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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... turn thoughtful , sentimental , or humorous , as the occasion or theme required . To enumerate them here , would be to repeat the index of these volumes . In another light , this literature may be looked at in its relations to the ...
... turn thoughtful , sentimental , or humorous , as the occasion or theme required . To enumerate them here , would be to repeat the index of these volumes . In another light , this literature may be looked at in its relations to the ...
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... turn , Morell remained a year at Plymouth and then returned to England , where he soon after published in Latin hexameters and English hero- ics , the latter a little rough , his poem Nova Anglia , which he addressed to King Charles I ...
... turn , Morell remained a year at Plymouth and then returned to England , where he soon after published in Latin hexameters and English hero- ics , the latter a little rough , his poem Nova Anglia , which he addressed to King Charles I ...
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... turn'd into Metre were printed at Cambridge , in the year 1640 . ” * The Rev. Thomas Welde was the first minister of Roxbury , where he was the associate of Eliot , the Apostle to the Indians . He returned to England with Hugh Peters ...
... turn'd into Metre were printed at Cambridge , in the year 1640 . ” * The Rev. Thomas Welde was the first minister of Roxbury , where he was the associate of Eliot , the Apostle to the Indians . He returned to England with Hugh Peters ...
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... turn not aside . Remember thou a Cotton had , Which made the hearts of many glad ; What he thee taught bear thou in mind , It's hard another such to find . A Winthrop once in thee was known , Who unto thee was as a crown . Such ...
... turn not aside . Remember thou a Cotton had , Which made the hearts of many glad ; What he thee taught bear thou in mind , It's hard another such to find . A Winthrop once in thee was known , Who unto thee was as a crown . Such ...
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... turn our roses into hemlock and our fra- grant ointment into carrion ? Our own names , in a righteous way , ought to be more precious to us than thousands of gold or silver , how much infinitely more precious , the name of the most Holy ...
... turn our roses into hemlock and our fra- grant ointment into carrion ? Our own names , in a righteous way , ought to be more precious to us than thousands of gold or silver , how much infinitely more precious , the name of the most Holy ...
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