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 |
De dentro do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 100
Página 13
... course deli- vered a poem . He returned to South Carolina ; sold his pro- perty ; sailed for England , and on his arrival in London became a student of the Royal Academy , then under the presidency of Benjamin West . Here he remained ...
... course deli- vered a poem . He returned to South Carolina ; sold his pro- perty ; sailed for England , and on his arrival in London became a student of the Royal Academy , then under the presidency of Benjamin West . Here he remained ...
Página 21
... course is pursued . Other commen- taries followed in due course , provoking more or less of criticism , on the Apocalypse , the Book of Daniel , of Ecclesiastes , of Proverbs , the last of which he had just completed at the time of his ...
... course is pursued . Other commen- taries followed in due course , provoking more or less of criticism , on the Apocalypse , the Book of Daniel , of Ecclesiastes , of Proverbs , the last of which he had just completed at the time of his ...
Página 35
... course of out - door physical exer- cise , succeeded in restoring the natural vigor of his constitution , and giving him a taste for rural sports which was of service then , and afterwards , as a relief to his mental labors . After four ...
... course of out - door physical exer- cise , succeeded in restoring the natural vigor of his constitution , and giving him a taste for rural sports which was of service then , and afterwards , as a relief to his mental labors . After four ...
Página 40
... course of preliminary mental training by his father , was placed at school at Paris . In 1840 he lost his only brother Edward , a bereavement which afflicted him deeply . In 1841 he left school , and devoted two years to the study of ...
... course of preliminary mental training by his father , was placed at school at Paris . In 1840 he lost his only brother Edward , a bereavement which afflicted him deeply . In 1841 he left school , and devoted two years to the study of ...
Página 43
... course he thus contrasts the past of the old world with the present and future of America . The hardy emigrant is ascending the passes of the Rocky Mountains , and already the forest is giving way before the axe of the woodsman on the ...
... course he thus contrasts the past of the old world with the present and future of America . The hardy emigrant is ascending the passes of the Rocky Mountains , and already the forest is giving way before the axe of the woodsman on the ...
Conteúdo
2 | |
10 | |
19 | |
25 | |
87 | |
98 | |
104 | |
156 | |
400 | |
406 | |
416 | |
547 | |
577 | |
618 | |
627 | |
635 | |
171 | |
182 | |
188 | |
198 | |
207 | |
281 | |
289 | |
311 | |
314 | |
320 | |
326 | |
342 | |
343 | |
343 | |
343 | |
393 | |
641 | |
647 | |
653 | |
659 | |
665 | |
710 | |
722 | |
737 | |
743 | |
747 | |
752 | |
753 | |
760 | |
762 | |
767 | |
774 | |
Outras edições - Ver todos
Termos e frases comuns
American appeared beauty became born Boston breath bright brother called character Charleston Christian Church College commenced Connecticut course dark death discourse duated duties early earth edition England essays Europe father flowers hand happy heart heaven honor labor land lectures light literary literature living look Massachusetts ment mind moral nature never night North American Review o'er octavo oration passed period Phi Beta Kappa Philadelphia poems poet poetical poetry political Portrait and Autograph Pot Pie President Professor published racter Review scene sketch Society song soon soul Spain spirit Stephen Elliott sweet taste thee Theodore Sedgwick thine thou thought tion Unitarian Verplanck verse voice volume Washington Irving waves Whig WILLIAM LEGGETT writings wrote Yale College York young youth
Passagens mais conhecidas
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.