Initial Studies in American LettersFlood and Vincent, 1895 - 291 pages |
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... universal currency among a people like the Puritans . One stanza has been often quoted for its grim concession to unregenerate infants of " the easiest room in hell " —a limbus infantum which even Origen need not have scrupled at . The ...
... universal currency among a people like the Puritans . One stanza has been often quoted for its grim concession to unregenerate infants of " the easiest room in hell " —a limbus infantum which even Origen need not have scrupled at . The ...
Page 43
... universal and permanent , explains why so few speeches are really litera- ture . If this is true , even where the words of an orator are preserved exactly as they were spoken , it is doubly true when we have only the testimony of ...
... universal and permanent , explains why so few speeches are really litera- ture . If this is true , even where the words of an orator are preserved exactly as they were spoken , it is doubly true when we have only the testimony of ...
Page 86
... universal love of a story is perennial . We devour them when we are boys , and if we do not often return to them when we are men , that is perhaps only because we have read them before , and " know the ending . " They are good yarns for ...
... universal love of a story is perennial . We devour them when we are boys , and if we do not often return to them when we are men , that is perhaps only because we have read them before , and " know the ending . " They are good yarns for ...
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... universal in their appeal take their place in literature . But of such detachable passages there are happily many in Webster's orations . One great thought underlay all his public life , the thought of the Union - of American nation ...
... universal in their appeal take their place in literature . But of such detachable passages there are happily many in Webster's orations . One great thought underlay all his public life , the thought of the Union - of American nation ...
Page 96
... universal in- quiry and experiment , which marked the third and fourth decades of this century in America , and especially in New England . The movement was contemporary with polit- ical revolutions in Europe and with the preaching of ...
... universal in- quiry and experiment , which marked the third and fourth decades of this century in America , and especially in New England . The movement was contemporary with polit- ical revolutions in Europe and with the preaching of ...
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Page 187 - My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is...
Page 241 - 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.
Page 153 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page 161 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Page 46 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
Page 244 - 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.
Page 160 - The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sun-flower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland, glade, and glen.
Page 247 - 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.
Page 40 - Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. Thus, if you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.
Page 234 - Sir, let me recur to pleasing recollections; let me indulge in refreshing remembrance of the past; let me remind you that in early times no states cherished greater harmony, both of principle and feeling, than Massachusetts and South Carolina. Would to God that harmony might again return ! Shoulder to shoulder they went through the Revolution; hand in hand they stood round the administration of Washington, and felt his own great arm lean on them for support.