Famous Authors and the Best Literature of England and America ...: Together with Choice Selections from Their Writings ...William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones |
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... true history is biography , and in the lives of English and American authors may be read not only the story of how our literature has grown from the abortive attempts at poetry in which our Saxon forefathers endeavored to express ...
... true history is biography , and in the lives of English and American authors may be read not only the story of how our literature has grown from the abortive attempts at poetry in which our Saxon forefathers endeavored to express ...
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... true that " if you understand the character of an author the comprehension of his writings becomes easy , " and it is also true that " every author portrays himself in his works , even though it be against his will " ; and so the union ...
... true that " if you understand the character of an author the comprehension of his writings becomes easy , " and it is also true that " every author portrays himself in his works , even though it be against his will " ; and so the union ...
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... True Hero , ' 320 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL . ucation , .. ' Mountain and Squirrel , ' " The Snow - storm , ' The Problem , ' ' Traveling , ' JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER . Whittier's Humble Birth , Ancestry , Ed- Poet of the Abolitionists , 321 ...
... True Hero , ' 320 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL . ucation , .. ' Mountain and Squirrel , ' " The Snow - storm , ' The Problem , ' ' Traveling , ' JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER . Whittier's Humble Birth , Ancestry , Ed- Poet of the Abolitionists , 321 ...
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... True Love , ' The Discovery of New York , JOEL C. HARRIS ( Uncle Remus ) . Birth and Humble Circumstances , In the Office of the Countryman , • Architect of Her Own Fortune , In the Government Hospitals , LOUISA M. ALCOTT . Her Early ...
... True Love , ' The Discovery of New York , JOEL C. HARRIS ( Uncle Remus ) . Birth and Humble Circumstances , In the Office of the Countryman , • Architect of Her Own Fortune , In the Government Hospitals , LOUISA M. ALCOTT . Her Early ...
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... true sense , an English language . Until this time the Norman - French of the nobles and the Saxon of the lower orders had marked the differences of thought and feeling between the conquerors and the conquered race , but gradually they ...
... true sense , an English language . Until this time the Norman - French of the nobles and the Saxon of the lower orders had marked the differences of thought and feeling between the conquerors and the conquered race , but gradually they ...
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Page 81 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied.
Page 97 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own.
Page 78 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 114 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Page 55 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Page 53 - And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.
Page 54 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels trumpet-tongued against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Page 97 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed— in breeze, or gale, or storm — Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible...
Page 303 - But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. Nothing further then he uttered — not a feather then he fluttered — Till I scarcely more than muttered, "Other friends have flown before. On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.
Page 51 - Love thyself last ; cherish those hearts that hate thee : Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's; then, if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.