Belief and Disbelief in American LiteratureTom Paine and republican religion -- Landscape as religion: Irving, Bryant, Cooper -- Transcendentalism and Emerson -- The cosmic optimism of Walt Whitman -- The pessimism of Mark Twain -- The cosmic loneliness of Robert Frost. |
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... night . The moon was young , but the stars gave forth a brightness that is rarely seen , except in the clear cold nights of a high latitude . Each and all of these sublime emblems of the power of God were twinkling like bright torches ...
... night . The moon was young , but the stars gave forth a brightness that is rarely seen , except in the clear cold nights of a high latitude . Each and all of these sublime emblems of the power of God were twinkling like bright torches ...
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... night , glowing with its bright worlds and suns , doubtless the centres of other systems in which distance swallowed up the lesser orbs . Roswell had seen chemical experiments that produced wonderful illuminations ; but faint , indeed ...
... night , glowing with its bright worlds and suns , doubtless the centres of other systems in which distance swallowed up the lesser orbs . Roswell had seen chemical experiments that produced wonderful illuminations ; but faint , indeed ...
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... night Offered an opening to the source of dew ; Which I accepted with impatient sight , Looking for my old skymarks in the blue . But stars were scarce in that part of the sky , And no two were of the same constellation- No one was ...
... night Offered an opening to the source of dew ; Which I accepted with impatient sight , Looking for my old skymarks in the blue . But stars were scarce in that part of the sky , And no two were of the same constellation- No one was ...
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Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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