Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings. From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; with Portraits, Autographs, and Other Illustrations, Volume 2C. Scribner, 1856 - American literature |
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... Yale College in 1802 , on the completion of his course studied law at the celebrated school of Litchfield , and was admitted to practice in 1807 . In 1808 he was elected to the Legislature of South Carolina , and in 1811 to the National ...
... Yale College in 1802 , on the completion of his course studied law at the celebrated school of Litchfield , and was admitted to practice in 1807 . In 1808 he was elected to the Legislature of South Carolina , and in 1811 to the National ...
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... Yale College . His early years were watched over with great care by an excellent mother , to whom he warmly expressed his gratitude in his subsequent poems . Entering Yale College he completed his course in 1804 , and passed the ...
... Yale College . His early years were watched over with great care by an excellent mother , to whom he warmly expressed his gratitude in his subsequent poems . Entering Yale College he completed his course in 1804 , and passed the ...
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... Yale ; Dr. Brown had held the chair of Moral Philosophy in Columbia College , South Carolina ; Dr. Waddel , one of the most popular teachers of the South , was a native of North Carolina ... COLLEGE , MARYLAND . 77 ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, MD.
... Yale ; Dr. Brown had held the chair of Moral Philosophy in Columbia College , South Carolina ; Dr. Waddel , one of the most popular teachers of the South , was a native of North Carolina ... COLLEGE , MARYLAND . 77 ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, MD.
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... college in the grammar - school of his native town , and under a private tutor in the office of Chief Justice Parsons . He entered Yale College , and deli- vered the valedictory oration at the conclusion of his course in 1805. After ...
... college in the grammar - school of his native town , and under a private tutor in the office of Chief Justice Parsons . He entered Yale College , and deli- vered the valedictory oration at the conclusion of his course in 1805. After ...
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... Yale College , and travelled with Dr. Dwight during one of his vacations . Returning home , he studied law in the office of Mr. Langdon Cheves , and gradually at- tained distinction at the bar and in the politics of his state . His most ...
... Yale College , and travelled with Dr. Dwight during one of his vacations . Returning home , he studied law in the office of Mr. Langdon Cheves , and gradually at- tained distinction at the bar and in the politics of his state . His most ...
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Page 186 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, - the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods - rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 33 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Page 349 - Woodman, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough ! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand, Thy axe shall harm it not. That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea — And wouldst thou hew it down? Woodman, forbear thy stroke! Cut not its earth-bound ties...
Page 187 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light, and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
Page 211 - Her soldier, closing with the foe, Gives for thy sake a deadlier blow; His plighted maiden, when she fears For him, the Joy of her young years, Thinks of thy fate and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys. Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried Joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth Talk of thy doom without a sigh: For thou art freedom's now and fame's, One of the few, the immortal names, That...
Page 367 - Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone; And Morning opes with haste her lids, To gaze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye; For, out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air; And Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat.
Page 187 - THE melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, And meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, The autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, And to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, And from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow Through all the gloomy day.
Page 187 - Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart, Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone Will lead my steps aright.
Page 33 - Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proofs of its utility and its blessings ; and although our territory has stretched out, wider and wider, and our population spread farther and farther, they have not outrun its protection, or its benefits. It has been to us all, a copious fountain of national, social, and personal happiness.
Page 33 - It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats, retraces his steps to the window, passes out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder. No eye has seen him; no ear has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe!