Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . ?—Give examples of majestic diction. 189-207. God inseparable! What is the figure of speech ? (SeeDef. 24, i.)—In this peroration the Anglo-Saxon words are in the proportionof eighty per cent. Select the classical words, and commit the passage tomemory. 346 WEBSTER. ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout theearth, still full high advanced, its arms a
Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . ?—Give examples of majestic diction. 189-207. God inseparable! What is the figure of speech ? (SeeDef. 24, i.)—In this peroration the Anglo-Saxon words are in the proportionof eighty per cent. Select the classical words, and commit the passage tomemory. 346 WEBSTER. ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout theearth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies * streamingin their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a singlestar obscured ; bearing for its motto, no such miserable inter- 200rogatory as What is all this worth ? nor those other words ofdelusion and folly, Liberty first, and Union afterwards; buteverywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazingon all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over theland, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other 205sentiment, dear to every true American heart — Liberty andUnion, now and forever, one and inseparable ! XXIII. WASHINGTON IRVING. ^yZ^,t.^L:^^^^ J^^^tr-^^yr^ CHARACTERIZATION BY THACKERAY. I. Irving was the first ambassador whom the New World ofletters sent to the Old. He was born almost with the repub- ^ Irving preceded nearly all the authors whose works we think of as consti-tuting American literature—Bryant, Cooper, Longfellow, Channing, Emerson 348 IRVING. lie; t\\& pater patrice had laid his hand on the childs bore Washingtons name ; he came among us bringing thekindest sympathy, the most artless, smiling good-will. 2. His new country (which some people here^ might be dis-posed to regard rather superciliously) could send us, as heshowed in his own person, a gentleman who, though himselfborn in no very high sphere, was most finished, polished, easy,witty, quiet, and socially the eq
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