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... American and foreign writers , were con- tributed by Mr. Poe to various journals , chiefly in the last four or five years of his life . ] In a criticism on Bryant I was at some pains in pointing out the distinction between the popular ...
... American and foreign writers , were con- tributed by Mr. Poe to various journals , chiefly in the last four or five years of his life . ] In a criticism on Bryant I was at some pains in pointing out the distinction between the popular ...
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... American Review , " a Whig magazine of the higher ( that is to say , of the five dollar ) class . I must not be understood as meaning any disrespect to the work . It is , in my opinion , by far the best of its order in this country ...
... American Review , " a Whig magazine of the higher ( that is to say , of the five dollar ) class . I must not be understood as meaning any disrespect to the work . It is , in my opinion , by far the best of its order in this country ...
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... American . His literary life , in especial , has been one continual émeute ; but then his literary character is modified or impelled in a very remarkable degree by his personal one . His success ( for in point of fame , if of nothing ...
... American . His literary life , in especial , has been one continual émeute ; but then his literary character is modified or impelled in a very remarkable degree by his personal one . His success ( for in point of fame , if of nothing ...
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... American collegiate lore- " a little Latin and less Greek , " a smattering of physical and metaphysical science , and ( I should judge ) a very little of the mathematics - but all this must be considered as mere guess on my part . Mr ...
... American collegiate lore- " a little Latin and less Greek , " a smattering of physical and metaphysical science , and ( I should judge ) a very little of the mathematics - but all this must be considered as mere guess on my part . Mr ...
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... American . Mr. Willis has made very few attempts at criticism , and those few ( chiefly newspaper articles ) have not impressed me with a high idea of his analytic abilities , although with a very high idea of his taste and ...
... American . Mr. Willis has made very few attempts at criticism , and those few ( chiefly newspaper articles ) have not impressed me with a high idea of his analytic abilities , although with a very high idea of his taste and ...
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Page 308 - And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe; For all averred I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow!
Page 59 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 174 - In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace — Radiant palace — reared its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion, It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair! Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago...
Page 329 - So live, that when thy summons comes, to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 185 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 323 - FULL knee-deep lies the winter snow, And the winter winds are wearily sighing : Toll ye the church-bell sad and slow, And tread softly and speak low, For the old year lies a-dying. Old year, you must not die ; You came to us so readily, You lived with us so steadily, Old year, you shall not die.
Page 293 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours.
Page 197 - In the whole composition there should be no word written of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one preestablished design.
Page 252 - He acts upon the principle that if a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well: — and the thing that he "does" especially well is the public.
Page 210 - And star-dials pointed to morn, As the star-dials hinted of morn, At the end of our path a liquescent And nebulous lustre was born, Out of which a miraculous crescent Arose with a duplicate horn, Astarte's bediamonded crescent Distinct with its duplicate horn.