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http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_14_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,398.15 | 2,410.55 | sketch afterward amplified and enriched of that perfect yankee idyl the courtin between eighteen sixty two and eighteen sixty five a second series of biglow papers appeared called out by the events of the civil war | 12.4 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550000 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_16_beers_64kb.mp3 | 853.68 | 864.61 | lincoln's little stories were characteristically western and it is doubtful whether he was more endeared to the masses by his solid virtues than by the humorous perception which made him one of them | 10.93 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550001 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_07_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,864.13 | 1,877.71 | landor's writings have never been popular they address an aristocracy of scholars and byron whom landor disliked and considered vulgar sneered at the latter as a writer who cultivated much private renown in the shape of latin verses | 13.58 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550002 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_07_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,208.38 | 1,223.05 | it was in his suggestiveness that coleridge's great service to posterity resided he was what j s mill called a seminal mind and his thought had that power of stimulating thought in others which is the mark and the privilege of original genius | 14.67 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550003 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_16_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,042.09 | 2,058.95 | on the coast itself nature was unfamiliar the climate was sub-tropical fruits and vegetables grew to a mammoth size corresponding to the enormous redwoods in the mariposa groves and the prodigious scale of the scenery in the valley of the yo semite and the snow-capped peaks of the sierras | 16.86 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550004 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_10_beers_64kb.mp3 | 3,326.72 | 3,338.77 | the memoranda from edwards's note-books quoted by his editor and biographer exhibit a remarkable precocity even as a school-boy and a college student he had made deep guesses in physics as well as metaphysics | 12.05 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550005 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_10_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,110.71 | 2,127.37 | in particular there gradually arises from the entries in his diary a very distinct and diverting outline of captain john underhill celebrated in whittier's poem he was one of the few professional soldiers who came over with the puritan fathers such as john mason the hero of the pequot war | 16.66 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550006 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_15_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,950.28 | 1,964.53 | the necessity of defending its peculiar institution against the attacks of a growing faction in the north compelled the south to throw all its intellectual strength into politics which for that matter is the natural occupation and excitement of a social aristocracy | 14.25 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550007 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_13_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,712.68 | 2,731.36 | in the preface to the marble faun hawthorne wrote no author without a trial can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow no antiquity no mystery no picturesque and gloomy wrong nor any thing but a commonplace prosperity in broad and simple daylight | 18.68 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550008 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_13_beers_64kb.mp3 | 991.88 | 1,009.11 | transcendentalism claims for the innate ideas of god and the soul a higher assurance of reality than for the knowledge of the outside world derived through the senses emerson shares the noble doubt of idealism he calls the universe a shade a dream this great apparition | 17.23 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550009 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_08_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,578.19 | 1,588.22 | in his history of england he inaugurated the picturesque method of historical writing the book was as fascinating as any novel | 10.03 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550010 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_16_beers_64kb.mp3 | 275.02 | 286.08 | during the war timrod was with the confederate army of the west as correspondent for the charleston mercury and in eighteen sixty four he became assistant editor of the south carolinian at | 11.06 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550011 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_04_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,731.67 | 1,743.59 | thou canst not every day give me thy heart if thou canst give it then thou never gav'st it love's riddles are that though thy heart depart it stays at home and thou with losing sav'st it | 11.92 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550012 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_01_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,217.65 | 1,235.99 | with a fixed shape and a unity and vitality which have prolonged it to our own day and rendered it capable of a deeper and more spiritual treatment and a more artistic handling by such modern english poets as tennyson in his idyls of the king by matthew arnold swinburne and many others | 18.34 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550013 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_10_beers_64kb.mp3 | 3,260.75 | 3,278.89 | you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours you hang by a slender thread with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it if you cry to god to pity you he will be so far from pitying you in your doleful case that he will only tread you under foot | 18.14 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550014 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_04_beers_64kb.mp3 | 569.19 | 587.8 | but in all their piteous passages there is nothing equal to the natural pathos the pathos which arises from the deep springs of character-of that one brief question and answer in king lear lear so young and so untender cordelia so young my lord and true | 18.61 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550015 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_11_beers_64kb.mp3 | 882.38 | 900.43 | the most elaborate and the best known of them is his farewell address issued on his retirement from the