Initial Studies in American LettersChautauqua Press, 1891 - 282 pages This volume is intended as a companion to the historical sketch of English literature entitled From Chaucer to Tennyson published last year for the Chautauqua Circle. |
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... things which seem stimulating to the imagina- tion , and incidents and experiences which might have lent themselves easily ... thing but pict- uresque , filled with grim , hard , work - day realities . The planters both of Virginia and ...
... things which seem stimulating to the imagina- tion , and incidents and experiences which might have lent themselves easily ... thing but pict- uresque , filled with grim , hard , work - day realities . The planters both of Virginia and ...
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... of the original promoters of the Virginia colony , and he made voyages in person to New- foundland and Guiana . And more unlikely things have happened than that when John Milton left Cambridge in 1632 THE COLONIAL PERIOD . 11.
... of the original promoters of the Virginia colony , and he made voyages in person to New- foundland and Guiana . And more unlikely things have happened than that when John Milton left Cambridge in 1632 THE COLONIAL PERIOD . 11.
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... things were done in New England in the name of faith less than two hundred years ago . It is not wonderful that , to the Massachusetts Puritans of the seventeenth century , the mysterious forest held no beautiful suggestion ; to them it ...
... things were done in New England in the name of faith less than two hundred years ago . It is not wonderful that , to the Massachusetts Puritans of the seventeenth century , the mysterious forest held no beautiful suggestion ; to them it ...
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... the press- ure of vast bodies of people who did not think as they did . In New England , for many generations , the dominant sect had things all its own way - a condition of THE COLONIAL PERIOD . 31 THE COLONIAL PERIOD, 1607-1765.
... the press- ure of vast bodies of people who did not think as they did . In New England , for many generations , the dominant sect had things all its own way - a condition of THE COLONIAL PERIOD . 31 THE COLONIAL PERIOD, 1607-1765.
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Henry Augustin Beers. had things all its own way - a condition of things which is not healthy for any sect or party . Hence Mather and the divines of his time appear in their writings very much like so many Puritan bishops , jealous of ...
Henry Augustin Beers. had things all its own way - a condition of things which is not healthy for any sect or party . Hence Mather and the divines of his time appear in their writings very much like so many Puritan bishops , jealous of ...
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Page 231 - 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 223 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 249 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer!
Page 45 - 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.
Page 147 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.
Page 154 - 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 232 - 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 234 - 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 232 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light, and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
Page 235 - In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth.