History of American LiteratureRand, McNally, 1919 - 376 Seiten |
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American Literature American poets artistic ballad beautiful became born Boston Bret Harte Bronson Bryant Calhoun and MacAlarney called century character College colonial Concord Cooper critical death early Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Lee Masters edition editor Emerson England English essays fame famous father Harvard Hawthorne Hayne Henry Henry Timrod Holmes humor imagists Irving James James Russell Lowell John journal Lanier later letters literary lived Longfellow Lowell Lowell's lyric Magazine Mark Twain Massachusetts narrative nature notable novelists novels orator patriotic Paul Hamilton Hayne period Poe's poems poetical poetry political popular productions prose published Puritan religious Revolutionary romance satire Selections short stories Sir Launfal sketches song South Southern Stedman and Hutchinson style success Thomas Bailey Aldrich Thoreau verse Virginia volume Walt Whitman West Western Whittier William William Dean Howells written wrote York young readers
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Seite 42 - we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery! Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! Henry's
Seite 42 - It is vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, "peace, peace!"—but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field!
Seite 163 - on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee, — are all with thee.
Seite 121 - Majestic monarch of the cloud, Who rear'st aloft thy regal form, To hear the tempest trumpings loud And see the lightning lances driven, When strive the warriors of the storm, And rolls the thunder-drum of heaven, Child of the sun! to thee 't is given To guard the banner of the free, To hover in the sulphur smoke, And
Seite 144 - As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime: "Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.
Seite 261 - He weren't no saint, — but at jedgment I 'd run my chance with Jim, 'Longside of some pious gentlemen That wouldn't shook hands with him. He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing, — And went for it thar and then; And Christ ain't a-going to be too hard On a man that died for men.
Seite 196 - character, it contains some fine thoughts and notable passages, such as, Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,— Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standcth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Seite 264 - noon intermission, or at sundown; The delicious singing of the mother — or of the young wife at work — or of the girl sewing or washing — Each singing what belongs to her, and to none else; The day what belongs to the day — At night, the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, Singing, with open mouths, their strong melodious songs.
Seite 215 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; — Not that which we give, but what we share, — For the gift without the giver is bare. Lowell's
Seite 56 - country much better than that wherein either he or his forefathers were born. Here the rewards of his industry follow, with equal steps, the progress of his labor. His labor is founded on the basis of nature—self-interest: Can it want a stronger allurement? Wives and children, who before in vain demanded of him a morsel of bread, now,