presidency in seventeen ninety six in the composition of this he was assisted by madison hamilton and jay it is wise in substance and dignified though somewhat stilted in expression | 18.05 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550016 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_13_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,520.85 | 1,537.49 | she lives less through her books than through the memoirs of her friends emerson james freeman clarke t w higginson and others who knew her as a personal influence her strenuous and rather overbearing individuality made an impression not altogether agreeable upon many of her contemporaries | 16.64 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550017 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_05_beers_64kb.mp3 | 357.53 | 376.98 | some couplets of which are generally quoted as butler's as for example no man e'er felt the halter draw with good opinion of the law the rebound against puritanism is seen no less plainly in the drama of the restoration and the stage now took vengeance for its enforced silence under the protectorate | 19.45 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550018 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_15_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,472.59 | 2,484.61 | the dangerous quickness with which he caught the manner of other poets made him an admirable parodist and translator his echo club eighteen seventy six contained some of the best travesties in the tongue | 12.02 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550019 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_10_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,097.1 | 2,110.71 | without any effort at dramatic portraiture or character sketching winthrop managed in all simplicity and by the plain relation of facts to leave a clear impression of many of the prominent figures in the first massachusetts immigration | 13.61 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550020 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_06_beers_64kb.mp3 | 897.65 | 914.72 | and macaulay said that the man who was known to his contemporaries as a great writer was known to posterity as an agreeable companion johnson was one of those rugged eccentric self-developed characters so common among the english he was the son of a lichfield book-seller | 17.07 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550021 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_14_beers_64kb.mp3 | 586.21 | 597.47 | the golden light of romance is shed upon his page and it is his habit to borrow mediaeval and catholic imagery from his favorite middle ages even when writing of american subjects | 11.26 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550022 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_03_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,686.47 | 2,702.73 | there is one noble chorus o proud revolt of a presumptuous man etc which reminds one of passages in milton's samson agonistes and occasionally peele rises to such high aeschylean audacities as this | 16.26 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550023 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_16_beers_64kb.mp3 | 864.61 | 881.98 | the humor of which we are speaking now is a strictly popular and national possession though america has never or not until lately had a comic paper ranking with punch or charivari or the fliegende bltter every newspaper has had its funny column | 17.37 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550024 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_00_beers_64kb.mp3 | 413.24 | 423.67 | books in philosophy history science etc however important in the history of english thought receive the merest incidental mention or even no mention at all | 10.43 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550025 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_15_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,326.94 | 1,344.9 | he died of delirium tremens at the marine hospital in baltimore his life was one of the most wretched in literary history he was an extreme instance of what used to be called the eccentricity of genius he had the irritable vanity which is popularly supposed to accompany the poetic temperament and was so insanely egotis... | 17.96 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550026 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_12_beers_64kb.mp3 | 954.54 | 967.25 | this story though well vouched is hard of belief for knickerbocker though excellent fooling has nothing of the grave irony of swift in his modest proposal or of defoe in his short way with dissenters | 12.71 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550027 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_03_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,714.15 | 2,733.16 | his plays are slovenly and careless in construction and he puts classical allusions into the mouths of milkmaids and serving boys with the grotesque pedantry and want of keeping common among the playwrights of the early stage he has notwithstanding in his comedy parts more natural lightness and grace than either marlow... | 19.01 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550028 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_01_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,861.62 | 1,881.17 | about thirteen seventy seven the whole was greatly enlarged by the author piers plowman was the first extended literary work after the conquest which was purely english in character it owed nothing to france but the allegorical cast which the roman de la rose had made fashionable in both countries | 19.55 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550029 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_08_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,774.7 | 2,791.83 | the odd grotesque impression made by his poetry arises in part from his desire to use the artistic values of ugliness as well as of obscurity to avoid the shallow prettiness that comes from blinking the disagreeable truth not to leave the saltness out of the sea | 17.13 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550030 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_13_beers_64kb.mp3 | 943.31 | 962.77 | the definition of the new faith given by emerson in his lecture on the transcendentalists eighteen forty two is as follows what is popularly called transcendentalism among us is idealism the idealism of the present day acquired the name of transcendental from the use of that term by immanuel | 19.46 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550031 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_15_beers_64kb.mp3 | 758.22 | 770.83 | supernatural a mine which he afterward worked to good purpose in the bridal of pennacook the witch's daughter and similar poems some of the legends testify to brainard's