An Outline Sketch of American LiteratureChautauqua Press, 1887 - 287 pages |
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Page 8
... interest . There would seem to be something in the relation of a colony to the mother country which dooms the thought and art of the former to a hopeless pro- vincialism . Canada and Australia are great prov- inces , wealthier and more ...
... interest . There would seem to be something in the relation of a colony to the mother country which dooms the thought and art of the former to a hopeless pro- vincialism . Canada and Australia are great prov- inces , wealthier and more ...
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... Captain Smith's writings have small literary value apart from the interest of the events which they describe , and the diverting but forcible per- sonality which they unconsciously display . They are the rough THE COLONIAL PERIOD . 15.
... Captain Smith's writings have small literary value apart from the interest of the events which they describe , and the diverting but forcible per- sonality which they unconsciously display . They are the rough THE COLONIAL PERIOD . 15.
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... interest of Winthrop's Journal lies in the events that it records rather than in any charm in the historian's manner of recording them . His style is pragmatic , and some of the incidents which he gravely notes are 28 AMERICAN LITERATURE .
... interest of Winthrop's Journal lies in the events that it records rather than in any charm in the historian's manner of recording them . His style is pragmatic , and some of the incidents which he gravely notes are 28 AMERICAN LITERATURE .
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... interest from history . Pure literature , or what , for want of a better term we call belles lettres , was not born in America until the nineteenth century was well under way . It is true that the Revolution had its humor , its poetry ...
... interest from history . Pure literature , or what , for want of a better term we call belles lettres , was not born in America until the nineteenth century was well under way . It is true that the Revolution had its humor , its poetry ...
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... interest to the American people are such State documents as the Declaration of Indepen- dence , the Constitution of the United States , and the messages , inaugural addresses , and other writ- ings of our early presidents . Thomas ...
... interest to the American people are such State documents as the Declaration of Indepen- dence , the Constitution of the United States , and the messages , inaugural addresses , and other writ- ings of our early presidents . Thomas ...
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Page 13 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Page 56 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page 193 - 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 203 - 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 135 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Page 203 - 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 56 - 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 99 - As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so...
Page 49 - 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 207 - Did we dare, In our agony of prayer, Ask for more than he has done? When was ever His right hand Over any time or land Stretched as now beneath the sun?