Editorial written in remembrance of Elijah Parish Lovejoy, Presbyterian minister, journalist, newspaper editor and abolitionist, who was murdered by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois during their attack on his warehouse to destroy his press and abolitionist materials.
Contesto: The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine and animadvert upon all political institutions, is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact to their existence, that without it we must fall at once into depression or anarchy. To say that he who holds unpopular opinions must hold them at the peril of his life, and that, if he expresses them in public, he has only himself to blame if they who disagree with him should rise and put him to death, is to strike at all rights, all liberties, all protection of the laws, and to justify and extenuate all crimes.
William Cullen Bryant: Frasi in inglese
"The Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus" in Poems (1841)
Contesto: I would make
Reason my guide, but she should sometimes sit
Patiently by the way-side, while I traced
The mazes of the pleasant wilderness
Around me. She should be my counsellor,
But not my tyrant. For the spirit needs
Impulses from a deeper source than hers,
And there are motions, in the mind of man,
That she must look upon with awe. I bow
Reverently to her dictates, but not less
Hold to the fair illusions of old time —
lllusions that shed brightness over life,
And glory over nature.
"The Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus" in Poems (1841)
Contesto: I would make
Reason my guide, but she should sometimes sit
Patiently by the way-side, while I traced
The mazes of the pleasant wilderness
Around me. She should be my counsellor,
But not my tyrant. For the spirit needs
Impulses from a deeper source than hers,
And there are motions, in the mind of man,
That she must look upon with awe. I bow
Reverently to her dictates, but not less
Hold to the fair illusions of old time —
lllusions that shed brightness over life,
And glory over nature.
Death of the Flowers http://www.bartleby.com/248/85.html (1832), st. 4, lines 23-24
A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson http://www.4literature.net/William_Cullen_Bryant/Scene_on_the_Banks_of_the_Hudson/, st. 3 (1828)
Autumn Woods. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Attributed
Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page91 (1820)
The Strange Lady http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page211, st. 6 (1835)
The Prairies http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Bryant/prairies.html, l. 1 (1833)
The Crowded Street http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page253, st. 10 (1864)
“Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.”
Origine: Thanatopsis (1817–1821), l. 43
“All that tread,
The globe are but a handful to the tribes
That slumber in its bosom.”
Origine: Thanatopsis (1817–1821), l. 48
“And the blue gentian flower, that, in the breeze,
Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.”
November. A Sonnet http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page74 (1824)
To a Waterfowl http://www.bartleby.com/102/17.html, st. 8 (1818)
The Twenty-Second of December http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page154, st. 1
The Third of November, 1861. Thirty Poems. Appleton, New York. pp. 112-115. (1864)
To a Waterfowl http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page20, st. 2 (1815)
The Serenade http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page189, St. 14
as quoted in Poems http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=Ep4tAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&vq=%22The+love+of+God%22#v=onepage&q=%22The%20love%20of%20God%22&f=false, from the Provensal Of Bernard Rascas
“And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief,
And the year smiles as it draws near its death.”
October. A Sonnet http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page115 (1866)
“The hills,
Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun.”
Origine: Thanatopsis (1817–1821), l. 37
March. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Attributed
“Go forth under the open sky, and list
To Nature's teachings.”
Origine: Thanatopsis (1817–1821), l. 14
“The victory of endurance born.”
The Battlefield http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page222 (1839), st. 8
The Ages http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page1, st. XXXIII (1821)
Origine: Thanatopsis (1817–1821), l. 1
