History of American LiteratureAmerican Book Company, 1911 - 431 psl. This volume describes the greatest achievements in American literature, from the earliest times to the present. Special attention has been paid to the individual works of great authors, but also to literary movements, ideals, and animating principles, and the relation of all these to English literature. The author hopes this book will inspire students to investigate for themselves the remarkable American record of spirituality, initiative, and democratic accomplishment contained in our national literature. |
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... city , without ever having traveled a hundred miles from it . He entered Harvard at the age of eleven , and took the bachelor's degree at fifteen . His life shows such an overemphasis of certain Puritan traits as almost to presage the ...
... city , without ever having traveled a hundred miles from it . He entered Harvard at the age of eleven , and took the bachelor's degree at fifteen . His life shows such an overemphasis of certain Puritan traits as almost to presage the ...
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... City of Destruction and to reach the City of All De- light ; ( 3 ) John Dryden ( 1631-1700 ) , a master in the field of satiric and didactic verse and one of the pioneers in the field of modern prose criticism ; ( 4 ) Alexander Pope ...
... City of Destruction and to reach the City of All De- light ; ( 3 ) John Dryden ( 1631-1700 ) , a master in the field of satiric and didactic verse and one of the pioneers in the field of modern prose criticism ; ( 4 ) Alexander Pope ...
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... cities , a branch library , frequented by the humble and unlearned , reports that in one year his Autobiography was called for four hun- dred times , and a life of him , containing many of Poor Richard's sayings , was asked for more ...
... cities , a branch library , frequented by the humble and unlearned , reports that in one year his Autobiography was called for four hun- dred times , and a life of him , containing many of Poor Richard's sayings , was asked for more ...
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... City was the birthplace of Freneau , the greatest poet born in America before the Revolutionary War . He graduated at Princeton in 1771 , and became a school teacher , sea captain , poet , and editor . The Revolution broke out when he ...
... City was the birthplace of Freneau , the greatest poet born in America before the Revolutionary War . He graduated at Princeton in 1771 , and became a school teacher , sea captain , poet , and editor . The Revolution broke out when he ...
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... City in the same year as the English poet , John Keats , in London . Drake and Keats studied medicine , and both died of consumption at the age of twenty - five . Halleck was born in Guilford , Connecticut , but moved to New York in ...
... City in the same year as the English poet , John Keats , in London . Drake and Keats studied medicine , and both died of consumption at the age of twenty - five . Halleck was born in Guilford , Connecticut , but moved to New York in ...
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139 psl. - The hills 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.
71 psl. - Gentlemen may cry peace! peace! but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
196 psl. - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
314 psl. - As the marsh-hen secretly builds on the watery sod, Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God: I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies: By so many roots as the marsh-grass sends in the sod I will heartily lay me a-hold on the greatness of God...
298 psl. - DURING THE WHOLE of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
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199 psl. - I learned this, at least, by my experiment -, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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383 psl. - I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear; Those of mechanics — each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong; The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his, as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work; The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat — the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck; The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench — the hatter singing as he stands; The wood-cutter's song — the...
68 psl. - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
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A History of the English Curriculum in American High Schools Donald E. Stahl Trumpų ištraukų rodinys - 1965 |