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... whole country when compared with the nations of the old world . Our national lite- rature is in its infancy . We have no vast libraries where profound investigations can be made . We have no such race of men as scholars by profession ...
... whole country when compared with the nations of the old world . Our national lite- rature is in its infancy . We have no vast libraries where profound investigations can be made . We have no such race of men as scholars by profession ...
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... whole domains of civilization , penetrated and bound together by canals and rail roads , and above all enlightened by the emanations of ten thousand printing presses . I cannot believe , if I would , with the an- cients , that the world ...
... whole domains of civilization , penetrated and bound together by canals and rail roads , and above all enlightened by the emanations of ten thousand printing presses . I cannot believe , if I would , with the an- cients , that the world ...
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... and a corrupt religion set bounds to all improvement . What an encounter is that , when the English man - of - war points its thunders against a whole fleet of the clumsy and ill 22 INTRODUCTORY . American Literature 17 to.
... and a corrupt religion set bounds to all improvement . What an encounter is that , when the English man - of - war points its thunders against a whole fleet of the clumsy and ill 22 INTRODUCTORY . American Literature 17 to.
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And Other Subjects George Washington Burnap. thunders against a whole fleet of the clumsy and ill contrived shipping of the Celestial Empire ! What an encounter would that be , were an English army with her mortars and battering ...
And Other Subjects George Washington Burnap. thunders against a whole fleet of the clumsy and ill contrived shipping of the Celestial Empire ! What an encounter would that be , were an English army with her mortars and battering ...
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... whole range of the Roman empire . And I will add , that nothing he ever wrote was more worthy to be transmitted to the latest posterity than some of the productions of our most distinguished orator , advocate , jurist , and statesman ...
... whole range of the Roman empire . And I will add , that nothing he ever wrote was more worthy to be transmitted to the latest posterity than some of the productions of our most distinguished orator , advocate , jurist , and statesman ...
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Page 197 - Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys : renown, and grace, is dead ; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
Page 188 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 181 - And there lay the rider, distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail...
Page 180 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Page 46 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Page 180 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 183 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
Page 173 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 184 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Page 27 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.