Texas Review, Volume 7University of Texas., 1922 |
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... written several essays on Victorian litera- ture for this Journal . L. W. PAYNE , JR . , Professor of English in the University of Texas , had edited several text - books on American literature . KARLE WILSON BAKER of Nacogdoches ...
... written several essays on Victorian litera- ture for this Journal . L. W. PAYNE , JR . , Professor of English in the University of Texas , had edited several text - books on American literature . KARLE WILSON BAKER of Nacogdoches ...
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... written books of genuine literary merit . Until the Civil War gave the Southern states their feeling of political and social solidarity , the Southerner thought of him- self as an American rather than as a native of the South . Always ...
... written books of genuine literary merit . Until the Civil War gave the Southern states their feeling of political and social solidarity , the Southerner thought of him- self as an American rather than as a native of the South . Always ...
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... written during the war or long after . The earlier historians found the materials for a history of Southern literature so scanty that it became necessary to in- clude every Southerner who had written a book of any kind or even ...
... written during the war or long after . The earlier historians found the materials for a history of Southern literature so scanty that it became necessary to in- clude every Southerner who had written a book of any kind or even ...
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... written . upon " Southern literature , " Professor Trent and Professor Mims are almost the only writers who have escaped the pro- vincial bias . The reception of Trent's admirable life of Simms , published in 1892 , proved that at that ...
... written . upon " Southern literature , " Professor Trent and Professor Mims are almost the only writers who have escaped the pro- vincial bias . The reception of Trent's admirable life of Simms , published in 1892 , proved that at that ...
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... to por- tray the life of their section . Such a study would bring to- gether all that is significant which has been written about the South . Such books as Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin ON " SOUTHERN LITERATURE ” 15.
... to por- tray the life of their section . Such a study would bring to- gether all that is significant which has been written about the South . Such books as Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin ON " SOUTHERN LITERATURE ” 15.
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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.