Literary and Social EssaysHarper & brothers, 1894 - 293 strani |
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American artist Autocrat beauty Blithedale Romance Boston Bryant called character Charlotte Brontë charm Concord delight Donatello Emerson England English essay eyes fame famous fancy fascination feeling figure flower gayety genius gentleman grace grave Hawthorne Hawthorne's heart Henry Thoreau hill Holmes Holmes's human humor imagination intellectual Irving's knew Knickerbocker Languet letters literary literature lived Longfellow Lowell melody Miles Coverdale mind moral nature never noble Old Manse Paris passed passion pensive Philip Sidney picture play poems poet poetic political portrait published Puritan Queen Rachel Rappaccini's Daughter reader REESE LIBRARY Rip Van Winkle river romance Salem says Scarlet Letter seems silent sing singers Sketch Book smile song spirit story sweet sympathy taste tender Thackeray thought tion touch town UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA verse village voice Washington Irving Wendell Phillips William of Orange writing wrote young youth
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Stran 152 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Stran 250 - 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.
Stran 85 - No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
Stran 173 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Stran 212 - In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Stran 172 - Love my memory, cherish my friends ; their faith to me may assure you they are honest. But, above all, govern your will and affections by the will and word of your Creator ; in me, beholding the end of this world, with all her vanities.
Stran 10 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.
Stran 11 - On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.
Stran 221 - The wild flowers who will stoop to number ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them ; — Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them ! Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their hearts...
Stran 175 - For to what purpose should our thoughts be directed to various kinds of knowledge, unless room be afforded for putting it into practice, so that public advantage may be the result...