Studies in American Literature: A Text-book for Academies and High SchoolsMacmillan, 1898 - 386 pages |
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... English and American Literature . 1890 . Wendell , Barrett , Steligeri and other Essays concerning Amer- ica . Charles Scribner's Sons , 1893 . Whipple , E. P. , American Literature . Houghton , Mifflin & Co. , 1897 . Whitcomb , S. L. ...
... English and American Literature . 1890 . Wendell , Barrett , Steligeri and other Essays concerning Amer- ica . Charles Scribner's Sons , 1893 . Whipple , E. P. , American Literature . Houghton , Mifflin & Co. , 1897 . Whitcomb , S. L. ...
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... English Literature . But it is important that the student should guard against the mistaken notion that national independence implies literary contrast . Americans speak English with some differences from British English ; but if they ...
... English Literature . But it is important that the student should guard against the mistaken notion that national independence implies literary contrast . Americans speak English with some differences from British English ; but if they ...
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... English Literature took before American Literature began to be ; and these we now proceed to consider . All Literature of which we know anything is of Literature . divided into two great classes , called prose and verse . This ...
... English Literature took before American Literature began to be ; and these we now proceed to consider . All Literature of which we know anything is of Literature . divided into two great classes , called prose and verse . This ...
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... English Literature before American . Literature began to be . American writers imparted qualities of their own to these already established forms . But they have not except in a few in- stances attempted to change them or to depart from ...
... English Literature before American . Literature began to be . American writers imparted qualities of their own to these already established forms . But they have not except in a few in- stances attempted to change them or to depart from ...
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... English verse are made . Extra accents and defective feet are sometimes used for emphasis and variety . An important matter in verse is the point where Cesura . the voice pauses for rest or emphasis . Usually there will be one principal ...
... English verse are made . Extra accents and defective feet are sometimes used for emphasis and variety . An important matter in verse is the point where Cesura . the voice pauses for rest or emphasis . Usually there will be one principal ...
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Page 351 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 233 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 110 - Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon.
Page 204 - 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!
Page 111 - 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...
Page 52 - The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome Insect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked ; his wrath towards you burns like fire ; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire...
Page 109 - She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty; and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house...
Page 109 - Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart, Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around— Earth and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice...
Page 109 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 229 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.