Lectures on American Literature: With Remarks on Some Passages of American HistoryElam Bliss, 1829 - 300 sider |
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... thought by you , and those like you , capable of judging , that I have opened the cause fairly , and made out a respectable brief to hand to others , will be sufficient praise for me ; I will not , in these few lines , devoted to ...
... thought by you , and those like you , capable of judging , that I have opened the cause fairly , and made out a respectable brief to hand to others , will be sufficient praise for me ; I will not , in these few lines , devoted to ...
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... thought suggested itself to my mind , that no adequate compensation could ever be reasonably ex- pected for my pains ; and then the consciousness that I was in some measure trespassing upon my professional pursuits , went far to quench ...
... thought suggested itself to my mind , that no adequate compensation could ever be reasonably ex- pected for my pains ; and then the consciousness that I was in some measure trespassing upon my professional pursuits , went far to quench ...
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... thought ; and taste and euphony have , at times , made some exertions to drop one class of words and assume another ; but they have destroyed none ; and as occasion requires , those left out of fashionable use , for a season , have ...
... thought ; and taste and euphony have , at times , made some exertions to drop one class of words and assume another ; but they have destroyed none ; and as occasion requires , those left out of fashionable use , for a season , have ...
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... thought improper by those who object to the attention paid to the learned languages . The origin , the history , the sweetness , the copiousness , the force and ma- jesty , and importance of the English language , are subjects worthy ...
... thought improper by those who object to the attention paid to the learned languages . The origin , the history , the sweetness , the copiousness , the force and ma- jesty , and importance of the English language , are subjects worthy ...
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... thought . By these simple elements the nice shades of difference in thought could be no more than indicated , not fully conveyed b-- the words written ; therefore much was left to the 14 LECTURES ON.
... thought . By these simple elements the nice shades of difference in thought could be no more than indicated , not fully conveyed b-- the words written ; therefore much was left to the 14 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...