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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... volume Cambridge History of American Literature but also rearranges them in an order which illustrates the development of literature in the United States more simply than it was possible to do in the larger work . That larger work , the ...
... volume Cambridge History of American Literature but also rearranges them in an order which illustrates the development of literature in the United States more simply than it was possible to do in the larger work . That larger work , the ...
第 viii 頁
... volume of this length , upon the underwoods and backgrounds of literature , to which the total work gives unprecedented attention . The matter of space demanded that minor authors be slighted for the sake of those others who could not ...
... volume of this length , upon the underwoods and backgrounds of literature , to which the total work gives unprecedented attention . The matter of space demanded that minor authors be slighted for the sake of those others who could not ...
第 xi 頁
... volume of the purpose of this one . The desire to make the record as valuable as might be has not led the editors to include living writers in the Short History , even in the case of those whom the Cambridge History , in spite of its ...
... volume of the purpose of this one . The desire to make the record as valuable as might be has not led the editors to include living writers in the Short History , even in the case of those whom the Cambridge History , in spite of its ...
第 4 頁
... his " manu- script volume in his left hand , the elbow resting on the cushion or the Bible , his right hand rarely raised but to turn the leaves , and his person almost motionless " ; but there needed 4 Chapters of American Literature.
... his " manu- script volume in his left hand , the elbow resting on the cushion or the Bible , his right hand rarely raised but to turn the leaves , and his person almost motionless " ; but there needed 4 Chapters of American Literature.
第 17 頁
... volumes of his complete works is one of the most widely and thoroughly cultivated men of his age . He had not , to be sure , a university training , but he had what serves quite as well : sharp appetite and large capacity for learning ...
... volumes of his complete works is one of the most widely and thoroughly cultivated men of his age . He had not , to be sure , a university training , but he had what serves quite as well : sharp appetite and large capacity for learning ...
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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.