Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day, with Portraits, Autographs, and Other Illustrations, Volume 2Charles Scribner, 1856 |
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... JOHN PIERPONT Invitations of the Muse , from " Airs of Palestine . " An Italian Scene . Dedication Hymn . Centennial Ode . M. M. NOAH Letter to William Dunlap , Esq . FRANKLIN COLLEGE , GA . ST . JOHN'S COLLEGE , MD . From the Address ...
... JOHN PIERPONT Invitations of the Muse , from " Airs of Palestine . " An Italian Scene . Dedication Hymn . Centennial Ode . M. M. NOAH Letter to William Dunlap , Esq . FRANKLIN COLLEGE , GA . ST . JOHN'S COLLEGE , MD . From the Address ...
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... JOHN NEAL A War Song of the Revolution . The Birth of a Poet . 157 • 158 160 161 103 ORVILLE DEWEY 164 . Study , from his Phi Beta Kappa Address in 1880 . 104 • • JARED SPARKS 165 106 EDWARD ROBINSON 167 106 THERESE ROBINSON EDWARD ...
... JOHN NEAL A War Song of the Revolution . The Birth of a Poet . 157 • 158 160 161 103 ORVILLE DEWEY 164 . Study , from his Phi Beta Kappa Address in 1880 . 104 • • JARED SPARKS 165 106 EDWARD ROBINSON 167 106 THERESE ROBINSON EDWARD ...
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... JOHN P. KENNEDY Description of Swallow Barn . Pursuits of a Philosopher . MDONALD CLARKE Stanzas on the Death of Brainard . On seeing a Young Girl look very wishfully into the Street from a Window of Miss ' s Boarding School , in ...
... JOHN P. KENNEDY Description of Swallow Barn . Pursuits of a Philosopher . MDONALD CLARKE Stanzas on the Death of Brainard . On seeing a Young Girl look very wishfully into the Street from a Window of Miss ' s Boarding School , in ...
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... JOHN O. CHOULES 817 Love , from the Essays . • Montaigne , from " Representative Men . " GEORGE P. MARSH Anglo - Saxon Influences of Home . THOMAS COLE . Sonnet . A Sunset . Twilight . The Tread of Time . Song of a Spirit . ALEXANDER H ...
... JOHN O. CHOULES 817 Love , from the Essays . • Montaigne , from " Representative Men . " GEORGE P. MARSH Anglo - Saxon Influences of Home . THOMAS COLE . Sonnet . A Sunset . Twilight . The Tread of Time . Song of a Spirit . ALEXANDER H ...
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... JOHN LLOYD STEPHENS The Bastinado at Cairo , from " Incidents of Travel in JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER The New Wife and the Old . Egypt . " FREDERIC HENRY HEDGE The Angel's Song , from Goethe's " Faust . " " A Dream of Summer . Palestine ...
... JOHN LLOYD STEPHENS The Bastinado at Cairo , from " Incidents of Travel in JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER The New Wife and the Old . Egypt . " FREDERIC HENRY HEDGE The Angel's Song , from Goethe's " Faust . " " A Dream of Summer . Palestine ...
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Página 350 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Página 33 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood...
Página 287 - In the government of this commonwealth, the Legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them; the executive shall never exercise the Legislative and judicial powers, or either of them; the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them ; to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Página 186 - So shalt thou rest; and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure? All that breathe 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 favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Página 210 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band : " Strike — till the last armed foe expires ; Strike — for your altars and your fires ; Strike — for the green graves of your sires ; God — and your native land...
Página 187 - And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.
Página 207 - When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there; She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand, The symbol of her chosen land.
Página 187 - The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread.
Página 72 - How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view! The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wild-wood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew!
Página 189 - MERRILY swinging on brier and weed, Near to the nest of his little dame, Over the mountain-side or mead, Robert of Lincoln is telling his name : Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink ; Snug and safe is that nest of ours, Hidden among the summer flowers. Chee, chee, chee.