God charmed your life, but you saved mine.

you thought me so morose and ungrateful, nay, when, as you now admit, you half thought me plotting your murder, at those very times my heart was frozen

and broken in body and mind

The place called the cuddy was a light deck-cabin formed by the poop, a sort of attic to the large cabin below.

“master told me never mind where he was, or how engaged, always to remind him to a minute, when shaving-time comes.

serving the oldest white no better than the youngest black

I dare say, Spaniards in the main are as good folks as any in Duxbury, Massachusetts.

His conscience is clean

he began to feel a ghostly dread of Don Benito

It was then I vowed never to have for fellow-voyager a man I loved, unless, unbeknown to him

“I am owner of all you see,”

Suddenly, one of the black boys, enraged at a word dropped by one of his white companions, seized a knife, and, though called to forbear by one of the oakum-pickers, struck the lad over the head, inflicting a gash from which blood flowed.

the wind entirely died away, and the tide turning, began drifting back the ship helplessly seaward

elderly grizzled negroes, their heads like black, doddered willow tops

by a clamorous throng of whites and blacks,

_Seguid vuestro jefe_”

Her keel seemed laid, her ribs put together, and she launched, from Ezekiel’s Valley of Dry Bones.

the stranger might have been long off soundings, the good captain put several baskets of the fish, for presents, into his boat, and so pulled away.

a sunken reef making out off her bow.

Whether, in view of what humanity is capable, such a trait implies, along with a benevolent heart, more than ordinary quickness and accuracy of intellectual perception, may be left to the wise to determine.

not so plenty

There he had touched for water.

valuable cargo,

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself

We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other

. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should. I will not hide my tastes or aversions.

The power men possess to annoy me

Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood? All men have my blood, and I have all men’s

ONE.

When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.

present, above time.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion?

In history, our imagination plays us false

all history resolves

A great man is coming to eat at my house. I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me

a dead church

you are a man,

if I am the Devil’s child, I will live then from the Devil

A man is relieved and gay

t God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages

Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.”

“Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late.

invited me to dinner.

I gave him my Bible

my son Joseph unexpectedly came to me.

the company

set their wigwams on fire,

I told them it was the Sabbath day, and desired them to let me rest, and told them I would do as much more tomorrow; to which they answered me they would break my face. And here I cannot but take notice of the strange providence of God in preserving the heathen

but the third week

(Isaiah 43.2).

as a favor of God to my weakened body,

with their old and with their young:

Jehu

whilst the rest escaped.

Yet the Lord still showed mercy to me, and upheld me

about an hour by sun,

her wound.

no Christian friend near me

but God was with me in a wonderful manner, carrying me along, and bearing up my spirit, that it did not quite fail.

(except my life), and I knew not but the next moment that might go too.

those black creatures in the night,

“What, will you love English men still?”

intended to lodge.

with those barbarous creatures, with our bodies wounded and bleeding, and our hearts no less than our bodies.

even weave some comedy and sass in there.

American literature as a corpus.

We do not claim to have a “perfect” or “complete” representation of American literature.

of two continents and wherever their influence spreads

It provides insight into what has happened in the past, while also giving students the tools to think critically about what’s happening within the field of American literature in the present.

This anthology is unique because it was made by students, for students.

very parameters

The bones stood up and were immediately covered with flesh. The brothers recognized one another, and one and all praised Little Elk for his courage and his patience. Then they vanished down the trail in the forest.

'How long have you been here?'

"I will take the boy, and he shall help to avenge their death."

"I never kill the brave or the innocent," said he; "but she has no mercy, and draws men to their death by her sweet songs

He was delighted to see him, for he had long since supposed him dead. He laughed so loudly that the clouds were broken and a rainbow appeared above the trees.

all his skill and magic,

Deep Lake knew well about the Great Head. It was an enormous head without any body. It had large eyes that rolled about fearfully, and long, coarse hair like that of the grizzly bear, and it streamed over the huge cleft rock that was his home. Seen or unseen, if it caught sight of any living thing it would shriek in a shrill voice, "I see thee, I see thee; thou shalt die!"

Thus they all followed one another, until only the youngest, Little Elk, was left with his uncle. He was too small and feeble to hope to succeed where his brothers had failed; and Deep Lake forbade him going out alone, for fear the witch or giant who had destroyed his brothers should do him harm

but died within a few moons of each other.