Autobiography, criticism, and indexA. and C. Black, 1883 - American literature |
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... mind whether he had or had not actually written to some Mr. Joseph Miller the letter attributed to him in the article . This letter was nothing more than what follows : - - BOSTON , Dear Sir - No such person as Philip Philpot has ever ...
... mind whether he had or had not actually written to some Mr. Joseph Miller the letter attributed to him in the article . This letter was nothing more than what follows : - - BOSTON , Dear Sir - No such person as Philip Philpot has ever ...
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... mind of Mr. Paulding's . In both MSS . perfect regularity exists , and in both the style is formed or decided . Both are beautiful , yet Mrs. Sigourney's is the most legible , and Mr. Paulding's nearly the most illegible in the world ...
... mind of Mr. Paulding's . In both MSS . perfect regularity exists , and in both the style is formed or decided . Both are beautiful , yet Mrs. Sigourney's is the most legible , and Mr. Paulding's nearly the most illegible in the world ...
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... mind , however , that this is the fault of Mr. Brownson's subject , and not of Mr. Brownson . However well a man may reason on the great topics of God and immortality , he will be forced to admit tacitly in the end , that God and ...
... mind , however , that this is the fault of Mr. Brownson's subject , and not of Mr. Brownson . However well a man may reason on the great topics of God and immortality , he will be forced to admit tacitly in the end , that God and ...
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... mind to be what it really is - excessively flighty and irregular , but active and energetic . CInseelswich The penmanship of Miss SEDGWICK is excellent . The characters are well - sized , distinct , elegantly but not osten- tatiously ...
... mind to be what it really is - excessively flighty and irregular , but active and energetic . CInseelswich The penmanship of Miss SEDGWICK is excellent . The characters are well - sized , distinct , elegantly but not osten- tatiously ...
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... mind which his talents , under other circumstances , would have effected . But better days are in store for him , and for all who " hold to the right way , " despising the yelpings of the small dogs of our literature . His prose ...
... mind which his talents , under other circumstances , would have effected . But better days are in store for him , and for all who " hold to the right way , " despising the yelpings of the small dogs of our literature . His prose ...
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Page 505 - But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
Page 441 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 211 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that 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.
Page 308 - There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge, Three fifths of him genius and two fifths sheer fudge, Who talks like a book of iambs and pentameters, In a way to make people of common sense damn metres, Who has written some things quite the best of their kind, But the heart somehow seems all squeezed out by the mind, Who — But hey-day!
Page 237 - Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride, And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her that she died!
Page 237 - And star-dials pointed to morn, As the star-dials hinted of morn, At the end of our path a liquescent And nebulous lustre was born, Out of which a miraculous crescent Arose with a duplicate horn, Astarte's bediamonded crescent Distinct with its duplicate horn.
Page 494 - Twould stay, and run again, and stay. For it was nimbler much than hinds; And trod, as on the four winds. I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness. And all the springtime of the year It only loved to be there.
Page 441 - Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.
Page 499 - In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land : whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, " Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Page 417 - Twixt Want and Scorn she walk'd forlorn, And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to pray ; For, as love's wild prayer dissolved in air, Her woman's heart gave way ! — But the sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven By man is cursed alway...