influence and to the influence of whittier's temporary residence at hartford | 12.61 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550032 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_04_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,142.66 | 1,155.63 | browne's style though too highly latinized is a good example of commonwealth prose that stately cumbrous brocaded prose which had something of the flow and measure of verse rather than the quicker colloquial movement of modern writing | 12.97 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550033 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_10_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,697.48 | 2,708.81 | cotton mather born in sixteen sixty three was of the second generation of americans his grandfather being of the immigration but his father a native of dorchester mass | 11.33 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550034 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_07_beers_64kb.mp3 | 58.21 | 72.36 | wordsworth coleridge scott byron shelley and keats are all great names while southey landor moore lamb and de quincey would be noteworthy figures at any period and deserve a fuller mention than can be here accorded them | 14.15 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550035 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_14_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,793.29 | 1,807.46 | with the rest of society he was disposed to ridicule the abolition movement as a crotchet of the eccentric and the long-haired but when the civil war broke out he lent his pen his tongue and his own flesh and blood to the cause of the union | 14.17 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550036 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_10_beers_64kb.mp3 | 928.22 | 941.91 | and gave an account of the survey in his history of the dividing line which was only printed in eighteen forty one colonel byrd is one of the most brilliant figures of colonial virginia and a type of the old virginia gentleman | 13.69 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550037 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_08_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,141.25 | 2,151.34 | the pieces in this little volume like the sleeping beauty ode to memory and recollections of the arabian nights were full of color fragrance melody | 10.09 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550038 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_04_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,690.19 | 1,700.28 | if he would persuade her to marriage he calls her attention to a flea me it sucked first and now sucks thee and in this flea our two bloods mingled | 10.09 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550039 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_16_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,091.44 | 2,106.79 | surveyors and geologists came of necessity speculators in mining stock and city lots set up their offices in the towns later came a sprinkling of school-teachers and ministers fortunes were made in one day and lost the next at poker | 15.35 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550040 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_07_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,877.71 | 1,894.45 | he said of himself that he never contended with a contemporary but walked alone on the far eastern uplands meditating and remembering a schoolmate of coleridge at christ's hospital and his friend and correspondent through life was charles lamb one of the most charming of english essayists | 16.74 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550041 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_08_beers_64kb.mp3 | 427.85 | 444.64 | there is much false art bad taste and even vulgarity in dickens he was never quite a gentleman and never succeeded well in drawing gentlemen or ladies in the region of low comedy he is easily the most original the most inexhaustible the most wonderful of modern humorists | 16.79 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550042 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_02_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,590.09 | 2,600.12 | thus gloriana the queen of faery stands not only for glory but for elizabeth to whom the poem was dedicated prince arthur is leicester as well as magnificence | 10.03 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550043 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_03_beers_64kb.mp3 | 3,319.91 | 3,339.53 | there is little character-drawing in the play any two pairs of twins in the same predicament would be equally droll the fun lies in the situation this was a comedy of the latin school and resembled the menaechmi of plautus shakspere never returned to this type of play though there is an element of errors in midsummer n... | 19.62 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550044 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_03_beers_64kb.mp3 | 372.31 | 383.65 | but it is in substance nothing but a series of dialogues on love friendship religion etc written in language which from the title of the book has received the name of euphuism | 11.34 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550045 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_14_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,743.04 | 1,757.58 | there was a good deal of toryism or social conservatism in holmes he acknowledged a preference for the man with a pedigree the man who owned family portraits had been brought up in familiarity with books and could pronounce view correctly | 14.54 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550046 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_04_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,316.04 | 2,334.12 | born into an age of spiritual conflict he dedicated his gift to the service of heaven and he became like heine a valiant soldier in the war for liberation he was the poet of a cause and his song was keyed to the dorian mood of flutes and soft recorders such as raised to heighth of noblest temper | 18.08 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550047 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_09_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,117.28 | 1,136.94 | hugh blair seventeen eighteen eighteen hundred the scotchman whose sermons for many years rivaled his lectures on rhetoric in popularity joseph priestley seventeen thirty three to eighteen o four illustrious in the annals of chemical discovery who wrote institutes of natural and revealed religion and is one of the most... | 19.66 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550048 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_03_beers_64kb.mp3 | 3,301.58 | 3,319.91 | the comedy of errors was an experiment of an exactly opposite kind it was a