Initial Studies in American LettersChautauqua Press, 1891 - 282 oldal |
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34. oldal
... gloomy . poem which hold it far above contempt , and easily account for its universal currency among a people like the Puritans . One stanza has been often quoted for its grim concession 34 INITIAL STUDIES IN AMERICAN LETTERS .
... gloomy . poem which hold it far above contempt , and easily account for its universal currency among a people like the Puritans . One stanza has been often quoted for its grim concession 34 INITIAL STUDIES IN AMERICAN LETTERS .
43. oldal
... universal and perma- nent , explains why so few speeches are really literature . If this is true , even where the words of an orator are preserved exactly as they were spoken , it is doubly true when we have only the testimony of ...
... universal and perma- nent , explains why so few speeches are really literature . If this is true , even where the words of an orator are preserved exactly as they were spoken , it is doubly true when we have only the testimony of ...
84. oldal
... universal love of a story is perennial . We devour them when we are boys , and if we do not often return to them when we are men , that is per- haps only because we have read them before , and " know the ending . " They are good yarns ...
... universal love of a story is perennial . We devour them when we are boys , and if we do not often return to them when we are men , that is per- haps only because we have read them before , and " know the ending . " They are good yarns ...
87. oldal
... universal in their appeal take their place in literature . But of such de- tachable passages there are happily many in Webster's ora- tions . One great thought underlay all his public life , the thought of the Union -- of American ...
... universal in their appeal take their place in literature . But of such de- tachable passages there are happily many in Webster's ora- tions . One great thought underlay all his public life , the thought of the Union -- of American ...
94. oldal
... universal inquiry and exper- iment , which marked the third and fourth decades of this cent- in America , and especially in New England . The move- ment was contemporary with political revolutions in Europe and with the preaching of ...
... universal inquiry and exper- iment , which marked the third and fourth decades of this cent- in America , and especially in New England . The move- ment was contemporary with political revolutions in Europe and with the preaching of ...
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227. oldal - There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
98. oldal - Standing on the bare ground - my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
143. oldal - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.
245. oldal - Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone.
228. oldal - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light, and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
231. oldal - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and...
230. oldal - 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 thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
150. oldal - The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sun-flower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland, glade, and glen.
219. oldal - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
152. oldal - Still sits the schoolhouse by the road, A ragged beggar sunning; Around it still the sumachs grow, And blackberry vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official, The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial...