Life of John Greenleaf WhittierW. Scott, Limited, 1893 - 202 pagina's |
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Pagina 10
... true man ; his the rare power of creating homely beauty ; Stedman on the early influences of his life ; Nature learned from herself ; brief review of his life and estimate of his verse ; conclusion 183 INDEX . . 199 LIFE OF WHITTIER ...
... true man ; his the rare power of creating homely beauty ; Stedman on the early influences of his life ; Nature learned from herself ; brief review of his life and estimate of his verse ; conclusion 183 INDEX . . 199 LIFE OF WHITTIER ...
Pagina 12
... true gauge of popular feeling in songs that are dear to the common people and true to their unsophisticated life and motive . " To continue with Stedman : " Here we confront the statement that the six Eastern States were not and are not ...
... true gauge of popular feeling in songs that are dear to the common people and true to their unsophisticated life and motive . " To continue with Stedman : " Here we confront the statement that the six Eastern States were not and are not ...
Pagina 60
... true and heroic man , is expressed more than forty years later in his lines on Sumner , prefaced by the following words from Milton's " Defence of the People of England " : " I am not one who has disgraced beauty of sentiment by ...
... true and heroic man , is expressed more than forty years later in his lines on Sumner , prefaced by the following words from Milton's " Defence of the People of England " : " I am not one who has disgraced beauty of sentiment by ...
Pagina 70
... true courage . " Yet I am not conscious of having lost in any degree my early admiration of heroic achievement . The feeling remains , but it has found new and better objects . I have learned to appreciate what Milton calls the martyr's ...
... true courage . " Yet I am not conscious of having lost in any degree my early admiration of heroic achievement . The feeling remains , but it has found new and better objects . I have learned to appreciate what Milton calls the martyr's ...
Pagina 76
... true . From my youth up , whenever my health permitted , I have been a con- stant attendant of our meetings for religious worship . This is true , however , that , after our 76 LIFE OF.
... true . From my youth up , whenever my health permitted , I have been a con- stant attendant of our meetings for religious worship . This is true , however , that , after our 76 LIFE OF.
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24 Warwick Lane Abolition Abolitionist American Amesbury anti-slavery appeared ballad beauty Boston Burns CHARLOTTE BRONTË divine DORA GREENWELL early Edited by John Edited by William EMERSON England English Ernest Rhys ESSAYS eyes farm father feel fire flowers Garrison genius grey Havelock Ellis Haverhill heard heart hills honour idylls INTRO Introduction J. G. Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier Joseph Skipsey Lake Letters literary lived London Longfellow look Lowell Massachusetts meeting-house Merrimac Milton Moll Pitcher National Nature never notes paper Philadelphia poet poet's poetic poetry portrait praise preacher prose Puritan Quaker religious Review RODEN NOEL sister slave slavery Society of Friends song SONNETS soul stanzas Stedman story T. W. Rolleston thee Thou thought tion town trees truth uttered verse Voices of Freedom volume Walter Lewin WALTER SCOTT Whittier's poems William Sharp wind words writes written wrote young
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Pagina 34 - In moons and tides and weather wise, He read the clouds as prophecies, And foul or fair could well divine, By many an occult hint and sign, Holding the...
Pagina 173 - Trembling, I listened: the summer sun Had the chill of snow; For I knew she was telling the bees of one Gone on the journey we all must go! Then I said to myself, 'My Mary weeps For the dead to-day: Haply her blind old grandsire sleeps The fret and the pain of his age away.
Pagina 45 - BLESSINGS on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan ! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes ; With thy red lip, redder still Kissed by strawberries on the hill ; With the sunshine on thy face, Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace ; From my heart I give thee joy, — I was once a barefoot boy ! Prince thou art, — the grown-up man Only is republican.
Pagina 62 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Pagina 144 - It touched the tangled golden curls, And brown eyes full of grieving, Of one who still her steps delayed When all the school were leaving.
Pagina 168 - I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew.
Pagina 107 - Of all we loved and honored, naught Save power remains, — A fallen angel's pride of thought, Still strong in chains. All else is gone : from those great eyes The soul has fled : When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead!
Pagina 50 - And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD ; but the LORD was not in the wind : and after the wind an earthquake ; but the LORD was not in the earthquake : and after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.