTON MATHER FIRST PERIOD . - ROGER WILLIAMS . 11.
... MATHER AND HIS TIMES . 1663-1728 . COTTON MATHER FIRST PERIOD . - ROGER WILLIAMS . 11.
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... Mather and Franklin shews how great had been the progress of intelligence and freedom in the course of half a century ; or from the time when Mather accused witches and goblins of raising high winds and blowing down meeting - houses ...
... Mather and Franklin shews how great had been the progress of intelligence and freedom in the course of half a century ; or from the time when Mather accused witches and goblins of raising high winds and blowing down meeting - houses ...
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.