Introduction to American Literature: Including Illustrative Selections, with NotesSibley, 1903 - 550 pages |
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... resolved to migrate to the New World . They recog- nized the difficulties of the undertaking ; but , as one of their number tells us , it was replied that " all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties , and ...
... resolved to migrate to the New World . They recog- nized the difficulties of the undertaking ; but , as one of their number tells us , it was replied that " all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties , and ...
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... resolved to take steps to rouse the " people from the lethargy into which they had fallen . " A day of fasting and prayer was agreed on as the best expedient to accomplish their object . Accordingly , a resolution was " cooked up , " to ...
... resolved to take steps to rouse the " people from the lethargy into which they had fallen . " A day of fasting and prayer was agreed on as the best expedient to accomplish their object . Accordingly , a resolution was " cooked up , " to ...
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... resolved upon a deadly revenge . He sought a quarrel with Hamilton , and then chal- lenged him . The duel was fought at Weehawken , July 11 , 1804. At the first fire Hamilton fell mortally wounded , dis- charging his pistol in the air ...
... resolved upon a deadly revenge . He sought a quarrel with Hamilton , and then chal- lenged him . The duel was fought at Weehawken , July 11 , 1804. At the first fire Hamilton fell mortally wounded , dis- charging his pistol in the air ...
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... resolved to write an independent work . The result was the publication in 1828 of his " Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus , " a work of extensive research and admirable treatment . It was eagerly read , and Jeffrey declared that ...
... resolved to write an independent work . The result was the publication in 1828 of his " Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus , " a work of extensive research and admirable treatment . It was eagerly read , and Jeffrey declared that ...
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... resolve . In the course of a few months the circulation of the magazine ( if its own statements may be trusted ) increased from eight thousand to forty thousand — a remarkable circulation for the time . His criticism was based on the ...
... resolve . In the course of a few months the circulation of the magazine ( if its own statements may be trusted ) increased from eight thousand to forty thousand — a remarkable circulation for the time . His criticism was based on the ...
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Page 405 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air,— Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 155 - Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart: He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.
Page 357 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
Page 525 - AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! Her deck, once red with heroes...
Page 157 - In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the forest cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief: Yet not unmeet it was that one like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.
Page 422 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 419 - Only this and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore, Nameless here for evermore.
Page 421 - thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Page 443 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 529 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!