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... never need be , the method is chiefly descriptive ; elsewhere the book is intended to be merely a guide in reading and studying the literature itself . I wish to express my indebtedness , for inspiration and guidance and occasionally ...
... never need be , the method is chiefly descriptive ; elsewhere the book is intended to be merely a guide in reading and studying the literature itself . I wish to express my indebtedness , for inspiration and guidance and occasionally ...
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... never mentions ; no doubt to her , as to all her sect , they were sons of Belial . Her favorite poets seem to have been of the " fantastic " school , who had more gift for puns and quirks and ingenious con- ceits than for the passion ...
... never mentions ; no doubt to her , as to all her sect , they were sons of Belial . Her favorite poets seem to have been of the " fantastic " school , who had more gift for puns and quirks and ingenious con- ceits than for the passion ...
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... never to return , and even Cotton Mather battled for it in vain.2 1 Glasgow University gave him the degree of D.D .; and it is now known that he really was made a Fellow of the Royal Society ( see Cotton Mather's Election into the Royal ...
... never to return , and even Cotton Mather battled for it in vain.2 1 Glasgow University gave him the degree of D.D .; and it is now known that he really was made a Fellow of the Royal Society ( see Cotton Mather's Election into the Royal ...
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... never yet produc'd so vile a spawn ; 1 - of John Jay , - .... to him these characters belong ; Sure sense of right , with fix'd pursuit of wrong ; An outside keen , where malice makes abode , Voice of a lark and venom of a toad ; 2 of ...
... never yet produc'd so vile a spawn ; 1 - of John Jay , - .... to him these characters belong ; Sure sense of right , with fix'd pursuit of wrong ; An outside keen , where malice makes abode , Voice of a lark and venom of a toad ; 2 of ...
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... never a hard student of that abstruse subject . Of more value to the future author of Rip Van Winkle were the days spent with his gun in Sleepy Hollow in 1798 , and a voyage up the Hudson two years later , where ( he says ) the ...
... never a hard student of that abstruse subject . Of more value to the future author of Rip Van Winkle were the days spent with his gun in Sleepy Hollow in 1798 , and a voyage up the Hudson two years later , where ( he says ) the ...
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Page 387 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Page 400 - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...
Page 389 - Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side? There is a Power, whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 415 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main; The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming Lair.
Page 416 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 362 - God's excellency, his wisdom, his purity and love, seemed to appear in every thing; in the sun, moon and stars; in the clouds, and blue sky; in the grass, flowers, trees ; in the water, and all nature ; which used greatly to fix my mind.
Page 436 - Tis the six-and-twentieth edition, promulgated at Boston, Anno Domini, 1744; and is entitled, 'The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testaments; faithfully translated into English Metre, for the Use, Edification, and Comfort of the Saints in Publick and Private especially in New-England.
Page 388 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 394 - Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavor; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the...
Page 175 - Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away!