Cyclopædia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Ciritcal Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings. From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; with Portraits, Autographs, and Other IllustrationsC. Scribner, 1856 - American literature |
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... lives of persons connected with literature . There are numerous points of this kind , not merely relating to authorship , but extending into the spheres of social and political life , which are to be sought for in literary biography ...
... lives of persons connected with literature . There are numerous points of this kind , not merely relating to authorship , but extending into the spheres of social and political life , which are to be sought for in literary biography ...
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... Live spearing - shark , the catfish , and sea - dog ; The scale - fenc'd sturgeon , wry - mouthed halibut , The flouncing salmon , codfish , greedigut ; Cole , haddick , hake , the thornback , and the scate , Whose slimy outside makes ...
... Live spearing - shark , the catfish , and sea - dog ; The scale - fenc'd sturgeon , wry - mouthed halibut , The flouncing salmon , codfish , greedigut ; Cole , haddick , hake , the thornback , and the scate , Whose slimy outside makes ...
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... live to make him hatchets , and her bells , beads , and copper : for they thought him as well of all occupa- tions ... lives in fear and dread : And having life suspected , doth It still suspected lead . In the same year he published a ...
... live to make him hatchets , and her bells , beads , and copper : for they thought him as well of all occupa- tions ... lives in fear and dread : And having life suspected , doth It still suspected lead . In the same year he published a ...
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... live , as one royal monarch ascends the skies and another the throne . As this production really possesses considerable merit , as it brings together the names of several writers worthy of comme- moration , and as the work is altogether ...
... live , as one royal monarch ascends the skies and another the throne . As this production really possesses considerable merit , as it brings together the names of several writers worthy of comme- moration , and as the work is altogether ...
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... live by their long bills . " So he puns on through over fifty pages of typographical eccentricities in small quarto . He was a contemporary of Dr. Thomas Fuller , the admirable wit and Church historian , who we have seen appreciated him ...
... live by their long bills . " So he puns on through over fifty pages of typographical eccentricities in small quarto . He was a contemporary of Dr. Thomas Fuller , the admirable wit and Church historian , who we have seen appreciated him ...
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