The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume 1William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1917 - 678 pagina's |
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Pagina iv
... whole pathway of American literary scholarship— “ My plan when I commenced my researches was an extensive one , and I gathered copious materials to carry it into effect . For several years past I have had access to libraries rich in ...
... whole pathway of American literary scholarship— “ My plan when I commenced my researches was an extensive one , and I gathered copious materials to carry it into effect . For several years past I have had access to libraries rich in ...
Pagina 7
... whole story is reread from the beginning . It was only after the more desperate dangers were over , and the prospect began to favour their escape , that Dickenson's narrative became pathetic . When the Spanish outposts were reported to ...
... whole story is reread from the beginning . It was only after the more desperate dangers were over , and the prospect began to favour their escape , that Dickenson's narrative became pathetic . When the Spanish outposts were reported to ...
Pagina 17
... whole bore the title The Generall Historie of Virginia , New - England , and the Summer Isles . Relatively an unimportant part of it is written by Smith , but he does not pretend to have written the parts he did not write . Three other ...
... whole bore the title The Generall Historie of Virginia , New - England , and the Summer Isles . Relatively an unimportant part of it is written by Smith , but he does not pretend to have written the parts he did not write . Three other ...
Pagina 33
... whole . The third party was more or less consciously democratic in principle , the expression of the newly awakened aspirations of the social underling . The poor man wanted to be ruled neither by bishops nor by gentlemen , but ...
... whole . The third party was more or less consciously democratic in principle , the expression of the newly awakened aspirations of the social underling . The poor man wanted to be ruled neither by bishops nor by gentlemen , but ...
Pagina 34
... whole instead of separating from it . But they had been preceded to America by the Plymouth congregation , a body of low - born Separatists , who had set up a church upon frankly democratic principles . In an unfortunate moment for ...
... whole instead of separating from it . But they had been preceded to America by the Plymouth congregation , a body of low - born Separatists , who had set up a church upon frankly democratic principles . In an unfortunate moment for ...
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Pagina 143 - These are the times that try men's souls : The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it Now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Pagina 128 - Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies, for the Purpose of Raising a Revenue by Act of Parliament.
Pagina 412 - Bonifacius ; an Essay upon the Good, that is to be devised and designed, by those who desire to answer the Great End of Life, and to do Good while they live.
Pagina 59 - Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Pagina 139 - ... we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored.
Pagina 61 - The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire...
Pagina 70 - All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it."— I did not push the subject any farther.
Pagina 357 - Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands. To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all.
Pagina 99 - STRAHAN, You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. — You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People. — Look upon your Hands! They are stained with the Blood of your Relations! — You and I were long Friends: — You are now my Enemy, — and I am Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Pagina 370 - A new discovery of a vast country in America, extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico. With a description of the Great Lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals...