The Story of Our Literature: An Interpretation of the American SpiritCharles Scribner's Sons, 1923 - 399 páginas |
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... LOUIS HANEY , PH.D. PRESIDENT , AND PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH PHILOLOGY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL , PHILADELPHIA CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON COPYRIGHT , 1923 , BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Printed in THE STORY.
... LOUIS HANEY , PH.D. PRESIDENT , AND PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH PHILOLOGY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL , PHILADELPHIA CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON COPYRIGHT , 1923 , BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Printed in THE STORY.
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... Professor Calvin E. Stowe , a member of the faculty . Soon after Professor Stowe's removal to Maine , where he became a teacher at Bowdoin College , Mrs. Stowe began to write Uncle Tom's Cabin . She had never visited the far South , but ...
... Professor Calvin E. Stowe , a member of the faculty . Soon after Professor Stowe's removal to Maine , where he became a teacher at Bowdoin College , Mrs. Stowe began to write Uncle Tom's Cabin . She had never visited the far South , but ...
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... Professor . - Upon his return in 1829 he began to teach French , Spanish , and Italian at Bowdoin , and also edited several text - books for instruction in those tongues . Inspired by his European experiences he wrote Outre - Mer ( two ...
... Professor . - Upon his return in 1829 he began to teach French , Spanish , and Italian at Bowdoin , and also edited several text - books for instruction in those tongues . Inspired by his European experiences he wrote Outre - Mer ( two ...
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... Professor and Editor . — In 1851 Lowell and his wife went abroad and spent fifteen months in Europe . The trip had been taken in the hope of improving Mrs. Lowell's health , but she died in 1853. After Longfellow resigned the ...
... Professor and Editor . — In 1851 Lowell and his wife went abroad and spent fifteen months in Europe . The trip had been taken in the hope of improving Mrs. Lowell's health , but she died in 1853. After Longfellow resigned the ...
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... professor . 27. Contributor to the " Atlantic . " - Holmes's literary reputation was hardly achieved until he had reached middle life . When The Atlantic Monthly was established , in 1857 , he contributed a serial that ran through the ...
... professor . 27. Contributor to the " Atlantic . " - Holmes's literary reputation was hardly achieved until he had reached middle life . When The Atlantic Monthly was established , in 1857 , he contributed a serial that ran through the ...
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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.