Lectures on American Literature: With Remarks on Some Passages of American HistoryElam Bliss, 1829 - 300 sider |
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... writing . Our own country as good for poetry as any other , and our own citizens as poeti- cal . LECTURE XI . 163 The fine arts of a later growth than poetry ; the causes . The artists who were born or flourished in America . Smybert ...
... writing . Our own country as good for poetry as any other , and our own citizens as poeti- cal . LECTURE XI . 163 The fine arts of a later growth than poetry ; the causes . The artists who were born or flourished in America . Smybert ...
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... written one , and was soon expanded and improved by the attentive study of it among those ecclesiastics , who wished to diffuse through it the knowledge of the scriptures , until then a sealed book to the Saxons , and then only ...
... written one , and was soon expanded and improved by the attentive study of it among those ecclesiastics , who wished to diffuse through it the knowledge of the scriptures , until then a sealed book to the Saxons , and then only ...
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... written in Saxon , and then set about enlarging the narrow limits of the Saxon muses , by compositions of his own , which , in fact , sur- passed in excellence all the poetry of his country , as he did his pre- decessors in civilization ...
... written in Saxon , and then set about enlarging the narrow limits of the Saxon muses , by compositions of his own , which , in fact , sur- passed in excellence all the poetry of his country , as he did his pre- decessors in civilization ...
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... conveyance of refined or extend- ed 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.
... conveyance of refined or extend- ed 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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... written compositions . The oral communication was then a better method of conveying ideas than the record , however fully exemplified by the scanty lan- guage then in use , without taking into consideration the charm there has always ...
... written compositions . The oral communication was then a better method of conveying ideas than the record , however fully exemplified by the scanty lan- guage then in use , without taking into consideration the charm there has always ...
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acquainted admiration American Anarchiad army beauty Boston British called century character charm colonies command commenced Congress Connecticut Cotton Mather course death deliberative assemblies distinguished divine duties early elegance eloquence England English English language fame father feelings fight friends gave genius give glory governor Harvard College heart historian honour hundred Increase Mather Indians John Adams John the Chaplain knew knowledge labours language learning lectures letters liberty literary literature lived Massachusetts mind monument mother muse nation nature naval navy neral never New-England New-York orator painter passed patriot perhaps period poet poetry political profession province publick racter Rhode Island Saxon scholar soldiers soon soul South Carolina spirit style superiour sweet talents taste thing thought tion Tripoli verse vessels Virginia Washington words writer written wrote Yale College youth
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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...