A History of American Literature, Volume 2G. P. Putnam, 1878 |
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Page 36
... things revealed , Put on the winged morn , and speed amain Where increate eternity's revealed ; Fancy thyself shot through the ethereal world , Translated from thy clay , amidst the seats Of highest angels , mighty seraphim , Of thrones ...
... things revealed , Put on the winged morn , and speed amain Where increate eternity's revealed ; Fancy thyself shot through the ethereal world , Translated from thy clay , amidst the seats Of highest angels , mighty seraphim , Of thrones ...
Page 37
... thing . Descend , my soul , to the Elysian bowers , The imaginary shades , where up and down The blessed ghosts do rove and pass the hours , In grateful pastimes till the eternal dawn . Trace every verdant grove , each flowery bank ...
... thing . Descend , my soul , to the Elysian bowers , The imaginary shades , where up and down The blessed ghosts do rove and pass the hours , In grateful pastimes till the eternal dawn . Trace every verdant grove , each flowery bank ...
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... things , and of doing them tolerably well , a knack that does not be- come intolerable , except when it thrusts itself , as it has a dangerous fondness for doing , into the sphere of poetry . Born in Windsor , Connecticut , in 1679 , in ...
... things , and of doing them tolerably well , a knack that does not be- come intolerable , except when it thrusts itself , as it has a dangerous fondness for doing , into the sphere of poetry . Born in Windsor , Connecticut , in 1679 , in ...
Page 46
... things could have been an improvement upon any sort of vacancy likely to occur in this good man's hours . For ourselves , we could have been content , had his hours remained vacant ; and putting our own interpretation on his words , we ...
... things could have been an improvement upon any sort of vacancy likely to occur in this good man's hours . For ourselves , we could have been content , had his hours remained vacant ; and putting our own interpretation on his words , we ...
Page 48
... things was the facetious one ; he was convivial and hilarious ; he loved to mitigate by his waggerics the sombre tints of life at the Puritan metropolis ; and neither religion nor death , it was be- lieved , could awe him into gravity ...
... things was the facetious one ; he was convivial and hilarious ; he loved to mitigate by his waggerics the sombre tints of life at the Puritan metropolis ; and neither religion nor death , it was be- lieved , could awe him into gravity ...
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