Hand-book of American literature, historical, biographical, and critical [by J. Gostwick. The title-leaf is a cancel].Kennikat Press, 1856 - 319 pages |
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... interest were produced during the colonial period , and about the time of the Revolution - and these , with the early records and biographies of the States of New England , have seemed worthy of notice in our review ; but the writings ...
... interest were produced during the colonial period , and about the time of the Revolution - and these , with the early records and biographies of the States of New England , have seemed worthy of notice in our review ; but the writings ...
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... interest were produced in the colonial period . Among all the memoirs and other writings of the Friends ( otherwise called Quakers ) in America , one of the most noticeable books , though it has no literary pretensions , is the Journal ...
... interest were produced in the colonial period . Among all the memoirs and other writings of the Friends ( otherwise called Quakers ) in America , one of the most noticeable books , though it has no literary pretensions , is the Journal ...
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... interest of the state will be merged in the all - absorbing question of " Who shall be the next president ? ” ' This safe prediction was very soon fulfilled . In the year 1800 , at a crisis when , if a president had not been speedily ...
... interest of the state will be merged in the all - absorbing question of " Who shall be the next president ? ” ' This safe prediction was very soon fulfilled . In the year 1800 , at a crisis when , if a president had not been speedily ...
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... interest is diminished rather than increased by the use of supernatural agency , which destroys the air of reality given to some of the descriptions . This opinion , derived from a perusal of the poem , differs widely from the judgment ...
... interest is diminished rather than increased by the use of supernatural agency , which destroys the air of reality given to some of the descriptions . This opinion , derived from a perusal of the poem , differs widely from the judgment ...
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... interest , while of dramatic power we find no trace . This defect is common to several modern poets , who differ widely in other respects . Byron was constantly repeating his own real or imaginary characteristics ; and in Wordsworth ...
... interest , while of dramatic power we find no trace . This defect is common to several modern poets , who differ widely in other respects . Byron was constantly repeating his own real or imaginary characteristics ; and in Wordsworth ...
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Page 55 - 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 94 - 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 61 - She wore no funeral weeds for thee, Nor bade the dark hearse wave its plume, Like torn branch from death's leafless tree, In sorrow's pomp and pageantry. The heartless luxury of the tomb. But she remembers thee as one Long loved, and for a season gone. For thee her poet's lyre is wreathed, Her marble wrought, her music breathed; For thee she rings the birthday bells; Of thee her babes' first lisping tells; For thine her evening prayer is said At palace couch and cottage bed.
Page 88 - IT was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Page 56 - The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between, The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green, and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 92 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 137 - To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
Page 78 - We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time.
Page 139 - In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and...
Page 69 - As when the Northern skies Gleam in December; And, like the water's flow Under December's snow, Came a dull voice of woe From the heart's chamber.