play purely of incident a farce in which the main improbability being granted namely that the twin antipholi and twin dromios are so alike that they cannot be distinguished all the amusing complications follow naturally enough | 18.33 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550049 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_11_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,727.57 | 2,737.94 | is led on by what he mistakes for spiritual voices to kill his wife and children and the voices turn out to be produced by the ventriloquism of one carwin the villain of the story | 10.37 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550050 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_01_beers_64kb.mp3 | 624.4 | 635.33 | the saxon chronicle the last of them matthew of westminster finished his work in twelve seventy three about thirteen hundred a monk of gloucester | 10.93 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550051 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_11_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,528.74 | 1,542.47 | no man e'er felt the halter draw with good opinion of the law or this for any man with half an eye what stands before him may espy but optics sharp it needs i ween to see what is not to be seen | 13.73 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550052 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_02_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,968.41 | 1,986.99 | when elizabeth came to the throne in fifteen fifty eight a more settled order of things began and a period of great national prosperity and glory meanwhile the english mind had been slowly assimilating the new classical culture which was extended to all classes of readers by the numerous translations of greek and latin... | 18.58 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550053 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_14_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,757.58 | 1,775.12 | readers unhappily not of the brahmin caste of new england have sometimes resented as snobbishness holmes's harping on family and his perpetual application of certain favorite shibboleths to other people's ways of speech the woman who calc'lates is lost | 17.54 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550054 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_15_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,918.43 | 1,933.49 | the conditions which had made the southern colonies unfruitful in literary and educational works before the revolution continued to act down to the time of the civil war eli whitney's invention of the cotton gin in the closing years of the last century gave extension to slavery | 15.06 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550055 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_17_beers_64kb.mp3 | 253.78 | 265.14 | they are john with seventeen twenty two seventeen ninety four who while he is better known as the sixth president of the college of new jersey and a political writer of the revolution | 11.36 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550056 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_07_beers_64kb.mp3 | 3,630.08 | 3,640.99 | his friend the artist haydon lent him a copy of chapman's homer and the impression that it made upon him he recorded in his sonnet on first looking into chapman's homer | 10.91 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550057 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_04_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,713.29 | 1,731.67 | he ransacked cosmography astrology alchemy optics the canon law and the divinity of the schoolmen for ink-horn terms and similes he was in verse what browne was in prose he loved to play with distinctions hyperboles paradoxes the very casuistry and dialectics of love or devotion | 18.38 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550058 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_05_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,202.51 | 2,219.86 | his poems read like a series of epigrams and every line has a hit or an effect from the reign of queen anne date the beginnings of the periodical essay newspapers had been published since the time of the civil war at first irregularly and then regularly | 17.35 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550059 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_16_beers_64kb.mp3 | 309.72 | 328.95 | where some beneath virginian hills and some by green atlantic rills some by the waters of the west a myriad unknown heroes rest when the war was over a poet of new york state f m finch sang of these and of other graves in his beautiful decoration day lyric the blue and the gray | 19.23 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550060 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_05_beers_64kb.mp3 | 343.37 | 357.53 | tis strange what difference there can be twixt tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee hudibras has had many imitators not the least successful of whom was the american john trumbull in his revolutionary satire m'fingal | 14.16 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550061 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_10_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,506.37 | 1,520.18 | eliot hoped and toiled a lifetime for the conversion of those salvages tawnies devil-worshipers for whom our early writers have usually nothing but bad words they have been destroyed instead of converted | 13.81 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550062 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_06_beers_64kb.mp3 | 863.7 | 878.73 | boswell was not a very wise or witty person but he reverenced the worth and intellect which shone through his subject's uncouth exterior he followed him about note-book in hand bore all his snubbings patiently and made the best biography ever written | 15.03 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550063 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_04_beers_64kb.mp3 | 556.89 | 569.19 | alas my lord my life is not a thing worthy your noble thoughts tis not a life tis but a piece of childhood thrown away beaumont and fletcher's love-lorn maids wear the willow very sweetly | 12.3 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550064 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_03_beers_64kb.mp3 | 961.65 | 978.83 | america was still a land of wonder and romance full of rumors nightmares and enchantments in fifteen eighty when francis drake the devonshire skipper had dropped anchor in plymouth harbor after his voyage around the world the enthusiasm of england had been mightily stirred | 17.18 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550065 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_14_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,989.97 | 3,001.69 | the episodes