An Introduction to American LiteratureH. Holt, 1898 - 393 pages |
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AMERICAN HISTORY American Literature Anne Bradstreet Bayard Taylor beauty Biography and Criticism born Boston Bryant century character Charles charm College Colonies Cooper Cotton Mather died early Edgar Allan Poe edited Edwards Emerson ENGLAND LITERATURE ENGLISH HISTORY English literature Essays Franklin Freneau genius George George William Curtis greatest Hawthorne Henry HISTORY AND LITERATURE Holmes humor ideal influence intellectual Irving Irving's James James Fenimore Cooper John Jonathan Edwards land Lanier letters lished litera literary lived Longfellow Lowell Magazine ment MIDDLE AND WESTERN MIDDLE STATES LITERATURE national literature nature patriotism period Philadelphia Philip Freneau Poe's Poems poet poetic poetry political prose Puritan REPUBLIC romance Scarlet Letter Series Simms song South SOUTHERN LITERATURE spirit story STUDY LIST Thomas Nelson Page thought tion ture verse Virginia Walt Whitman WESTERN LITERATURE Whitman Whittier whole William wrote York
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Page 18 - concerning the condition of Virginia: " I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both.
Page 145 - 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 234 - of the whole country and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country.
Page 65 - She will sometimes go about from place to place, singing sweetly; and seems to be always full of joy and pleasure ; and no one knows for what. She loves to be alone, walking in the fields and groves, and seems to have some one invisible always conversing with
Page 93 - Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable, and let it come. . . . Is life so dear or peace so
Page 64 - the sky and the clouds, there came into my mind so sweet a sense of the glorious majesty and grace of God as I know not how to express. . . . After this my sense of divine things gradually increased, and became more and more lively, and had more
Page 99 - Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.
Page 202 - They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; ***** They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
Page 202 - New occasions teach new duties, Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still and onward who would keep abreast of Truth.
Page 56 - at large, engraven were ; Gospel and Law, in's heart, had each its column ,• His head an index to the sacred volume ; His very name a title,page ; and next, His life a commentary on the text. O, what a monument of glorious worth, When, in a new