The Rhode-Island Book: Selections in Prose and Verse from the Writings of Rhode-Island CitizensH. Fuller, 1841 - 364 páginas |
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... Greece , Rome , nor the nations of modern Europe had grasped the sublime idea of intellectual liberty , and the glory of founding the first State on this principle remained for an obscure exile on the shores of Narraganset Bay . An ...
... Greece , Rome , nor the nations of modern Europe had grasped the sublime idea of intellectual liberty , and the glory of founding the first State on this principle remained for an obscure exile on the shores of Narraganset Bay . An ...
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... Greece ! But we need not turn to classic story to find all that is great in human action ; we find it in our own times and in the history of our own country . Who is there of us that even in the nursery has not felt his spirit stir ...
... Greece ! But we need not turn to classic story to find all that is great in human action ; we find it in our own times and in the history of our own country . Who is there of us that even in the nursery has not felt his spirit stir ...
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... Greece and not for beauty ! He who seeks To know the hobby of the day , and spec- Ulate on what is coming , need but know The latest Paris mode and what's " the go ! " And thus you see , that Fashion is symbolical . It is an art , a ...
... Greece and not for beauty ! He who seeks To know the hobby of the day , and spec- Ulate on what is coming , need but know The latest Paris mode and what's " the go ! " And thus you see , that Fashion is symbolical . It is an art , a ...
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... Greece and Rome , and especially in Greece . Its effects 110 PLAN FOR A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY .
... Greece and Rome , and especially in Greece . Its effects 110 PLAN FOR A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY .
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... Greece . Its effects here , I am persuaded , would be many and glorious . Of these I shall now indicate only one ; but that one whose importance all must admit . In its pro- gress , and ultimately , it would give to our country , I have ...
... Greece . Its effects here , I am persuaded , would be many and glorious . Of these I shall now indicate only one ; but that one whose importance all must admit . In its pro- gress , and ultimately , it would give to our country , I have ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ALBERT G ASHER ROBBINS battle BATTLE OF BENNINGTON beauty behold beneath Bishop Berkeley bosom breath breeze cataract character Charlie Machree charm cloud dark death deep delight divine earth eloquence Esek Hopkins evanescent fall fame fear feeling flowers forever freedom friends Gaspee gaze genius glory glowing Greece hand happiness hath heart heaven hills honor hues human imagination labor land laws liberty light living lofty look loveliness ment mighty mind moral mountain nation nature ne'er never night noble o'er ocean passed passions perfect philosophers pleasure poet poetry present principles Rhode-Island rocks ROGER WILLIAMS round scene shine shore smile soul spirit stand stood sublime sweet taste thee Theodorus Bailey thine things thou thought tion trembling TRISTAM BURGES true truth voice waters waves West Canada Creek WILLIAM HAGUE wings words ye'r
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Página 32 - In happy climes, where from the genial sun • And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true...
Página 263 - It reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which Warmed the spring-time of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings, spreads our sympathies over all classes of society, knits us by new ties with universal being, and, through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold...
Página 232 - There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Página 6 - It pleased the Lord to call me for some time, and with some persons, to practise the Hebrew, the Greek, Latin, French and Dutch. The Secretary of the Council, (Mr. Milton) for my Dutch I read him, read me many more languages.
Página 220 - Long labour, why, forgetful of his toils And due repose, he loiters to behold The sunshine gleaming as through amber clouds O'er all the western sky? Full soon, I ween, His rude expression and untutor'd airs Beyond the power of language will unfold The form of beauty smiling at his heart, How lovely!
Página 33 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 18 - My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
Página 262 - ... cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains of pure feeling, touches of tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with what is good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an immoral work, and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good.
Página 66 - O'ER a low couch the setting sun had thrown its latest ray, Where in his last strong agony a dying warrior lay, The stern old Baron Rudiger, whose frame had ne'er been bent By wasting pain, till time and toil its iron strength had spent* " They come around me here, and say my days of life are o'er, That I shall mount my noble steed and lead my band no more ; They come, and to my beard they dare to tell me now, that I, Their own liege lord and master born, — that I, ha ! ha ! must die.
Página 249 - Man makes his fate according to his mind. The weak, low spirit, Fortune makes her slave: But she's a drudge, when hectored by the brave.
Referencias a este libro
In Their Own Terms: American Literary Historiography in the United States ... Francesco Pontuale Vista de fragmentos - 2007 |