An Introduction to American LiteratureH. Holt and Company, 1898 - 393 páginas |
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1897-Continued ENGLISH HISTORY AMERICAN HISTORY American literature Anne Bradstreet Bayard Taylor beauty Biography and Criticism born Boston Bryant century character Charles College Colonies Cooper Cotton Mather died early Edgar Allan Poe Edited Edwards Emerson ENGLAND LITERATURE English literature Essays Franklin Freneau genius George George William Curtis greatest Hawthorne Henry HISTORY AND LITERATURE Holmes humor ideal influence intellectual Irving Irving's James James Fenimore Cooper John Jonathan Edwards land Lanier letters lished litera literary lived Longfellow Lowell Magazine ment MIDDLE AND WESTERN national literature nature patriotic period Philadelphia Philip Freneau Poe's Poems poet poetic poetry political Prof prose Puritan REPUBLIC romance Scarlet Letter Series song South SOUTHERN LITERATURE spirit story STUDY LIST TABLE III.-LITERATURE Thomas Thomas Nelson Page thought tion ture verse Virginia West WESTERN LITERATURE Whitman Whittier whole William wrote York
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Página 141 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Página 149 - Each soldier's eye shall brightly turn To where thy sky-born glories burn, And, as his springing steps advance, Catch war and vengeance from the glance.
Página 94 - Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people.
Página 232 - I profess, sir, in my career hitherto to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country.
Página 14 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Página 61 - She will sometimes go about from place to place, singing sweetly; and seems to be always full of joy and pleasure; and no one knows for what. She loves to be alone, walking in the fields and groves, and seems to have some one invisible always conversing with her.
Página 89 - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! " It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Página 200 - They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
Página 52 - A living, breathing Bible; tables where Both covenants, at large, engraven were ; Gospel and law, in 's heart had each its column ; His head an index to the sacred volume ; His very name a titlepage ; and next, His life a commentary on the text. O, what a monument of glorious worth, When in a new edition he comes forth, Without erratas, may we think he'll be In leaves and covers of eternity...
Página 54 - I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on female wits: If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance.