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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... numerous to be mentioned here ; while a very large pro- portion of educational works had made America , in this depart- ment , almost independent of the old country . " America , however , has few professional authors ,
... numerous to be mentioned here ; while a very large pro- portion of educational works had made America , in this depart- ment , almost independent of the old country . " America , however , has few professional authors ,
Page xi
... numerous details might be mentioned to prove that the ' glory , ' which Lord Camden declared to be the sole proper reward of science , is quite as insecure as the more substantial boon . We might notice - if any doubt existed respecting ...
... numerous details might be mentioned to prove that the ' glory , ' which Lord Camden declared to be the sole proper reward of science , is quite as insecure as the more substantial boon . We might notice - if any doubt existed respecting ...
Page xii
... numerous instances , as soon as a house with enterprise and capital has issued a readable impression of a work , and secured for it such a circulation as promises a fair remuneration , some base fellow is sure to bring out , on dingy ...
... numerous instances , as soon as a house with enterprise and capital has issued a readable impression of a work , and secured for it such a circulation as promises a fair remuneration , some base fellow is sure to bring out , on dingy ...
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... numerous tracts and papers interesting to the special student of American history , we may refer to the publications of the Massa- chusetts Historical Society , and to the valuable collection edited by Peter Force . 1 Colonel ...
... numerous tracts and papers interesting to the special student of American history , we may refer to the publications of the Massa- chusetts Historical Society , and to the valuable collection edited by Peter Force . 1 Colonel ...
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... numerous works range over a great diversity of topics , and go beyond the bounds of this visible world into regions where we do not care to follow . With a reference to Mather's strange tales of diablerie , Flint , in his sketch of ...
... numerous works range over a great diversity of topics , and go beyond the bounds of this visible world into regions where we do not care to follow . With a reference to Mather's strange tales of diablerie , Flint , in his sketch of ...
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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.