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... American Literature - Conditions in the Seventeenth Century - Character of the First American Writers - Causes of Differences Between Southern and New England Literatures . II . Surprising Quantity of Early Southern Literature ...
... American Literature - Conditions in the Seventeenth Century - Character of the First American Writers - Causes of Differences Between Southern and New England Literatures . II . Surprising Quantity of Early Southern Literature ...
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... America - His Knowledge of American Events - His Histories and Biogra- phies - An Indian Treaty - Calamitous Nature of Revolutionary War . XI . John Marshall - His Life of Washington - Importance of Judicial Sys- tem . XII . Mason Weems ...
... America - His Knowledge of American Events - His Histories and Biogra- phies - An Indian Treaty - Calamitous Nature of Revolutionary War . XI . John Marshall - His Life of Washington - Importance of Judicial Sys- tem . XII . Mason Weems ...
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... American Letters it has sometimes been doubted whether that district commonly known as " the South " has pro- duced a literature so different in its fundamental conception and growth as to deserve separate atten- tion . They alone doubt ...
... American Letters it has sometimes been doubted whether that district commonly known as " the South " has pro- duced a literature so different in its fundamental conception and growth as to deserve separate atten- tion . They alone doubt ...
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... American Letters are ignorant of that body of litera- ture much of it worthy indeed of permanency— which has arisen in the South . It is the purpose of this volume to make a study of the various literary movements and their results and ...
... American Letters are ignorant of that body of litera- ture much of it worthy indeed of permanency— which has arisen in the South . It is the purpose of this volume to make a study of the various literary movements and their results and ...
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... American Literature had a conscious birth . Its written form was not the result of centuries of slow evolution : it sprang into existence . Its origin does not lie in the crude utterances of a virile CHAPTER I THE BEGINNINGS (1607-1676)
... American Literature had a conscious birth . Its written form was not the result of centuries of slow evolution : it sprang into existence . Its origin does not lie in the crude utterances of a virile CHAPTER I THE BEGINNINGS (1607-1676)
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Page 91 - The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Page 236 - Hear the loud alarum bells, Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 236 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows...
Page 348 - Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain, Run the rapid and leap the fall, Split at the rock and together again, Accept my bed, or narrow or wide, And flee from folly on every side With a lover's pain to attain the plain Far from the hills of Habersham, Far from the valleys of Hall. All down the hills of Habersham, All through the valleys of Hall, The rushes cried Abide, abide...
Page 147 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 43 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Page 207 - Of her bright face one glance will trace A picture on the brain, And of her voice in echoing hearts A sound must long remain; But memory, such as mine of her, So very much endears, When death is nigh my latest sigh Will not be life's, but hers.
Page 195 - Oh ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming...
Page 352 - But oh, not the hills of Habersham, And oh, not the valleys of Hall Avail : I am fain for to water the plain. Downward the voices of Duty call — Downward, to toil and be mixed with the main, The dry fields burn, and the mills are to turn, And a myriad flowers mortally yearn, And the lordly main from beyond the plain Calls o'er the hills of Habersham, Calls through the valleys of Hall.
Page 362 - Let me picture to you the footsore Confederate soldier, as, buttoning up in his faded gray jacket the parole which was to bear testimony to his children of his fidelity and faith, he turned his face southward from Appomattox in April 1865. Think of him as ragged, half starved, heavy-hearted, enfeebled by want and wounds...