...uses broken into (by a tumult of Patri- ots, among whom red-capped Varlet, American Fournier loom forth, in the darkness of the rain and riot); had th... ...ther. Here, accordingly, if anywhere, the ‘hundred tongues,’ which the old Poets often clamour for, were of supreme service! In defect of any such org...

...Secretary of the Embassy, from his occasional excursions into the field of American humour, had formed a special notion of that class of mechanic as t... ...or by vanity, the mother of all noble and vile illusions, the companion of poets, reformers, charlatans, prophets, and incendiaries. Lost for a whole ...

...said Ann Veronica. “It has been proved,” said Miss Miniver, and added, “by American professors.” “But how did they prove it?” “By science,” said Miss ... ...pewter plaque; Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers; Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco; Etc., etc. Through all this ...

...ryman, landowner, agriculturist, and breeder of cattle. He would become an American or Australian Phase the Third — The Rally 103 Abraham, commanding... ...try — actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She lives what paper poets only write. ...And she is an unimpeachable Christian, I am sure; perh... ...om the back of a mule which was bearing him from the interior of the South American Continent towards the coast. His experiences of this strange land ...

...aly, with those who have entered the career of prelacy. He had studied the poets, and wrote tolerable Latin and Italian verses; in a word, his taste w... ... with mine. T o prove this by experience, I taught music gratis to a young American lady, Mademoiselle des Roulins, with whom M. Roguin had brought me... ...stances forced me to beg my bread:—in learning by memory passages from the poets which I had learned and forgotten a hundred times. Every morning at t... ...ion to ward off misery was to exercise my happy memory by learning all the poets by rote. I had another expedient, not less solid, in the game of ches... ...ly connected with him to pass his name over in silence. M. du Perou was an American, son to a commandant of Surinam, whose successor, M. le Chambrier,...

...n de Rubempre begins in the Lost Illu- sions trilogy which consists of Two Poets, A Distinguished Pro- vincial at Paris, and Eve and David. Dedication... ...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ... ...n than for the imagery of a poet in the brain of a mathematician. How many poets occur in an age, who are either good prose writers, or as witty in th...

... Caesar always hiding away his nominatives out of spite. Valetta, like the American child, evidently regarded the Great Julius in no other light than ... ...voice opprest!’ ‘Oh, Harry, can’t we stay and see Henry VII.’s Chapel, and Poets’ Corner, and Edward I.’s monument?’ pleaded the sis- ter. ‘I am afrai...

...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ...s dull, and Livy apparently easy and really very hard. So, again, with the poets; and most of all I found no interest (fancy!) in Plato and Aristotle.... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave... ...tion, a sugar plantation has not been found a very advanced school for the American or West Indian negro, and as a matter of fact, the islander who ha...

...at he was destined to add another name to the imperishable list of English poets. From Winchester he went to Oxford, and was entered as a commoner at ... ...find a sufficiency of proper pabulum. Just then there was no talk of a new American president. No won- derful tragedies had occurred on railway trains...

...n of the conduct of that weak King governed by that first minister to whom poets and historians have given the glory they have stripped from his maste... ...whose permanent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek h...

...ne I Sing................22 Shut Not Your Doors...........................22 Poets to Come.....................................22 To You................. ...e with distrustful aspect, Terrible in beauty, age, and power, The genius of poets of old lands, As to me directing like flame its eyes, With finger p... ...elt by the intellect, But you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page. POETS TO C OME Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not t... .... With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing its part and passi... ...or backward towards me to listen, With eyes retrospective towards me. 3 Americanos! conquerors! marches humanitarian! Foremost! century marches! ... ...ntique? Why these are the children of the antique to justify it. 5 Dead poets, philosophs, priests, Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long... ...with you is heroism upon land and sea, And I will report all heroism from an American point of view. I will sing the song of companionship, I will sho... ...raph stretching across the continent, See, through Atlantica’s depths pulses American Europe reaching, pulses of Europe duly return’d, See, the strong... ...treet or on the ship’s deck give a kiss in return, We observe that salute of American comrades land and sea, We are those two natural and nonchalant p...

.......21 What Place Is Besieged?......................22 Still Though the One I Sing................22 Shut Not Your Doors...........................22 Poets to Come.....................................22 To You................................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Startin...

...The Frost Spirit by John Greenleaf Whittier. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 28, 2012. John Greenleaf Whittier was an influential American Quaker poet. He is considered one of the Fireside Poets and was influenced by Roberet Burns. (Summary by David Lawrence)...

