American Prose Masters: Cooper, Hawthorne, Emerson, Poe, Lowell, Henry JamesC. Scribner's sons, 1909 - 400 páginas |
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American Prose Masters: Cooper, Hawthorne, Emerson, Poe, Lowell, Henry James William Crary Brownell Visualização integral - 1923 |
American Prose Masters: Cooper--Hawthorne--Emerson--Poe--Lowell--Henry James William Crary Brownell Visualização integral - 1909 |
American Prose Masters: Cooper--Hawthorne--Emerson--poe--Lowell--Henry James William Crary Brownell Visualização integral - 1923 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
admirable Alice Munro allegory American artist Balzac beauty called certainly character charm Chingachgook conceived constitution Cooper's course criticism culture Dante Deerslayer depicted distinction distinctly divine Don Quixote doubt effect element Emerson eminently England environment essay example expression extraordinary fact faculty fancy feeling fiction genius George Eliot Goethe Greenslet Hawthorne Hawthorne's Henry James human ideal illusion imagination Indian individual inspiration instinct intellect interest invented James James's lack least Leatherstocking Leatherstocking Tales less literary literature Lowell Lowell's Marble Faun masterpiece material ment merely mind moral nature never novelist novels Odoacer perhaps personages phenomena philosophy Poe's poet poetic poetry point of view precisely probably produced prose purely Puritan reader realistic reality romance romanticism Scarlet Letter Scott seems sense Shakespeare soul speaking spirit story style substance sure temperament theme things tion tive traits true truth Twice-Told Tales types Waverley Novels writer
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Página 216 - The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings; He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest, — In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best...
Página 114 - When it most closely allies itself to Beauty: the death, then, of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world...
Página 101 - The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.
Página 36 - No State, in the European sense of the word, and indeed barely a specific national name. No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army...
Página 107 - For Nature beats in perfect tune, And rounds with rhyme her every rune, Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake.
Página 36 - No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old countryhouses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools - no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class - no Epsom nor Ascot!
Página 51 - Magdalene once had there, were kneeling at the same stall, and hearing the same hymns and prayers in which her stricken heart had found consolation. Might she sleep in peace — might she sleep in peace; and we, too, when our struggles and pains are over! But the earth is the Lord's as the heaven is; we are alike His creatures here and yonder.
Página 51 - Hush, Hester, hush !" said he with tremulous solemnity. "The law we broke! — the sin here so awfully revealed ! — let these alone be in thy thoughts! I fear! I fear! It may be that, when we forgot our God, — when we violated our reverence each for the other's soul, — it was thenceforth vain to hope that we could meet hereafter, in an everlasting and pure reunion.
Página 40 - By some witchcraft or other — ' for I really cannot assign any reasonable why and wherefore — I have been carried apart from the main current of life, and find it impossible to get back again.
Página 27 - They are not the talk of a secluded man with his own mind and heart (had it been so, they could hardly have failed to be more deeply and permanently valuable), but his attempts, and very imperfectly successful ones, to open an intercourse with the world.