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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... spirit of religious fanaticism : -the ally would be quite as pestilent as the enemy . We should never inquire into the faith or profes- sion , religious or political , of our acquaintance ; we should be satisfied when we find usefulness ...
... spirit of religious fanaticism : -the ally would be quite as pestilent as the enemy . We should never inquire into the faith or profes- sion , religious or political , of our acquaintance ; we should be satisfied when we find usefulness ...
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... spirit and perseverance unattainable by ordinary men , the larger portion of his time was given to the public , to benevolence , and to science . As a writer Dr. Drake is entitled to considera- tion in American literature , not from the ...
... spirit and perseverance unattainable by ordinary men , the larger portion of his time was given to the public , to benevolence , and to science . As a writer Dr. Drake is entitled to considera- tion in American literature , not from the ...
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... Spirit of the Pilgrims . * An Essay on The Past and the Present in the American Quarterly Observer for 1833 ; and another on Law as suited to Man , in the Biblical Repository for 1835 , conclude the list of our author's contribu- tions ...
... Spirit of the Pilgrims . * An Essay on The Past and the Present in the American Quarterly Observer for 1833 ; and another on Law as suited to Man , in the Biblical Repository for 1835 , conclude the list of our author's contribu- tions ...
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... spirit did ye urge- The Mystery - The Word . IV . Of the thousands , thou , both sepulchre and pall , Old Ocean , art ! A requiem o'er the dead , From out thy gloomy cells A tale of mourning tells- Tells of man's woe and fall , His ...
... spirit did ye urge- The Mystery - The Word . IV . Of the thousands , thou , both sepulchre and pall , Old Ocean , art ! A requiem o'er the dead , From out thy gloomy cells A tale of mourning tells- Tells of man's woe and fall , His ...
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... spirit quell . Within that evil heart there lie The hates and fears of hell . His speech is short ; he wears a surly brow . There's none will hear the shriek . What fear ye now ? The workings of the soul ye fear ; Ye fear the power that ...
... spirit quell . Within that evil heart there lie The hates and fears of hell . His speech is short ; he wears a surly brow . There's none will hear the shriek . What fear ye now ? The workings of the soul ye fear ; Ye fear the power that ...
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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!