Tales And Sketches
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" The wildlypicturesque Indian, darting his birch canoe down the Falls of theAmoskeag or gliding in the deer-track of the forest, was, in their view, nothing but a "dirty tawnie, " a "salvage heathen, " and "devil's imp. "Many of them were well educated, --men of varied and profound erudition, and familiar with the best specimens of Greek and Roman literature; yetthey seem to have been utterly devoid of that poetic feeling or fancywhose subtle alchemy detects the beautiful in the familiar. Thei...r veryhymns and spiritual songs seem to have been expressly calculated, like"the music-grinders" of Holmes, -- "To pluck the eyes of sentiment, And dock the tail of rhyme, To crack the voice of melody, And break the legs of time. " They were sworn enemies of the Muses; haters of stage-play literature, profane songs, and wanton sonnets; of everything, in brief, whichreminded them of the days of the roistering cavaliers and bedizenedbeauties of the court of "the man Charles, " whose head had fallenbeneath the sword of Puritan justice.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" The wildlypicturesque Indian, darting his birch canoe down the Falls of theAmoskeag or gliding in the deer-track of the forest, was, in their view, nothing but a "dirty tawnie, " a "salvage heathen, " and "devil's imp. "Many of them were well educated, --men of varied and profound erudition, and familiar with the best specimens of Greek and Roman literature; yetthey seem to have been utterly devoid of that poetic feeling or fancywhose subtle alchemy detects the beautiful in the familiar. Thei...r veryhymns and spiritual songs seem to have been expressly calculated, like"the music-grinders" of Holmes, -- "To pluck the eyes of sentiment, And dock the tail of rhyme, To crack the voice of melody, And break the legs of time. " They were sworn enemies of the Muses; haters of stage-play literature, profane songs, and wanton sonnets; of everything, in brief, whichreminded them of the days of the roistering cavaliers and bedizenedbeauties of the court of "the man Charles, " whose head had fallenbeneath the sword of Puritan justice.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Whittier John Greenleaf to read onlineMoreLess
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