...ng you 20 recordings of The Open Window by Edward Rowland Sill. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 27th, 2011. Edward Rowland Sill, American poet and educator, was born in Windsor, Connecticut. He was a modest and charming man, a graceful essayist, a sure critic. His contribution to American poetry is small but of fine quality. His best poems, such as The...

...g you 11 recordings of Departerd Days by Oliver Wendell Holmes. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 8, 2011. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was an American physician, professor, lecturer, and author. Regarded by his peers as one of the best writers of the 19th century, he is considered a member of the Fireside Poets. His most famous prose works are the Breakfast-Table s...

... 1 Broadening Horizons: History of the U.S. Peace Corps 3 Executive Director’s Message Regular Columns 4 Metaphysical Hot Air Balloons: Baroque Poets 5 Literature for Adolescents 6 Arts & Crafts Movement 7 October: Start of the Modern Age 8 Pumpkins Sweet & Savory: The Quintessential Fall Flavor 9 Ballads: Parallels in Old and Contemporary Narratives 10 Swimmin...

...evenson Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. ON THE DEATH OF FLEEMING JENKIN, his family and friends d... ...ugh some half-built streets of two-storied houses’; he had Carlyle and the poets, engineering and math- ematics, to study by himself in such spare tim... ...s.’ A TELEGRAM OF JULY 20: ‘I have received your four welcome letters. The Americans are charming people.’ VI. AND HERE TO MAKE AN END are a few rando... ...phonograph which to our great joy talked, and talked, too, with the purest American accent. It was so good that a second instrument was got ready fort...

...Excerpt: Preface To The American Edition. On the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two consider...

... air both of luxury and of maturity. In this region, in the month of June, American travelers are extremely numerous; it may be said, indeed, that Vev... ...eed, that Vevey assumes at this period some of the character- istics of an American watering place. There are sights and sounds which evoke a vision, ... ... analogies or the dif- ferences that were uppermost in the mind of a young American, who, two or three years ago, sat in the garden of the “Trois Cour... ...oned. It was a beautiful summer morning, and in whatever fashion the young American looked at things, they must have seemed to him charming. He had co... ... lady who lived there—a foreign lady—a person older than himself. Very few Americans— indeed, I think none—had ever seen this lady, about whom there w... ...ed that if nocturnal meditations in the Colos- seum are recommended by the poets, they are deprecated by the doctors. The historic atmosphere was ther...

...ny chest of drawers and chairs, the table painted red, the sofa covered with American leather of a reddish colour with little green flowers on it, and... ...prison house, and finally die, following the example of some wretched German poets and novelists. Is that it, madam? But, to begin with, allow me to t...

...ty green, smoke-begrimed, dusty walls of his little room, with the mahogany chest of drawers and chairs, the table painted red, the sofa covered with American leather of a reddish color with little green flowers on it, and the clothes taken off in haste overnight and flung in a crumpled heap on the sofa, looked at him familiarly....

...that use of my figure. I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets, Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, b... ...oductions. Linnaeus said long ago, “Nescio quae facies laeta, glabra plantis Americanis” (I know not what there is of joyous and smooth in the aspect ... ... Americanis” (I know not what there is of joyous and smooth in the aspect of American plants); and I think that in this country there are no, or at mo... ...length, perchance, the im material heaven will appear as much higher to the American mind, and the intimations that star it as much brighter. For I b... .... Else to what end does the world go on, and why was America discovered? T o Americans I hardly need to say— “Westward the star of empire takes its wa... ...st rots below—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and... ...philosopher comes down on his marrow bones. It is said to be the task of the American “to work the virgin soil,” and that “agriculture here already as... ...f common day. English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets—Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included—brea... ... a fiction of the past—as it is to some extent a fiction of the present— the poets of the world will be inspired by American mythol ogy. The wildest ...

...lish-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more... ...e aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more com- plete than American thought is yet prepared for, but that is a difference not of quali... ...ed develop principles of primary importance in the fundamen- tal schism of American politics between the local State gov- ernment and the central powe... ...e papers were first published in the British Fortnightly Review and in the American Cosmopolitan. In the latter peri- odical they were, for the most p... ...d, is the gist of this paper—that only a very small minority of English or American people have more than half mastered the splendid heritage of their... ... outside their range. Certain things that have been rather well treated by poets and artists (for the most part dead and of Academic standing) they re...