of the siege of antwerp and the sack of the cathedral and of the defeat and wreck of the spanish armada are as graphic as prescott's famous description of cortez's capture of the city of mexico | 11.72 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550066 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_16_beers_64kb.mp3 | 3,279.79 | 3,293.71 | and the engagement is broken by her in consequence of an unintended slight the betrayal on the hero's part of a shade of mortification when he and his betrothed are suddenly brought into the presence of some fashionable ladies belonging to his own | 13.92 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550067 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_01_beers_64kb.mp3 | 590.99 | 605.18 | as greatly did he love the tall deer as if he were their father with the discontinuance of the peterborough annals english history written in english prose ceased for three hundred years | 14.19 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550068 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_12_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,523.99 | 1,543.42 | halleck was born in guilford connecticut whither he retired in eighteen forty nine and resided there till his death in eighteen sixty seven but his literary career is identified with new york he was associated with drake in writing the croaker papers a series of humorous and satirical verses contributed in eighteen fou... | 19.43 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550069 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_08_beers_64kb.mp3 | 398.06 | 415.53 | there was a histrionic side to him which came out in his fondness for private theatricals in which he exhibited remarkable talent and in the dramatic action which he introduced into the delightful public readings from his works that he gave before vast audiences all over the united kingdom and in his two visits to amer... | 17.47 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550070 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_04_beers_64kb.mp3 | 541.72 | 556.89 | olivia philaster is persuaded by slanderers that his page and his lady have been unfaithful to him and in his jealous fury he wounds euphrasia with his sword afterward convinced of the boy's fidelity he asks forgiveness whereto euphrasia replies | 15.17 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550071 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_15_beers_64kb.mp3 | 743.27 | 758.22 | at hartford too he published his first book a volume of prose and verse entitled legends of new england eighteen thirty one which is not otherwise remarkable than as showing his early interest in indian colonial traditions especially those which had a touch of the supernatural a | 14.95 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550072 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_01_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,267.58 | 1,280.79 | there is a considerable body of religious writing in early english consisting of homilies in prose and verse books of devotion like the ancren riwle rule of anchoresses twelve twenty five the ayenbite of inwyt | 13.21 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550073 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_14_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,775.12 | 1,793.29 | learning condemns beyond the reach of hope the careless lips that speak of soap for soap do put your accents in the proper spot don't let me beg you don't say how for what the things named pants in certain documents a word not made for gentlemen but gents | 18.17 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550074 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_15_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,360.51 | 1,373.81 | in the place of moral feeling he had the artistic conscience in his critical papers except where warped by passion or prejudice he showed neither fear nor favor denouncing bad work by the most illustrious hands and commending obscure merit | 13.3 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550075 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_15_beers_64kb.mp3 | 147.35 | 161.51 | still others like emerson and thoreau by living in the country and making their modest competence eked out in emerson's case by lecturing here and there suffice for their simple needs secured themselves freedom from the restraints of any regular calling | 14.16 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550076 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_07_beers_64kb.mp3 | 625.46 | 636.25 | such are out of many ruth lucy a portrait to a highland girl the reverie of poor susan to the cuckoo the reaper | 10.79 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550077 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_03_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,107.46 | 2,124.02 | masques and interludes the latter a species of short farce were popular at the court of henry the eighth elizabeth was often entertained at the universities or at the inns of court with latin plays or with translations from seneca euripides and ariosto | 16.56 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550078 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_15_beers_64kb.mp3 | 3,106.45 | 3,118.65 | whitman holds that nakedness is chaste that all the functions of the body in healthy exercise are equally clean that all in fact are divine and that matter is as divine as spirit | 12.2 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550079 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_03_beers_64kb.mp3 | 345.38 | 356.45 | while following up spenser's career to its close fifteen ninety nine we have for the sake of unity of treatment anticipated somewhat the literary history of the twenty years preceding | 11.07 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550080 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_10_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,069.88 | 2,080.85 | winthrop put great faith in special providences and among other instances narrates not without a certain grim satisfaction how the mary rose a ship of bristol | 10.97 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550081 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_13_beers_64kb.mp3 | 325.6 | 343.34 | was hawthorne's blithedale romance which has for its background an idealized picture of the community life whose heroine zenobia has touches of margaret fuller and whose hero with his hobby of prison reform was a type of the one-idead philanthropists that abounded in such an environment | 17.74 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550082 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_07_beers_64kb.mp3 | 41.91 | 58.21 | the later age gave birth to no supreme poets like shakspere and milton it produced no hamlet and no paradise lost