Masterpieces of American Literature: Franklin, Irving, Bryant, Webster, Everett, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Whittier, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Thoreau, O'Reilly : with Biographical Sketches and PortraitsJohn Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler |
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... known to those who had the making there of literary reputations . Irving himself was born of a Scottish father and English mother , who had come to this country only twenty years before . He was but little removed , therefore , from the ...
... known to those who had the making there of literary reputations . Irving himself was born of a Scottish father and English mother , who had come to this country only twenty years before . He was but little removed , therefore , from the ...
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... known , then , that the nose of Antony the trum- peter was of a very lusty size , strutting boldly from his counte- nance like a mountain of Golconda . Now thus it happened , - that bright and early in the morning the good Antony ...
... known , then , that the nose of Antony the trum- peter was of a very lusty size , strutting boldly from his counte- nance like a mountain of Golconda . Now thus it happened , - that bright and early in the morning the good Antony ...
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... known by the name of the Garden Rock . Near the foot of it is a small lake , the haunt of the solitary bittern , with water - snakes basking in the sun on the leaves of the pond - lilies which lie on the surface . This place was held in ...
... known by the name of the Garden Rock . Near the foot of it is a small lake , the haunt of the solitary bittern , with water - snakes basking in the sun on the leaves of the pond - lilies which lie on the surface . This place was held in ...
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... known , Thanatopsis . It was published in the North American Review for September , 1817 , and the same periodical published a few months afterward his lines To a Waterfowl , one of the most characteristic and lovely of Bryant's poems ...
... known , Thanatopsis . It was published in the North American Review for September , 1817 , and the same periodical published a few months afterward his lines To a Waterfowl , one of the most characteristic and lovely of Bryant's poems ...
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... known as that of the first American who had written poetry that could take its place in universal literature . His own decided preference for lit- erature , and the encouragement of friends , led to his aban- donment of the law in 1825 ...
... known as that of the first American who had written poetry that could take its place in universal literature . His own decided preference for lit- erature , and the encouragement of friends , led to his aban- donment of the law in 1825 ...
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Page 52 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Page 37 - To him who in the love of Nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
Page 37 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Page 83 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil. Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 229 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Page 82 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main; The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming Lair.
Page 39 - 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.
Page 49 - Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears ; while the used key is always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting, that The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Page 376 - Dwelt in the love of God and of man. Alike were they free from Fear, that reigns with the tyrant, and envy, the vice of republics.
Page 373 - Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient, Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman's devotion, List to the mournful tradition, still sung by the pines of the forest; List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy.