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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... ment in life which resented foreign interference . There were thus two currents crossing each other : the common life which was narrowly American , and the cultivated taste which was English , or imitative of England . Irving's first ...
... ment in life which resented foreign interference . There were thus two currents crossing each other : the common life which was narrowly American , and the cultivated taste which was English , or imitative of England . Irving's first ...
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... ment of curiosity as to the future , which is not far removed from what some have regarded as an instinct of the human mind pointing to personal immortality . The name Van Winkle was happily chosen by Irving , but not invented by him ...
... ment of curiosity as to the future , which is not far removed from what some have regarded as an instinct of the human mind pointing to personal immortality . The name Van Winkle was happily chosen by Irving , but not invented by him ...
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... ment , acre by acre , until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes , yet it was the worst - conditioned farm in the neighborhood . His children , too , were as ragged and wild as if they belonged to ...
... ment , acre by acre , until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes , yet it was the worst - conditioned farm in the neighborhood . His children , too , were as ragged and wild as if they belonged to ...
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... ment Wolf entered the house his crest fell , his tail drooped to the ground , or curled between his legs , he sneaked about with a gallows air , casting many a side- long glance at Dame Van Winkle , and at the least flourish of a ...
... ment Wolf entered the house his crest fell , his tail drooped to the ground , or curled between his legs , he sneaked about with a gallows air , casting many a side- long glance at Dame Van Winkle , and at the least flourish of a ...
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... ment were the only ones we had to pay , we might the more easily discharge them ; but we have many others , and much more grievous to some of us . We are taxed twice as much by our IDLENESS , three times as much by our PRIDE , and four ...
... ment were the only ones we had to pay , we might the more easily discharge them ; but we have many others , and much more grievous to some of us . We are taxed twice as much by our IDLENESS , three times as much by our PRIDE , and four ...
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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.