Cyclopadia of American Literature, Volume 2T. E. Zell, 1881 |
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... March . Ariadne . The Baby in the Bath - Tub , from " Records of Five JOHN STEINFORTH KIDNEY Years . " • Come in the Moonlight . GEORGE H. COLTON The Yosemite Valley , from " New Life in New Lands . " ALICE CARY PHILIP SCHAFF • Pictures ...
... March . Ariadne . The Baby in the Bath - Tub , from " Records of Five JOHN STEINFORTH KIDNEY Years . " • Come in the Moonlight . GEORGE H. COLTON The Yosemite Valley , from " New Life in New Lands . " ALICE CARY PHILIP SCHAFF • Pictures ...
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... March , 1824. The prominent idea of its founders was the advocacy of the " protective system . " . " Mr. Buckingham continued to edit the Courier until June , 1848 , when he sold out his interest . In July , 1831 , he com- menced with ...
... March , 1824. The prominent idea of its founders was the advocacy of the " protective system . " . " Mr. Buckingham continued to edit the Courier until June , 1848 , when he sold out his interest . In July , 1831 , he com- menced with ...
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... March 7 , 1791. He was of Quaker pa- rentage , his family being one of the oldest in the State , He was educated in the public schools of the town and in two of the academies of the State , when , after having passed a short period in ...
... March 7 , 1791. He was of Quaker pa- rentage , his family being one of the oldest in the State , He was educated in the public schools of the town and in two of the academies of the State , when , after having passed a short period in ...
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... march appear : " " T was I on each enchanting scene The charm bestowed , that banished spleen Thy bosom pure and light . But still a nobler power I claim , - That power allied to poet's fame , Which language vain has dared to name , The ...
... march appear : " " T was I on each enchanting scene The charm bestowed , that banished spleen Thy bosom pure and light . But still a nobler power I claim , - That power allied to poet's fame , Which language vain has dared to name , The ...
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... March , 1815 ) , not a single decision of his was ever reversed by that body . On leaving Congress , Mr. Cheves was chosen one of the Superior Judges of the Courts of Law of South Carolina , and in 1819 became President of the Bank of ...
... March , 1815 ) , not a single decision of his was ever reversed by that body . On leaving Congress , Mr. Cheves was chosen one of the Superior Judges of the Courts of Law of South Carolina , and in 1819 became President of the Bank of ...
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Page 406 - This it is and nothing more." Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door: — Darkness there and nothing more.
Page 183 - 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 407 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting — "Get thee back into the tempest and the night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken! — quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 371 - And he shakes his feeble head. That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Page 407 - ... thing of evil ! — prophet Fa*y still, if bird or devil!— ^ Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted — On this home by Horror haunted — tell me truly, I implore — Is there — is there balm in Gilead? — tell me — tell me, I implore! Quoth the raven,
Page 406 - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door — Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as
Page 91 - He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and, though poor perhaps compared With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, Calls the delightful scenery all his own. His are the mountains, and the valleys his, And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy With a propriety that none can feel, But who, with filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say —
Page 406 - But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore — What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore.
Page 284 - They climb up into my turret O'er the arms and back of my chair; If I try to escape, they surround me; They seem to be everywhere.
Page 377 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.