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... American men of letters Cooper , Whittier , and Bryant - not only through their writings but by means of lightly drawn sketches of their lives . In addition to these sketches of authors , the book con- tains , on pages 396 to 402 ...
... American men of letters Cooper , Whittier , and Bryant - not only through their writings but by means of lightly drawn sketches of their lives . In addition to these sketches of authors , the book con- tains , on pages 396 to 402 ...
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... they have something which they desire to tell to some one else . This desire to give the thought force- fully helps materially in curing many faults . AMERICA The Beautiful CONTENTS • Katharine Lee Bates WHAT IS 8 THE USE OF THE VOICE.
... they have something which they desire to tell to some one else . This desire to give the thought force- fully helps materially in curing many faults . AMERICA The Beautiful CONTENTS • Katharine Lee Bates WHAT IS 8 THE USE OF THE VOICE.
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Book One Franklin Benjamin Dyer, Mary J. Brady. AMERICA The Beautiful CONTENTS • Katharine Lee Bates WHAT IS IT TO BE AN AMERICAN ? STAND BY YOUR COUNTRY THE MORNING OF THE REVOLUTION CONCORD HYMN WARREN'S ADDRESS AT BUNKER HILL A SPEECH ...
Book One Franklin Benjamin Dyer, Mary J. Brady. AMERICA The Beautiful CONTENTS • Katharine Lee Bates WHAT IS IT TO BE AN AMERICAN ? STAND BY YOUR COUNTRY THE MORNING OF THE REVOLUTION CONCORD HYMN WARREN'S ADDRESS AT BUNKER HILL A SPEECH ...
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... 363 THE STAR - SPANGLED BANNER SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES WORD LIST PRONUNCIATION OF PROPER NAMES Francis Scott Key 364 367 • 396 403 413 READINGS IN LITERATURE AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL BY KATHARINE LEE BATES CONTENTS 11.
... 363 THE STAR - SPANGLED BANNER SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES WORD LIST PRONUNCIATION OF PROPER NAMES Francis Scott Key 364 367 • 396 403 413 READINGS IN LITERATURE AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL BY KATHARINE LEE BATES CONTENTS 11.
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... America ! America ! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea ! O beautiful for pilgrim feet , Whose stern , impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness ! America !
... America ! America ! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea ! O beautiful for pilgrim feet , Whose stern , impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness ! America !
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Abraham Davenport Alexander Aliena American Barbox Brothers beautiful blow Bryant called Celia Coppy cried duke England Ernest expression eyes father fire flag forest Forest of Arden Ganymede Gathergold Gavin GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS Gideon give hand hath head hear heard heart hills horse Israel JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER KATHARINE LEE BATES king Lamps land liberty light live look Lord manner Midian Miss Allardyce morning mother mountain Mugby Junction never night o'er Orlando passed peace Pilot poem poet river Rosalind Salle seemed Sella ship shouted sing smile song spider spirit star-spangled banner Stone Face stood story sweet tell thee things thou thought took turned unto valley voice Wee Willie Winkie Whittier WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT wind wonder woods words young youth
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Page 48 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own government...
Page 43 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Page 364 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 357 - Yet Love will dream, and Faith will trust, (Since He who knows our need is just,) That somehow, somewhere, meet we must.
Page 26 - Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Page 142 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth, "For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more...
Page 42 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure We are met on a great battle-field of that war We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live...
Page 152 - Therefore, thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it. By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord. For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
Page 146 - This was the truest warrior That ever buckled sword, This the most gifted poet That ever breathed a word; And never earth's philosopher Traced with his golden pen, On the deathless page, truths half so sage As he wrote down for men.
Page 252 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.