The Cambridge History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. IIIWilliam Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921 |
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The Cambridge History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. III Visualização integral - 1921 |
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Página 687 - Reports upon the survey of the boundary between the territory of the United States and the possessions of Great Britain from the Lake of the Woods to the Summit of the Rocky Mountains.
Página 426 - I had been of some service, thought fit to reward me by employing me in printing the money ; a very profitable job and a great help to me. This was another advantage gained by my being able to write.
Página 524 - There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material ; he is spiritual.
Página 678 - Fresh Gleanings; Or, a New Sheaf from the Old Fields of Continental Europe.
Página 569 - Ten thousand native idiomatic words are growing, or are to-day already grown, out of which vast numbers could be used by American writers, with meaning and effect— words that would be welcomed by the nation, being of the national blood— words that would give that taste of identity and locality which is so dear in literature.
Página 620 - After the rushing waters had subsided the Lenape of the turtle were close together, in hollow houses, living together there. It freezes where they abode, it snows where they abode, it storms where they abode, it is cold where they abode.
Página 499 - They will, doubtless, forget for the moment the difference in the hues of truth we look at through our human prisms, and join in singing (inwardly) this hymn to the Source of the light we all need to lead us, and the warmth which alone can make us all brothers.
Página 525 - No person can take the individual place of the Virgin Mary. No person can compass or fulfil the individual mission of Jesus of Nazareth. No person can take the place of the author of Science and Health, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science. Each individual must fill his own niche in time and eternity.
Página 597 - As a youth, he consecrated his first ambitions to her; through manhood, he devoted his pen to her; old, suffering, bereft by misfortune of his ancestral heritage, and the fruit of his prime's vigour and industry, he yet stood ever her courageous knight, to defend her against the aspersions of strangers, the slanders of traitors.
Página 724 - Jottings of a Year's Sojourn in the South or First Impressions of the Country and Its People with a Glimpse at School-Teaching in That Southern Land and Reminiscences of Distinguished Men (Battle Creek, 1859), 261.