How To Use Longfellow In A Sentence
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. ——Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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In ourselves are triumph and defeat. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. ——Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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In the search for a text, Elgar lit upon his mother's favourite poet, Longfellow.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. ——Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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The lines are metrical, as in fact they commonly are in the older parts of the Avesta, and the rhythm somewhat recalls the Kalevala verse of Longfellow's
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A verse consisting of a single dactyl is thus _dactylic monometer_; of two dactyls, _dactylic dimeter_; and so on up to _dactylic hexameter_, which is the meter of Homer's "Iliad," Vergil's "Æneid," and Longfellow's
Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism
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His poems were worth as much to magazines as those of Bryant or Longfellow, (though none of the publishers paid him half as large a price for them,) and his tales were as popular as those of Willis, who has been commonly regarded as the best magazinist of his time.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
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Emerson believes in him; Lowell not at all; Longfellow finds some good in his 'yaup;' but the truth is, he is in an amorphous condition.
Authors and Friends
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Mr. Longfellow met us at the door, with that urbanity which is so agreeable a feature in his character, and, on being shown into a very handsome library, we were introduced to Mr.. Longfellow, a lady of dignified appearance and graceful manner.
The Englishwoman in America
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. ——Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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I had, on two or three occasions, used a motto of hers in autograph books, just as I had sentiments from Longfellow, Lowell, Shakespeare, Moses, or Paul.
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The bison know a lot about Longfellow and wisteria and patrimony, the piscine nuance of the clouds, God's topological integument.
The Bison's Alimony
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Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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In closing this sketch, nothing can so delightfully summarize the beauty of the old town of Nuremberg and the character of its great artist as a part of Longfellow's poem, _Nuremberg_: [A]
Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer
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He came to America and staid with me at my home in Lenox, on his way to join the Longfellows at Cambridge.
Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
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At times the illustrations serve as reproachful comment on the inauthenticity of Longfellow's fanciful creation.
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But the beauty of the descriptions in _Evangeline_ and the pathos -- somewhat too drawn out -- of the story made it dear to a multitude of readers who cared nothing about the technical disputes of Poe and other critics as to whether or not Longfellow's lines were sufficiently "spondaic" to represent truthfully the quantitative hexameters of Homer and Vergil.
Initial Studies in American Letters
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How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Music is the universal language of mankind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. ——Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. ——Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The production is based on the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about a Native American named Hiawatha, a real man who lived some 500 years ago.
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It did not share the metrical perfection of a Longfellow or the tiresome "priapism" (Emerson's word, which Higginson liked to repeat) of Walt Whitman.
'White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson'
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. ——Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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In ourselves are triumph and defeat. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Emerson believes in him; Lowell not at all; Longfellow finds some good in his 'yaup;' but the truth is, he is in an amorphous condition.”
Authors and Friends
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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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One thing Longfellow has certainly omitted in "Evangeline" -- the wild flowers of Acadia.
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The grave is but a covered bridge Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. ——Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. ——Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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But last week's bicentennial of the birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow passed largely unnoted, which is noteworthy.
Longfellow: A Founder
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After spending a few days in Evangeline's country, about which Longfellow's beautiful poem has woven a spell of enchantment, Miss Sullivan and I went to Halifax, where we remained the greater part of the summer.
The Story of My Life
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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dactylic" hexameters of Longfellow, written though they were by a skilful versifier, quite conform to "the nature of the language.
A Study of Poetry
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Longfellow, Prescott, or Washington Irving may be seen mixing with the general throng with so much _bonhommie_ and simplicity, that none would fancy that in their own land they are the envy of their age, and sustain world-wide reputations.
The Englishwoman in America
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The grave is but a covered bridge Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Longfellow wrote in hexameters, in the tradition of the classical masters of he epic, Homer and Vergil.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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But the beauty of the descriptions in _Evangeline_ and the pathos -- somewhat too drawn out -- of the story made it dear to a multitude of readers who cared nothing about the technical disputes of Poe and other critics as to whether or not Longfellow's lines were sufficiently "spondaic" to truthfully represent the quantitative hexameters of Homer and Vergil.
Brief History of English and American Literature
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To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The grave is but a covered bridge Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Shakespeare on a hot skiddoo for the sand dunes, and when it comes to that poetry thing he thinks he can make Hank Longfellow beat it up a tree.
Skiddoo!
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Mr. Longfellow met us at the door, with that urbanity which is so agreeable a feature in his character, and, on being shown into a very handsome library, we were introduced to Mrs. Longfellow, a lady of dignified appearance and graceful manner.
The Englishwoman in America
