Bryant, and His Friends: Some Reminiscences of the Knickerbocker WritersFords, Howard & Hulbert, 1886 - 443 páginas |
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Bryant, and His Friends: Some Reminiscences of the Knickerbocker Writers James Grant Wilson Visualização integral - 1886 |
Bryant, and His Friends: Some Reminiscences of the Knickerbocker Writers James Grant Wilson Visualização integral - 1886 |
Bryant, and His Friends: Some Reminiscences of the Knickerbocker Writers James Grant Wilson Visualização integral - 1886 |
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admirable Allston alluded American poets appeared Bayard Taylor beautiful born Boston brother Bryant called career Charles charming College Cooper copy criticism Croakers Dana Dana's daughter dear death delight Drake Dutchess County early edition editor England English entitled fame father Fitz-Greene Halleck genius grave Guilford heart honour Idlewild Jacob Barker John Joseph Rodman Drake Kennett Square Knickerbocker Langstaff letter lines literary literature living Longfellow memory native never noble occasion Park passed Paulding Paulding's pleasant poem poet poet's poetical writings poetry Poughkeepsie present prose published received remarked remember residence Richard Henry Dana Roslyn says song Street sweet Thanatopsis tion tree venerable Verplanck verse volume Washington Allston Washington Irving William Cullen William Cullen Bryant Willis words written wrote Yale College York young
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Página 72 - Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Página 366 - Will bring enough of sorrow." They lay along the battery's side, Below the smoking cannon: Brave hearts, from Severn and from Clyde, And from the banks of Shannon. They sang of love, and not of fame; Forgot was Britain's glory: Each heart recalled a different name, But all sang "Annie Laurie.
Página 328 - And called her good as fair, For all God ever gave to her She kept with chary care. She kept with care her beauties rare From lovers warm and true, For her heart was cold to all but gold, And the rich came not to woo — But honored well are charms to sell If priests the selling do.
Página 58 - Even in modern times, no living poet ever arrived at the fulness of his fame; the jury which sits in judgment upon a poet, belonging as he does to all time, must be composed of his peers: it must be impanelled by Time from the selectest of the wise of many generations.
Página 42 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares — The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Página 40 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course, nor yet in the cold ground Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Página 40 - The twilight of the trees and rocks Is in the light shade of thy locks; Thy step is as the wind, that weaves Its playful way among the leaves. Thy eyes are springs, in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen; Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook. The forest depths, by foot...
Página 58 - No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes, and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade Shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm To thy sick heart.
Página 82 - Pale is the February sky, And brief the midday's sunny hours; The wind-swept forest seems to sigh For the sweet time of leaves and flowers. Yet has no month a prouder day, Not even when the summer broods O'er meadows In their fresh array, Or autumn tints the glowing woods. For this chill season now again Brings, in its annual round, the morn When, greatest of the sons of men, Our glorious Washington was born.
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Millennial Desire and the Apocalyptic Vision of Washington Allston David Bjelajac Visualização de excertos - 1988 |
On the Development of American Literature from 1815 to 1833: With Especial ... William B. Cairns Visualização integral - 1898 |