Texas Review, Volume 7University of Texas., 1922 |
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... means destitute of national pride , he wrote primarily to do for South Carolina what Scott had done for Britain and Cooper for New York . Caruthers , Bever- ley Tucker , and John Esten Cooke were first of all Virginians . They were so ...
... means destitute of national pride , he wrote primarily to do for South Carolina what Scott had done for Britain and Cooper for New York . Caruthers , Bever- ley Tucker , and John Esten Cooke were first of all Virginians . They were so ...
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... means an experience peculiar to the South . Aside from partisan feeling , there is no essential difference in the way in which the war is reflected in Northern and in Southern poetry and fiction , whether written during the war or long ...
... means an experience peculiar to the South . Aside from partisan feeling , there is no essential difference in the way in which the war is reflected in Northern and in Southern poetry and fiction , whether written during the war or long ...
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... means of a touching conclusion , showing how the terrible suffering entailed by the war ennobled and transformed completely even people whose lives had previously been devoted to the most exquisitely selfish , luxurious , nay licen ...
... means of a touching conclusion , showing how the terrible suffering entailed by the war ennobled and transformed completely even people whose lives had previously been devoted to the most exquisitely selfish , luxurious , nay licen ...
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... means of bringing the cactus , the prairie dogs , and the Pacific Coast " nearer to Boston , ' despite the protests of a few Bostonians . 99 Besides the picturesqueness of it and the dollars in it , it is this problem of transportation ...
... means of bringing the cactus , the prairie dogs , and the Pacific Coast " nearer to Boston , ' despite the protests of a few Bostonians . 99 Besides the picturesqueness of it and the dollars in it , it is this problem of transportation ...
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... means to do with Walter Savage Landor is not doubtful . Prose , poetry , per- sonality , all are receding . In spite of his disdain of " the shouts of men " and his hints that he would always have a few devotees , Landor is read less ...
... means to do with Walter Savage Landor is not doubtful . Prose , poetry , per- sonality , all are receding . In spite of his disdain of " the shouts of men " and his hints that he would always have a few devotees , Landor is read less ...
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Page 297 - And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Page 62 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
Page 210 - In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed; the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.
Page 297 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Page 346 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 295 - For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
Page 351 - ... it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Page 345 - Take that thine is, and go thy way; I will give unto this last even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?' "So the last shall be first, and the first last; for many be called, but few chosen.
Page 298 - For the Lord •will pass through to smite the Egyptians ; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
Page 193 - Unsearchable dispose Of Highest Wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft He seems to hide His face, But unexpectedly returns, And to His faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously ; whence Gaza mourns, And all that band them to resist His uncontrollable intent; His servants He, with new acquist Of true experience, from this great event With peace and consolation hath dismissed, And calm of mind all passion spent.