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Strana vi
... impression of the range and character of each author's production , and , in some cases , of the degree to which he expressed dominant moods of national feeling . AUGUST 1 , 1898 . G. R. C. CONTENTS PAGE xi I 4 6 8 ΙΟ II 13 vi PREFACE.
... impression of the range and character of each author's production , and , in some cases , of the degree to which he expressed dominant moods of national feeling . AUGUST 1 , 1898 . G. R. C. CONTENTS PAGE xi I 4 6 8 ΙΟ II 13 vi PREFACE.
Strana ix
... Character Cambridge Thirty Years Ago Keats's Poetry WALT WHITMAN • PAGE HARRY THURSTON PECK 257 260 · 262 264 • 265 LEWIS EDWARDS GATES 268 · 276 278 284 · 295 299 • . NORMAN HAPGOOD 303 RICHARD BURTON 308 312 319 EDWARD EVERETT HALE ...
... Character Cambridge Thirty Years Ago Keats's Poetry WALT WHITMAN • PAGE HARRY THURSTON PECK 257 260 · 262 264 • 265 LEWIS EDWARDS GATES 268 · 276 278 284 · 295 299 • . NORMAN HAPGOOD 303 RICHARD BURTON 308 312 319 EDWARD EVERETT HALE ...
Strana xii
... character of our literature became individual almost in proportion as the character of the nation became distinct . American literature has never become independent of outside influences , nor ceased often to follow foreign models . No ...
... character of our literature became individual almost in proportion as the character of the nation became distinct . American literature has never become independent of outside influences , nor ceased often to follow foreign models . No ...
Strana xv
... were distinct differences in the character of the English language as spoken by the two larger branches of the race . Ill - advised British writers comment freely - of on our Americanisms , and we take a AMERICAN PROSE XV.
... were distinct differences in the character of the English language as spoken by the two larger branches of the race . Ill - advised British writers comment freely - of on our Americanisms , and we take a AMERICAN PROSE XV.
Strana 3
... character . So judging him , not only as a writer , but as a man , one grows more and more to feel that whatever his oddities , whatever his faults and weaknesses , he belongs among the great men of our country . In the sustained ...
... character . So judging him , not only as a writer , but as a man , one grows more and more to feel that whatever his oddities , whatever his faults and weaknesses , he belongs among the great men of our country . In the sustained ...
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Strana 263 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Strana 113 - Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?
Strana 38 - Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night ; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,
Strana 80 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Strana 263 - On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it.
Strana 40 - What maintains one Vice, would bring up two Children. "You may think perhaps, that a little Tea, or a little Punch now and then, Diet a little more costly, Clothes a little finer, and a little Entertainment now and then, can be no great Matter; but remember what Poor Richard says, Many a Little makes a Mickle; and farther, Beware of little Expenses; A small Leak will sink a great Ship; and again.
Strana 40 - If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.
Strana 192 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Strana 106 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Strana 36 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.