Studies in Philology, Volume 23University of North Carolina Press, 1926 - Electronic journals |
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... mean rank . By 1835 also , there had been published in America as many as thirty books of travels in England , and the distinguished American visitors who had left less formal records numbered many hundreds , among them Longfellow ...
... mean rank . By 1835 also , there had been published in America as many as thirty books of travels in England , and the distinguished American visitors who had left less formal records numbered many hundreds , among them Longfellow ...
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... means of attack . Morse saw that diplomacy was needed and immediately greeted Coleridge with the statement that he and Leslie had just been discussing the nature of beauty and wanted his opinion . Leslie sensed the situation and took up ...
... means of attack . Morse saw that diplomacy was needed and immediately greeted Coleridge with the statement that he and Leslie had just been discussing the nature of beauty and wanted his opinion . Leslie sensed the situation and took up ...
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... means of preserving peace and harmony among the nations . ... The Lenape , unfortunately for themselves , listened to the voice of their enemies . They believed that the Mengwe were sincere , and that this proposal had no object in view ...
... means of preserving peace and harmony among the nations . ... The Lenape , unfortunately for themselves , listened to the voice of their enemies . They believed that the Mengwe were sincere , and that this proposal had no object in view ...
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... mean to persuade as well as convince , they take the shortest way to reach the heart . I know that their oratorical powers have been strongly controverted , and this is not astonishing , when we consider the prejudice that exists ...
... mean to persuade as well as convince , they take the shortest way to reach the heart . I know that their oratorical powers have been strongly controverted , and this is not astonishing , when we consider the prejudice that exists ...
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... means which they pursue for the annoyance and destruction of their adversaries , and that surprise and stratagem are as often employed as open force.10 وو Heckewelder repeatedly maintains that he is not picturing Indians " who have been ...
... means which they pursue for the annoyance and destruction of their adversaries , and that surprise and stratagem are as often employed as open force.10 وو Heckewelder repeatedly maintains that he is not picturing Indians " who have been ...
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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.