Southern Literature from 1579-1895: A Comprehensive Review, with Copions Extracts and Criticisms. For the Use of Schools and the General Reader, Containing an Appendix with a Full List of Southern Authors |
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... Poems : " Days of My Youth , " and others . Probationary Odes of Jonathan Pindar , Esq . , [ Satires ] . Commentary on the Constitution . Dissertation on Slavery : Letters on Alien and Sedition Laws . Annotated Edition of Blackstone ...
... Poems : " Days of My Youth , " and others . Probationary Odes of Jonathan Pindar , Esq . , [ Satires ] . Commentary on the Constitution . Dissertation on Slavery : Letters on Alien and Sedition Laws . Annotated Edition of Blackstone ...
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... Poems , with a sketch by Chief - Justice Taney . THE STAR - SPANGLED BANNER . Oh ! say can you see by the dawn's early light , What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming ? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the ...
... Poems , with a sketch by Chief - Justice Taney . THE STAR - SPANGLED BANNER . Oh ! say can you see by the dawn's early light , What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming ? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the ...
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... poem , suggested by the life and adven- tures of his brother , James Wilde , in the Seminole war . But it was never finished : all that remains of it now is the fine lyric , " My Life is Like the Summer Rose . " This song was translated ...
... poem , suggested by the life and adven- tures of his brother , James Wilde , in the Seminole war . But it was never finished : all that remains of it now is the fine lyric , " My Life is Like the Summer Rose . " This song was translated ...
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... poems . ) Petrarch . Poems , original and translated . Life of Dante , [ unfinished . ] Hesperia . MY LIFE IS LIKE THE SUMMER ROSE . My life is like the summer rose , That opens to the morning sky , And ere the shades of evening close ...
... poems . ) Petrarch . Poems , original and translated . Life of Dante , [ unfinished . ] Hesperia . MY LIFE IS LIKE THE SUMMER ROSE . My life is like the summer rose , That opens to the morning sky , And ere the shades of evening close ...
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... poems , and dissertations , which are now collected in his library , and , with their bat- tered blue covers , present a lively type of an army of con- tinentals at the close of the war , or a hospital of invalids . These have all at ...
... poems , and dissertations , which are now collected in his library , and , with their bat- tered blue covers , present a lively type of an army of con- tinentals at the close of the war , or a hospital of invalids . These have all at ...
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Page 283 - This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore ! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch...
Page 282 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not a...
Page 80 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty.
Page 284 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend! " I shrieked, upstarting' "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 82 - And can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity...
Page 282 - That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door; Darkness there and nothing more. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore!
Page 281 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "T is some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door Only this and nothing more.
Page 153 - O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more ? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps
Page 81 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 87 - The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable—and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry " Peace, peace "—but there...