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Give the title for the quote:  In the woods, we return to reason and faith. there I feel that nothing can befal me in life, –no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, –my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,–all mean egoism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

Identify the title:It is not that a leg is lost,It is not that an arm is maimed,It is not that the fever has racked–Self he has long disclaimed.But all through the Seven Days’ Fight,And deep in the Wilderness grim,And in the field-hospital tent,And Petersburg crater, and dimLean brooding in Libby, there came–Ah heaven!–what truth to him.

Identify the title:  With hinged knees returning I enter the doors, (while for you up there, Whoever you are, follow without noise and be of strong heart.) Bearing the bandages, water and sponge, Straight and swift to my wounded I go, Where they lie on the ground after the battle brought in, Where their priceless blood reddens the grass the ground, Or to the rows of the hospital tent, or under the roof’d hospital, To the long rows of cots up and down each side I return.

Identify: Franklin used this fictional persona to dispense practical advice to his fellow colonists in almanac form.

Identify: The weak point in Fortunato that allows Montresor to lure him to his death in the catacomb.

Identify the title:  Oft, in the sunless April day,  Thy early smile has stayed my walks;  But midst the gorgeous blooms of May,  I passed thee prn thy humble stalk.  So they, who climb to wealth, forget  The friends in darker fortunes tried.  I copied them—but I regret  That I should ape the ways of pride.  And when again the genial hour  Awakes the painted tribes of light,  I’ll not o’erlook the modest flower  That made the woods of April bright.

Identify the speaker: “I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, and I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.”

Identify: In this view, the philosophers and writers of the Romantic Age 1800s were led to a conclusion by using emotions that through the creation they could go beyond the material world to experience and be at one with the Creator. Nature was an emotional experience rather than a logical, scientific experience. They believed that there was a spark of the divine in every human being and supported the abolition of slavery and the rights of women. They urged people to trust their own inner instincts and to be individualists.    

  Identify the title of the quote: . . .several testified that the Shape of the prisoner did oftentimes very grievously pinch them, choke them, bite them, and afflict them, urging them to write their names in a Book, which the sad specter called Ours…It was testified that at the examination of the prisoner before the magistrates, the bewitched were extremely tortured. If she did but cast her eyes on them, they were presently struck down . . .

Identify the title: Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominanting in all their being.