A Compendium of American Literature, Chronologically Arranged: With Biographical Sketches of the AuthorsJ.A. Bancroft, 1865 - 784 pages |
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... SOON after the publication of my " English Literature of the Nineteenth Century , " - seven years ago , the publishers announced the present work ; and in about a year after , nearly half of it was done . But I found that , with the ...
... SOON after the publication of my " English Literature of the Nineteenth Century , " - seven years ago , the publishers announced the present work ; and in about a year after , nearly half of it was done . But I found that , with the ...
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... soon made himself master of the business , while he employed all his leisure time and his evenings to the improvement of his English style , by reading the best books he could find , among which , happily , was Addison's Spectator , to ...
... soon made himself master of the business , while he employed all his leisure time and his evenings to the improvement of his English style , by reading the best books he could find , among which , happily , was Addison's Spectator , to ...
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... soon he obtained a situation in a printing - house in Bartholomew Close , where he worked a year . He soon gained a high character for temperance and industry among his fellow - workmen , and began to be favor- ably noticed , when he ...
... soon he obtained a situation in a printing - house in Bartholomew Close , where he worked a year . He soon gained a high character for temperance and industry among his fellow - workmen , and began to be favor- ably noticed , when he ...
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... soon diverted from them by the demands made upon his time by the public , who seemed to think that no project for the public good deserved to be supported unless Franklin was interested in it . Accordingly , he felt it his duty to aid ...
... soon diverted from them by the demands made upon his time by the public , who seemed to think that no project for the public good deserved to be supported unless Franklin was interested in it . Accordingly , he felt it his duty to aid ...
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... soon made Governor of Pennsylvania , and then elected delegate to the Federal Convention of 1787 , for framing the Con- stitution of the United States ; and in the discussions upon it he bore a distin- guished part . After the ...
... soon made Governor of Pennsylvania , and then elected delegate to the Federal Convention of 1787 , for framing the Con- stitution of the United States ; and in the discussions upon it he bore a distin- guished part . After the ...
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Page 625 - Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll!
Page 380 - When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one, as before, will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 52 - THOUGH, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects, not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend.
Page 51 - It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric ? Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that...
Page 269 - I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Page 410 - 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.
Page 639 - And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me— filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, " 'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door: Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door: This it is and nothing more.
Page 269 - It is to that union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit. Under its benign influences, these great interests immediately awoke, as from the dead, and sprang forth with newness of...
Page 625 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 504 - I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon — Her health! and would on earth there stood Some more of such a frame, That life might be all poetry, And weariness a name.