Autobiography, criticism, and indexA. and C. Black, 1883 - American literature |
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... seems to bring him before us in his true idiosyncrasy - in his character of scribe . The feeling which prompts to the collection of autographs is a natural and rational one . But complete , or even extensive collections , are beyond the ...
... seems to bring him before us in his true idiosyncrasy - in his character of scribe . The feeling which prompts to the collection of autographs is a natural and rational one . But complete , or even extensive collections , are beyond the ...
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... seems to take much pains with her MSS . Apparently she employs black lines . Every t is crossed , and every i dotted , with precision , while the punctuation is faultless . Yet the whole has nothing of effeminacy or formality . The ...
... seems to take much pains with her MSS . Apparently she employs black lines . Every t is crossed , and every i dotted , with precision , while the punctuation is faultless . Yet the whole has nothing of effeminacy or formality . The ...
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... seems to have been hurriedly written . The t's are crossed with a sweeping scratch of the pen , which gives to his epistles a somewhat droll appearance . A dictatorial air pervades the whole . His paper is of ordinary quality . His seal ...
... seems to have been hurriedly written . The t's are crossed with a sweeping scratch of the pen , which gives to his epistles a somewhat droll appearance . A dictatorial air pervades the whole . His paper is of ordinary quality . His seal ...
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... seem to be written currente calamo , but with- out hurry . His flourishes , which are not many , look as if thoughtfully planned , and deliberately , yet firmly executed . His paper is very good , and of a bluish tint , his seal of red ...
... seem to be written currente calamo , but with- out hurry . His flourishes , which are not many , look as if thoughtfully planned , and deliberately , yet firmly executed . His paper is very good , and of a bluish tint , his seal of red ...
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... seems to have been infected with a blind admiration of Coleridge , especially of his mysticism and cant . Henry M Longfellows H. W. LONGFELLOW ( Professor of Moral Philosophy at Harvard ) , is entitled to the first place among the poets ...
... seems to have been infected with a blind admiration of Coleridge , especially of his mysticism and cant . Henry M Longfellows H. W. LONGFELLOW ( Professor of Moral Philosophy at Harvard ) , is entitled to the first place among the poets ...
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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...