Lectures on American Literature: With Remarks on Some Passages of American HistoryElam Bliss, 1829 - 300 sider |
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... reason , which is , that I know you are among the number who are anxious that we , as a people , should speak freely and justly of ourselves , and honestly strive to place our claims to national distinction on the broad basis of well ...
... reason , which is , that I know you are among the number who are anxious that we , as a people , should speak freely and justly of ourselves , and honestly strive to place our claims to national distinction on the broad basis of well ...
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... Reason for not mentioning living poets . Change of opinion on the possi- bility of uniting ornament with strength in our prose writing . Our own country as good for poetry as any other , and our own citizens as poeti- cal . LECTURE XI ...
... Reason for not mentioning living poets . Change of opinion on the possi- bility of uniting ornament with strength in our prose writing . Our own country as good for poetry as any other , and our own citizens as poeti- cal . LECTURE XI ...
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... reason , too , from cause to effect , before any delicacies of poetry can be developed ; but the strong ebullitions of genius raving to soar to the regions of light and futurity , are scattered through the early ages of poetry ; and ...
... reason , too , from cause to effect , before any delicacies of poetry can be developed ; but the strong ebullitions of genius raving to soar to the regions of light and futurity , are scattered through the early ages of poetry ; and ...
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... reason- ings , his anticipations , and even his imaginings , belong to the litera- ture of the world ; yea , more - the descriptions of his country , of his kindred and friends ; of the flowers on which he treads , and of the fountains ...
... reason- ings , his anticipations , and even his imaginings , belong to the litera- ture of the world ; yea , more - the descriptions of his country , of his kindred and friends ; of the flowers on which he treads , and of the fountains ...
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... to glance at these , and throw them aside as understood by his audience , while the lecturer has a right to enter into the most minute details , to reason upon them when he chooses , and to draw inferences from such 34 LECTURES ON.
... to glance at these , and throw them aside as understood by his audience , while the lecturer has a right to enter into the most minute details , to reason upon them when he chooses , and to draw inferences from such 34 LECTURES ON.
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Side 20 - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove: But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No...
Side 65 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Side 210 - And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth ? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I, the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
Side 18 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Side 65 - In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true...
Side 21 - Different minds Incline to different objects : one pursues The vast alone, the wonderful, the wild ; Another sighs for harmony, and grace, And gentlest beauty. Hence when lightning fires The arch of Heaven, and thunders rock the ground, When furious whirlwinds rend the howling air, And Ocean, groaning from...
Side 18 - To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils, with infinite Manslaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory...
Side 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the tenth day of August, AD 1829, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, JP Dabney, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit...
Side 210 - And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people : and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
Side 224 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...