The Story of Our Literature: An Interpretation of the American SpiritCharles Scribner's Sons, 1923 - 399 páginas |
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... field of Gettysburg , where not many months before two mighty armies had been locked in deadly conflict . He was not the orator of the occasion , but he had come as the nation's Chief Executive to make a few appropriate remarks at the ...
... field of Gettysburg , where not many months before two mighty armies had been locked in deadly conflict . He was not the orator of the occasion , but he had come as the nation's Chief Executive to make a few appropriate remarks at the ...
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... Field of Gettysburg , November 19 , 1863 Dimmesdale's Revelation - The Scarlet Letter Walt Whitman Thomas Nelson Page Mark Twain William Dean Howells . 108 • 1088 96 140 180 200 246 THE STORY OF OUR LITERATURE CHAPTER I IN DAYS OF.
... Field of Gettysburg , November 19 , 1863 Dimmesdale's Revelation - The Scarlet Letter Walt Whitman Thomas Nelson Page Mark Twain William Dean Howells . 108 • 1088 96 140 180 200 246 THE STORY OF OUR LITERATURE CHAPTER I IN DAYS OF.
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... field , for fear of growing too tender . A clear sky , spangled with stars , was our canopy which , being the last thing we saw before we fell asleep , gave us magnificent dreams . The truth of it is , we took so much pleasure in that ...
... field , for fear of growing too tender . A clear sky , spangled with stars , was our canopy which , being the last thing we saw before we fell asleep , gave us magnificent dreams . The truth of it is , we took so much pleasure in that ...
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... fields and groves , and seems to have some one invisible always conversing with her . Several competent literary critics have selected this poetic rhapsody as the finest specimen of colonial prose . 13. Life in the Middle Colonies ...
... fields and groves , and seems to have some one invisible always conversing with her . Several competent literary critics have selected this poetic rhapsody as the finest specimen of colonial prose . 13. Life in the Middle Colonies ...
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... land that he may weary himself with walking over his fields of corn and all sorts of grain . " Toward the end of the century John Miller , an English chaplain , described New York as a community of 3,000 IN DAYS OF OLD 23.
... land that he may weary himself with walking over his fields of corn and all sorts of grain . " Toward the end of the century John Miller , an English chaplain , described New York as a community of 3,000 IN DAYS OF OLD 23.
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Página 291 - It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal...
Página 98 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Página 45 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Página 147 - For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths— for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.
Página 78 - Forever. Written on thy works I read The lesson of thy own eternity. Lo ! all grow old and die ; but see again, How on the faltering footsteps of decay Youth presses, — ever gay and beautiful youth In all its beautiful forms.
Página 50 - Observe good faith and justice toward all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct, and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it...
Página 171 - It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Página 50 - This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.
Página 75 - 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 50 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements.