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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第 34 頁
... novel combinations . His native inquisitiveness had been stimulated by a young civilization's manifold necessities , mothering mani- fold inventions , and had been supplemented by a certain moral and idealizing passion for improvement ...
... novel combinations . His native inquisitiveness had been stimulated by a young civilization's manifold necessities , mothering mani- fold inventions , and had been supplemented by a certain moral and idealizing passion for improvement ...
第 72 頁
... novel he was reading to her . He attempted it and wrote Precaution ( 1820 ) , which , as might have been expected from a man who , in spite of a juvenile romance and a few doggerel verses , was little trained in author- ship , is a ...
... novel he was reading to her . He attempted it and wrote Precaution ( 1820 ) , which , as might have been expected from a man who , in spite of a juvenile romance and a few doggerel verses , was little trained in author- ship , is a ...
第 73 頁
... novel might have gone with impossible partiality for the Americans had not Cooper's wife belonged to a family which had been loyal during the struggle for inde- pendence . As it was , he made his loyalists not necessarily knaves and ...
... novel might have gone with impossible partiality for the Americans had not Cooper's wife belonged to a family which had been loyal during the struggle for inde- pendence . As it was , he made his loyalists not necessarily knaves and ...
第 74 頁
... novel reached a third edition the following March ; it was approved on the stage ; European readers accepted it with enthusiasm . Pleased , though perhaps surprised , at this recep- tion of his work , Cooper threw himself into the new ...
... novel reached a third edition the following March ; it was approved on the stage ; European readers accepted it with enthusiasm . Pleased , though perhaps surprised , at this recep- tion of his work , Cooper threw himself into the new ...
第 75 頁
... novel is its hero , John Paul Jones , secret , Byronic , always brooding upon a dark past and a darker fate ... novels had done . During the next two years Cooper reached probably the highest point of his career in The Last of the ...
... novel is its hero , John Paul Jones , secret , Byronic , always brooding upon a dark past and a darker fate ... novels had done . During the next two years Cooper reached probably the highest point of his career in The Last of the ...
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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.