but it offers a greater number of important writers a higher average of excellence and a wider range and variety of literary work than any preceding era | 16.3 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550083 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_03_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,733.16 | 2,749.05 | in his friar bacon and friar bungay and his pinner of wakefield there is a fresh breath as of the green english country in such passages as the description of oxford the scene at harleston fair and the picture of the dairy in the keeper's lodge at merry fressingfield | 15.89 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550084 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_00_beers_64kb.mp3 | 394.5 | 413.24 | preface in so brief a history of so rich a literature the problem is how to get room enough to give not an adequate impression that is impossible but any impression at all of the subject to do this i have crowded out everything but belles-lettres | 18.74 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550085 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_15_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,933.49 | 1,950.28 | making it profitable to cultivate the new staple by enormous gangs of field hands working under the whip of the overseer in large plantations slavery became henceforth a business speculation in the states furthest south and not as in old virginia and kentucky a comparatively mild domestic system | 16.79 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550086 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_08_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,163.3 | 2,180.12 | a number of them claribel lilian adeline isabel mariana madeline were sketches of women not character portraits like browning's men and women but impressions of temperament of delicately differentiated types of feminine beauty | 16.82 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550087 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_16_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,481.88 | 1,496.59 | he is a shrewd observer and his humor has a more satirical side than artemus ward's sometimes passing into downright denunciation he delights particularly in ridiculing sentimental humbug and moralizing cant | 14.71 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550088 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_06_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,465.69 | 1,482.65 | as fielding had introduced in squire western the equally national type of the hard-swearing deep-drinking fox-hunting tory squire both fielding and smollett were of the hearty british beef and beer school their novels are downright energetic coarse and high-blooded | 16.96 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550089 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_16_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,074.99 | 2,091.44 | crime went unpunished or was taken in hand when it got too rampant by vigilance committees in the diggings shaggy frontiersmen and pikes from missouri mingled with the scum of eastern cities and with broken-down business men and young college graduates seeking their fortune | 16.45 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550090 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_05_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,625.6 | 1,641.32 | taste continued to be governed by the precepts of boileau and the french classical school poetry remained chiefly didactic and satirical and satire in pope's hands was more personal even than in dryden's and addressed itself less to public issues | 15.72 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550091 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_16_beers_64kb.mp3 | 1,445.3 | 1,462.36 | if he did not originate he at any rate employed very effectively that now familiar device of the newspaper funny man of putting a painful situation euphemistically as when he says of a man who was hanged that he received injuries which terminated in his death | 17.06 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550092 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_08_beers_64kb.mp3 | 387.68 | 398.06 | this showed itself in an unnatural exaggeration of characters and motives and a painful straining after humorous effects faults indeed from which dickens was never wholly free | 10.38 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550093 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_11_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,104.63 | 2,119.02 | long kept its place in school readers and other collections his son joseph hopkinson wrote the song of hail columbia which is saved from insignificance only by the music to which it was married the then popular air of the president's march | 14.39 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550094 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_11_beers_64kb.mp3 | 869.72 | 882.38 | washington's writings have been collected by jared sparks they consist of journals letters messages addresses and public documents for the most part plain and business-like in manner and without any literary pretensions | 12.66 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550095 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_11_beers_64kb.mp3 | 257.88 | 275.61 | gentlemen may cry peace peace but there is no peace 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 | 17.73 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550096 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_04_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,932.23 | 2,946.23 | or when the puritan turns among the sweet landscapes of eden to denounce court amours mixed dance or wanton mask or midnight ball or serenade which the starved lover sings to his proud fair best quitted with disdain | 14 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550097 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_16_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,674.49 | 2,690.2 | he was not careful to secure a photographic fidelity to the surface facts of speech dress manners etc thus the talk of his characters is book talk and not the actual language of the parlor or the street with its slang its colloquial ease | 15.71 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550098 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/brief_history_engliterature_0903_librivox/englishamericanliterature_07_beers_64kb.mp3 | 2,465.85 | 2,481 | it is instructive of the difference between the two ages in poetic sensibility to such things to compare byron's glowing imagery with addison's tame letter from italy written a century before childe harold was followed by a series of metrical tales | 15.15 | 1649 | 2917 | chunk_0151_row_7550099 |
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