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... become conscious of self and of an inner life that is not yet adjusted to its social surroundings . They need to see the poetry of the commonplace rather than commonplace poetry ; to see the significance of everyday virtues and common ...
... become conscious of self and of an inner life that is not yet adjusted to its social surroundings . They need to see the poetry of the commonplace rather than commonplace poetry ; to see the significance of everyday virtues and common ...
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... become intimately acquainted with some of our great 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 ...
... become intimately acquainted with some of our great 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 ...
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... become " voice con- scious . " They must observe the way cultivated people use the voice , and must learn to listen ... becomes automatic , or second nature . Until they uncon- sciously use the voice correctly , their speech will not be ...
... become " voice con- scious . " They must observe the way cultivated people use the voice , and must learn to listen ... becomes automatic , or second nature . Until they uncon- sciously use the voice correctly , their speech will not be ...
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... becomes neces- sary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another , and to assume , among the powers of the earth , the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God ...
... becomes neces- sary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another , and to assume , among the powers of the earth , the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God ...
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... becoming the draughtsman of papers to be reviewed by a public body . I took my lesson from an incident which I will relate to you . When I was a journeyman printer , one of my companions , an apprentice hatter , having served out his ...
... becoming the draughtsman of papers to be reviewed by a public body . I took my lesson from an incident which I will relate to you . When I was a journeyman printer , one of my companions , an apprentice hatter , having served out his ...
Common terms and phrases
Abraham Davenport Alexander Aliena American Barbox Brothers beautiful blow Bryant called Celia Cooper Coppy cottage cried Ernest eyes father fire flag forest Forest of Arden Ganymede Gathergold Gavin Gideon glow Gordius Griffith hand hath head hear heard heart hills horse Israel JAMES FENIMORE COOPER JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER king Lamps land liberty light lived look Lord manner Midian Midianites Miss Allardyce morning mother mountain Mugby Junction never night o'er Orlando passed Pilot poem poet river Rosalind Salle seemed Sella Sennacherib ship shouted side singing smile song spider star-spangled banner Stone Face stood story sweet tell thee things thou thought took trapper turned unto voice Wee Willie Winkie Whittier WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT wind wonder woods words young youth
Popular passages
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.