Cyclopædia of American Literature, Volume 1C. Scribner, 1855 - American literature |
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... happy days were spent , The yet - free Earth did of her own accord ( Untorn with ploughs ) all sorts of fruit afford . Content with nature's unenforced food , They gather wildings , straw'bries of the wood , Sour cornels , what upon the ...
... happy days were spent , The yet - free Earth did of her own accord ( Untorn with ploughs ) all sorts of fruit afford . Content with nature's unenforced food , They gather wildings , straw'bries of the wood , Sour cornels , what upon the ...
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... happy in her new , true style , Weary of her cause she's to sad exile Exposed by her's unworthy of her land ; Entreats with tears Great Britain to command Her empire , and to make her know the time , Whose act and knowledge only makes ...
... happy in her new , true style , Weary of her cause she's to sad exile Exposed by her's unworthy of her land ; Entreats with tears Great Britain to command Her empire , and to make her know the time , Whose act and knowledge only makes ...
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... happy Druids " under his administration . Mr. Oakes being now , in the quaint language of the same ingenious gentleman , transplanted into the better world , he was succeeded by John Rogers , a graduate of the College of 1649 . He was ...
... happy Druids " under his administration . Mr. Oakes being now , in the quaint language of the same ingenious gentleman , transplanted into the better world , he was succeeded by John Rogers , a graduate of the College of 1649 . He was ...
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... happy . Sic sacra sævæ dona Proserpinæ Dimittit arbor , alter et emicat Ramus refulgens , ac avito Silva iterum renovatur auro . His second composition ( xxv . ) is an Epithala- mium in English heroics , descriptive of the embar- cation ...
... happy . Sic sacra sævæ dona Proserpinæ Dimittit arbor , alter et emicat Ramus refulgens , ac avito Silva iterum renovatur auro . His second composition ( xxv . ) is an Epithala- mium in English heroics , descriptive of the embar- cation ...
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... happy , none more , and desire to live no longer . " But is this thy desire , poor soul ? Then get faith , and so buy the whole , for they all go together : Nor think to have them upon any price , not having faith . I mean patience ...
... happy , none more , and desire to live no longer . " But is this thy desire , poor soul ? Then get faith , and so buy the whole , for they all go together : Nor think to have them upon any price , not having faith . I mean patience ...
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