A Short History of American Literature Based Upon the Cambridge History of American LiteratureWilliam Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren G.P. Putnam's sons, 1923 - 428 頁 |
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... letters as they enlarge and enrich this history in the chapter devoted to them . Thereafter the Short History ventures to depart , advisedly , from the course pursued by most of the manuals on American literature . To Lincoln , orator ...
... letters as they enlarge and enrich this history in the chapter devoted to them . Thereafter the Short History ventures to depart , advisedly , from the course pursued by most of the manuals on American literature . To Lincoln , orator ...
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... letters , and " in a society where there was no relish and no encouragement for literature . " This statement of Franklin's educational opportunities is manifestly inadequate ; but it so pleasantly flatters our long - standing pride in ...
... letters , and " in a society where there was no relish and no encouragement for literature . " This statement of Franklin's educational opportunities is manifestly inadequate ; but it so pleasantly flatters our long - standing pride in ...
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... letters , set up in Boston as a printer , and proceeded to the publication of The Boston Gazette , 1719 , and The New England Courant , 1721. Benjamin , aged twelve , became his apprentice . It can hardly be too much emphasized that ...
... letters , set up in Boston as a printer , and proceeded to the publication of The Boston Gazette , 1719 , and The New England Courant , 1721. Benjamin , aged twelve , became his apprentice . It can hardly be too much emphasized that ...
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... letters of credit and recom- mendation from his patron would enable him to procure a printing outfit . Left in the lurch by the governor , he served for something over a year in two great London printing - houses , kept free - thinking ...
... letters of credit and recom- mendation from his patron would enable him to procure a printing outfit . Left in the lurch by the governor , he served for something over a year in two great London printing - houses , kept free - thinking ...
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... letters of " Anthony Afterwit " and " Alice Addertongue , " A Meditation on a Quart Mug , and A Witch Trial at Mount Holly . In 1732 he began to issue the almanacs containing the wit and wisdom of " Poor Richard , " a homely popular ...
... letters of " Anthony Afterwit " and " Alice Addertongue , " A Meditation on a Quart Mug , and A Witch Trial at Mount Holly . In 1732 he began to issue the almanacs containing the wit and wisdom of " Poor Richard , " a homely popular ...
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第 94 頁 - A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents ; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect.
第 314 頁 - In the whole composition there should be no word written, of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one preestablished design.
第 110 頁 - 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. I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp, Forgot my morning wishes, hastily Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day Turned and departed silent. I, too late, Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.
第 123 頁 - Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round ; In vain produced, all rays return ; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.
第 109 頁 - Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply: " 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
第 5 頁 - 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...
第 14 頁 - All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it."— I did not push the subject any farther.
第 103 頁 - Historical Christianity has fallen into the error that corrupts all attempts to communicate religion. As it appears to us, and as it has appeared for ages, it is not the doctrine of the soul, but an exaggeration of the personal, the positive, the ritual. It has dwelt, it dwells, with noxious exaggeration about the person of Jesus.
第 3 頁 - Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
第 135 頁 - It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdraw and stand aloof from it effectually.