The Courtship of Miles Standish: And Other PoemsUniversity Publishing, 1901 - 142 pages |
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... story - loving age in what is meant by a plot , how it is put to- gether , what part the actors play , and in the teachings of the book . The study of the poet's materials will open up natu- rally the important relation of history to ...
... story - loving age in what is meant by a plot , how it is put to- gether , what part the actors play , and in the teachings of the book . The study of the poet's materials will open up natu- rally the important relation of history to ...
Page ix
... story of love and friend- ship . " Evangeline " presents scenes of domestic happiness followed by disaster and heart - breaking separation ; " The Courtship " pictures the stern struggle between two races , and crowns with gladness two ...
... story of love and friend- ship . " Evangeline " presents scenes of domestic happiness followed by disaster and heart - breaking separation ; " The Courtship " pictures the stern struggle between two races , and crowns with gladness two ...
Page x
... story with the finished masterpiece which his art has made out of those crude materials . This will be having a glimpse into the poet's workshop , for we may see something of the process by which he changed a rough backwoods story into ...
... story with the finished masterpiece which his art has made out of those crude materials . This will be having a glimpse into the poet's workshop , for we may see something of the process by which he changed a rough backwoods story into ...
Page xvi
... story . He makes us feel , as we read the poem that old Plymouth atmosphere with its strange mixture of stern enthusiasm , austere piety , and undemonstrative tender- ness . Under a cold and forbidding outside glowed many a heart that ...
... story . He makes us feel , as we read the poem that old Plymouth atmosphere with its strange mixture of stern enthusiasm , austere piety , and undemonstrative tender- ness . Under a cold and forbidding outside glowed many a heart that ...
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... story of the wandering French girl , but in both we breathe the sweet fresh air of the forest . " The Courtship " keeps more on the plane of everyday life , and to that extent is less idealistic and more realistic . One evidence of this ...
... story of the wandering French girl , but in both we breathe the sweet fresh air of the forest . " The Courtship " keeps more on the plane of everyday life , and to that extent is less idealistic and more realistic . One evidence of this ...
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accent Angels beautiful beheld Belfry of Bruges Bible breath Bruges Cæsar Captain of Plymouth church cilla colony Courtship of Miles dark dead death Elizabeth Appleton England English Evangeline Excelsior eyes feeling feet Flanders flowers forest Forever-never friendship Full Text gleam grave gray Guy de Dampierre hand heard heart HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW hexameters humor Indian John Alden Julius Cæsar land laugh light living long thoughts Longfellow look loud maiden Master matchlock Mayflower meter Miles Standish mist Never-forever night o'er ocean pause Pecksuot Pilgrims Plym Plymouth Plantation poem poet poet's poetic poetry prayer Priscilla Priscilla Mullens Psalm Published Puritan rain roar Rose sail Sandalphon sang shadows ship silent snow soldier song Song of Hiawatha sorrow sound spake stood story strong sweet Thereupon answered thoughts of youth unaccented syllable vessel village voice wife wind wind's words youth are long