A Literary History of AmericaC. Scribner's sons, 1900 - Всего страниц: 574 |
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... once more vital and more picturesque than the quarrels of rival parlia ments . Nor is it in any sense unscientific to shift the point of view from politics to literature . It is but a fashion of history which insists that a nation lives ...
... once more vital and more picturesque than the quarrels of rival parlia ments . Nor is it in any sense unscientific to shift the point of view from politics to literature . It is but a fashion of history which insists that a nation lives ...
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... once more , are not quite voiceless ; as surely as he may twitter in the ears of men , so men themselves may give sign to one another of what they think they know , and of what they know they feel . More too ; men have learned to record ...
... once more , are not quite voiceless ; as surely as he may twitter in the ears of men , so men themselves may give sign to one another of what they think they know , and of what they know they feel . More too ; men have learned to record ...
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... once easy to remember and characteristically distinct . In the history of America , at least , each century has traits of its own . In 1600 there was no such thing as English - speaking America ; in 1700 all but one of the colonies ...
... once easy to remember and characteristically distinct . In the history of America , at least , each century has traits of its own . In 1600 there was no such thing as English - speaking America ; in 1700 all but one of the colonies ...
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... once range themselves in true per- spective ; and when these facts are living men and women , there is a touch of inhumanity in writing of them as if we had already had the misfortune to lose them . In these straits one decision seems ...
... once range themselves in true per- spective ; and when these facts are living men and women , there is a touch of inhumanity in writing of them as if we had already had the misfortune to lose them . In these straits one decision seems ...
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... once the actuating impulse of authority was rather that the will of God should be done on earth than that any custom however fortified and confirmed by the experience formulated in the Common Law should for its own sake be maintained ...
... once the actuating impulse of authority was rather that the will of God should be done on earth than that any custom however fortified and confirmed by the experience formulated in the Common Law should for its own sake be maintained ...
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Стр. 215 - But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate. (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him, desolate ! ) And, round about his home, the glory That blushed and bloomed Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.
Стр. 399 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen. We hear life murmur or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers.
Стр. 313 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit; not to be reckoned one character; not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or...
Стр. 252 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Стр. 474 - There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim. o CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! O Captain 1 my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart 1 heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain!
Стр. 361 - The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons...
Стр. 91 - Fifty-five ! This morning the parson takes a drive. Now, small boys, get out of the way ! Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. "Huddup!" said the parson. Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text — Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the — Moses — was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'house on the hill.
Стр. 250 - VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else how changed!
Стр. 197 - 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.
Стр. 98 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket...