The Masterpieces and the History of Literature1902 |
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... whole fully in various biographies . This work is concerned not with his honorable achievements as statesman and diplomatist , nor with his public - spirited activity as a citizen , nor with his dis- coveries in science and their ...
... whole fully in various biographies . This work is concerned not with his honorable achievements as statesman and diplomatist , nor with his public - spirited activity as a citizen , nor with his dis- coveries in science and their ...
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For age and want save while you may ; No morning sun lasts a whole day . Gain may be temporary and uncertain , but ever , while you live , expense is constant and certain ; and It is easier to build two chimneys , than to keep one in ...
For age and want save while you may ; No morning sun lasts a whole day . Gain may be temporary and uncertain , but ever , while you live , expense is constant and certain ; and It is easier to build two chimneys , than to keep one in ...
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... whole study is to please me . She is at this moment gone to fetch the best nectar and ambrosia to regale me ; stay here awhile and you will see her . " " I perceive , " said I , “ that your former friend is more faithful to you than you ...
... whole study is to please me . She is at this moment gone to fetch the best nectar and ambrosia to regale me ; stay here awhile and you will see her . " " I perceive , " said I , “ that your former friend is more faithful to you than you ...
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... whole inventions , To feed their brats on posts and pensions , Made ev'n Scotch friends with taxes groan , And pick'd poor Ireland to the bone ; Yet have on hand as well deserving , Ten thousand bastards left for starving ? And can you ...
... whole inventions , To feed their brats on posts and pensions , Made ev'n Scotch friends with taxes groan , And pick'd poor Ireland to the bone ; Yet have on hand as well deserving , Ten thousand bastards left for starving ? And can you ...
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... whole apparatus of thrilling mysteries from the ghostly castles and cloisters of Europe to the plain brick or wooden dwellings of what had just been the colonies . When the mysteries refused to be so " cribbed , cabined and confined ...
... whole apparatus of thrilling mysteries from the ghostly castles and cloisters of Europe to the plain brick or wooden dwellings of what had just been the colonies . When the mysteries refused to be so " cribbed , cabined and confined ...
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American ASTARTE beautiful bells bird born bosom breath bright Byron child cried dark dead death deep Deerslayer delight Donatello door dream earth Eginhard England English eyes face fame father fear feel fire flowers gaze genius hand head hear heard heart heaven Hester Hester Prynne Hilda human Ichabod Crane Indian JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Leigh Hunt light literary literature lived lived seventy-nine look melancholy mind Miriam nature never night o'er passed PETER STUYVESANT pilot poems poet poetry poor replied returned Rip Van Winkle romance round seemed ship silent smile song Song of Hiawatha soul speak spirit stood story strange sweet Tamenund tell thee thing THOMAS FAED thou thought tion tree turned Uncas Uncle Tom's Cabin Undine verse village voice wild wind words wrote young youth
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Page 136 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore, Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore.
Page 137 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door...
Page 249 - High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised : But for those first affections Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Page 212 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.
Page 141 - Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.
Page 250 - I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Page 131 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 237 - All in a hot and copper sky The bloody sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the moon.
Page 218 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: — Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 242 - Had thrilled my guileless Genevieve; The music and the doleful tale, The rich and balmy eve; And hopes, and fears that kindle hope, An undistinguishable throng, And gentle wishes long subdued, Subdued and cherished long. She wept with pity and delight, She blushed with love, and virgin shame; And like the murmur of a dream, I heard her breathe my name. Her bosom heaved, — • she stepped aside, As conscious of my look she stept, — Then suddenly, with timorous eye She fled to me and wept.