The Story of Our Literature: An Interpretation of the American SpiritCharles Scribner's Sons, 1923 - 399 oldal |
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... less than 300 words ; but those carefully chosen words of The Gettysburg Address were of such significance and made so direct and sincere an appeal that they passed at once into the immortal literature of the world . Many an ambitious ...
... less than 300 words ; but those carefully chosen words of The Gettysburg Address were of such significance and made so direct and sincere an appeal that they passed at once into the immortal literature of the world . Many an ambitious ...
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... less favor- able comment than his stable of thoroughbred horses . In 1728 Colonel Byrd was appointed a member of the commission that established the boundary - line between Vir- ginia and North Carolina . The surveyors had to traverse ...
... less favor- able comment than his stable of thoroughbred horses . In 1728 Colonel Byrd was appointed a member of the commission that established the boundary - line between Vir- ginia and North Carolina . The surveyors had to traverse ...
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... 1640 at the newly estab- lished press in Cambridge , had the honor of being the first English book to be printed in America ; it has also the less enviable distinction of being one of the worst books of IN DAYS OF OLD 9.
... 1640 at the newly estab- lished press in Cambridge , had the honor of being the first English book to be printed in America ; it has also the less enviable distinction of being one of the worst books of IN DAYS OF OLD 9.
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... less crude were the poetical efforts of Anne Bradstreet ( 1612-1672 ) , who as a young wife of eighteen arrived at Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 in the good ship Arbella . At sixteen Anne Dudley had been married to Simon Bradstreet ...
... less crude were the poetical efforts of Anne Bradstreet ( 1612-1672 ) , who as a young wife of eighteen arrived at Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 in the good ship Arbella . At sixteen Anne Dudley had been married to Simon Bradstreet ...
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... less , though every sin's a crime . A crime it is , therefore in bliss you may not hope to dwell ; But unto you I shall allow the easiest room in hell . Throughout this grotesque poem there is not the slightest suggestion of the dignity ...
... less , though every sin's a crime . A crime it is , therefore in bliss you may not hope to dwell ; But unto you I shall allow the easiest room in hell . Throughout this grotesque poem there is not the slightest suggestion of the dignity ...
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291. oldal - It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal...
98. oldal - 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.
45. oldal - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
147. oldal - For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths— for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.
78. oldal - Forever. Written on thy works I read The lesson of thy own eternity. Lo ! all grow old and die ; but see again, How on the faltering footsteps of decay Youth presses, — ever gay and beautiful youth In all its beautiful forms.
50. oldal - Observe good faith and justice toward all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct, and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it...
171. oldal - 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.
50. oldal - This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.
75. oldal - 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.
50. oldal - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements.