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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... TO NIAGARA 117 WHITTIER . BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 127 SNOW - BOUND 130 THE SHIP - BUILDERS 156 THE WORSHIP OF NATURE 159 THOREAU . BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH WILD APPLES . 161 166 O'REILLY . BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH THE PILGRIM FATHERS 199 203 LOWELL.
... TO NIAGARA 117 WHITTIER . BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 127 SNOW - BOUND 130 THE SHIP - BUILDERS 156 THE WORSHIP OF NATURE 159 THOREAU . BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH WILD APPLES . 161 166 O'REILLY . BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH THE PILGRIM FATHERS 199 203 LOWELL.
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... nature , yet there was a very positive ele- 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 ...
... nature , yet there was a very positive ele- 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 ...
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... nature a patriot and political thinker ; he reserved for poetry the calm reflection , love of nature , and purity of aspiration which made him a poet . His editorial writing was made strong and pure by his cultivated taste and lofty ...
... nature a patriot and political thinker ; he reserved for poetry the calm reflection , love of nature , and purity of aspiration which made him a poet . His editorial writing was made strong and pure by his cultivated taste and lofty ...
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... nature of a sudden to change into a strange freshness and life . " This was the interpreting power of Wordsworth suddenly disclosing to Bryant , not the secrets of nature , but his own powers of perception and interpretation . Bryant is ...
... nature of a sudden to change into a strange freshness and life . " This was the interpreting power of Wordsworth suddenly disclosing to Bryant , not the secrets of nature , but his own powers of perception and interpretation . Bryant is ...
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... nature and human life , returns into those depths of human sympa- thy where nature must forever remain as a remote shadow . Bryant translated many short poems from the Spanish , but his largest literary undertaking was the translation ...
... nature and human life , returns into those depths of human sympa- thy where nature must forever remain as a remote shadow . Bryant translated many short poems from the Spanish , but his largest literary undertaking was the translation ...
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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.