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 Houghton, Mifflin, 1891 - 462 páginas |
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... land . His foreign birth and education gave him significant advantages as an observer of English life , and he at once began the writing of those papers , stories , and sketches which appeared in the separate numbers of The Sketch Book ...
... land . His foreign birth and education gave him significant advantages as an observer of English life , and he at once began the writing of those papers , stories , and sketches which appeared in the separate numbers of The Sketch Book ...
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... land- scape is cloudless they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits , which , in the last rays of the setting sun , will glow and light up like a crown of glory . At the foot of these fairy 1 mountains , the voyager may ...
... land- scape is cloudless they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits , which , in the last rays of the setting sun , will glow and light up like a crown of glory . At the foot of these fairy 1 mountains , the voyager may ...
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... land peddler . " There was a drop of comfort at least , in this intel- ligence . The honest man could contain himself no longer . He caught his daughter and her child in his arms . " I am your father ! " cried he - " Young Rip Van ...
... land peddler . " There was a drop of comfort at least , in this intel- ligence . The honest man could contain himself no longer . He caught his daughter and her child in his arms . " I am your father ! " cried he - " Young Rip Van ...
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... land , Though the dark night is near . And soon that toil shall end ; Soon shalt thou find a summer home , and rest , And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend , Soon , o'er thy sheltered nest . Thou ' rt gone , the abyss of ...
... land , Though the dark night is near . And soon that toil shall end ; Soon shalt thou find a summer home , and rest , And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend , Soon , o'er thy sheltered nest . Thou ' rt gone , the abyss of ...
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... lands ; or , if I have , they are smartly taxed . And , as Poor Richard likewise observes , He that hath a trade hath an estate , and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor ; but then the trade must be worked at , and ...
... lands ; or , if I have , they are smartly taxed . And , as Poor Richard likewise observes , He that hath a trade hath an estate , and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor ; but then the trade must be worked at , and ...
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Página 272 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries 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, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Página 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.
Página 38 - All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Página 39 - Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 274 - We sit in the warm shade and feel right well How the sap creeps up and the blossoms swell; We may shut our eyes, but we cannot help knowing That skies are clear and grass is growing; The breeze comes whispering in our ear That dandelions are blossoming near, That maize has sprouted, that streams are flowing. That the river is bluer than the sky, That the robin is plastering his house hard by...
Página 11 - It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble.
Página 38 - To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share and treads upon : the oak Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mould.
Página 10 - Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity; for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation, and a curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.