Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings. From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; with Portraits, Autographs, and Other Illustrations, Том 1,Часть 1Scribner, 1855 |
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... England Puritan school , the patient , laborious , well read , and acute divines , the scholars who gave life to the early seats of learning , the first race of chroniclers , several genial observers of nature , as the Bartrams , and an ...
... England Puritan school , the patient , laborious , well read , and acute divines , the scholars who gave life to the early seats of learning , the first race of chroniclers , several genial observers of nature , as the Bartrams , and an ...
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... ENGLAND The New England Preachers . CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH Story of Pocahontas . The Sea Mark . THOMAS HARRIOT - ALEXANDER WHITAKER- WILLIAM STRACHEY JARVARD COLLEGE Pietas et Gratulatio . THE BAY PSALM BOOK NATHANIEL WARD • Prefatory Lines ...
... ENGLAND The New England Preachers . CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH Story of Pocahontas . The Sea Mark . THOMAS HARRIOT - ALEXANDER WHITAKER- WILLIAM STRACHEY JARVARD COLLEGE Pietas et Gratulatio . THE BAY PSALM BOOK NATHANIEL WARD • Prefatory Lines ...
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... England Sabbath - day chase . New England and New York . The Royal Apprentice ; a London story . To the Memory of the brave Americans , under General Greene , in South Carolina , who fell in the action of September 8 , 1781 . On the ...
... England Sabbath - day chase . New England and New York . The Royal Apprentice ; a London story . To the Memory of the brave Americans , under General Greene , in South Carolina , who fell in the action of September 8 , 1781 . On the ...
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... England , sent home and published his Golden Fleece , * a quaint tract in prose and verse , intended through the medium of satire and fancy to set forth the discourage- ments of England and the encouragements of America . In his ...
... England , sent home and published his Golden Fleece , * a quaint tract in prose and verse , intended through the medium of satire and fancy to set forth the discourage- ments of England and the encouragements of America . In his ...
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... England , where he soon after published in Latin hexameters and English hero- ics , the latter a little rough , his poem Nova Anglia , which he addressed to King Charles I. It is mainly taken up with the animal inhabitants of the land ...
... England , where he soon after published in Latin hexameters and English hero- ics , the latter a little rough , his poem Nova Anglia , which he addressed to King Charles I. It is mainly taken up with the animal inhabitants of the land ...
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Стр. 112 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Стр. 93 - She has a strange sweetness in her mind and singular purity in her affections, is most just and conscientious in all her conduct; and you could not persuade her to do anything wrong or sinful if you would give her all the world, lest she should offend this Great Being.
Стр. 111 - My present friends are the children and grandchildren of the friends of my youth, who are now, alas, no more ! And I must soon follow them; for by the course of nature, though still in health, I cannot expect to live above seven or eight minutes longer. What now avails all my toil and labor in amassing honey-dew on this leaf, which I cannot live to enjoy?
Стр. 169 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools: There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Стр. 112 - If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
Стр. 35 - In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Стр. 114 - You promise fair; but, after a few months of good health, you will return to your old habits; your fine promises will be forgotten like the forms of last year's clouds.
Стр. 111 - the opinion of learned philosophers of our race, who lived and flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours ; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since, by the apparent motion of the great luminary that gives life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably...
Стр. 220 - You must remember this was the next morning after we heard the horrible rumor of the cannonade of Boston. I never saw a greater effect upon an audience. It seemed as if Heaven had ordained that psalm to be read on that morning. " After this, Mr. Duche, unexpectedly to everybody, struck out into an extemporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every man present.
Стр. 49 - I wist not what to wish, yet sure, thought I, If so much excellence abide below, How excellent is He that dwells on high!