Studies in Philology, Volume 23University of North Carolina Press, 1926 - Electronic journals |
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... early love and disappointment . There was reason for staying at Newstead also ; for its new master , Colonel Wildman , was among the most cordial of country - house gentlemen in England . Fourteen years after Byron had so despoiled it ...
... early love and disappointment . There was reason for staying at Newstead also ; for its new master , Colonel Wildman , was among the most cordial of country - house gentlemen in England . Fourteen years after Byron had so despoiled it ...
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... early reputation.24 Irving's literary interest in England's past was , however , shared by many of his fellow visitors from America . The most universally appealing association was , of course , that of Stratford and Shake- speare . On ...
... early reputation.24 Irving's literary interest in England's past was , however , shared by many of his fellow visitors from America . The most universally appealing association was , of course , that of Stratford and Shake- speare . On ...
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... early native America , together with his rigid conception of right and justice , led him to consider the Indians not as obstacles in the pathway of civilization , but as a people of native abilities and virtues that warranted ...
... early native America , together with his rigid conception of right and justice , led him to consider the Indians not as obstacles in the pathway of civilization , but as a people of native abilities and virtues that warranted ...
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... early disappearance of the Indians.2 Before the coming of the white men , the Algonquins probably occupied the head waters of the Susquehanna River , and the Lenni Lenape of that nation claimed the region . At a later time , proba- bly ...
... early disappearance of the Indians.2 Before the coming of the white men , the Algonquins probably occupied the head waters of the Susquehanna River , and the Lenni Lenape of that nation claimed the region . At a later time , proba- bly ...
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... early Indians . The volume of 1819 , which included the Indian Nations , was highly praised by the early reviewers , but after a few years Heckewelder and his publications were severely attacked . Allibone says : His account of the ...
... early Indians . The volume of 1819 , which included the Indian Nations , was highly praised by the early reviewers , but after a few years Heckewelder and his publications were severely attacked . Allibone says : His account of the ...
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Page 72 - The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space, while it is blended with, and modified by, that empirical phenomenon of the will which we express by the word choice. But equally with the ordinary memory the fancy must receive all its materials ready made from the law of association.
Page 72 - The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
Page 77 - I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of "Leaves of Grass." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed.
Page 432 - So stretch'd out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay, Chain'd on the burning lake : nor ever thence Had risen, or heav'd his head ; but that the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs...
Page 72 - I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate; or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it Struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.
Page 192 - The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. What! do I fear myself? there's none else by Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.
Page 40 - So far as I am a man of really individual attributes I veil my face ; nor am I, nor have I ever been, one of those supremely hospitable people who serve up their own hearts, delicately fried, with brain sauce, as a tidbit for their beloved public.
Page 171 - As, when far off at sea, a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs; they, on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seem'd Far off the flying fiend.
Page 72 - Ah! then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw; and add the gleam The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile!
Page 192 - The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors, That feelingly persuade me what I am.