The American Common-place Book of Poetry: With Occasional Notes |
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... mind will be pleased that a volume of American poetry , so variously selected , presents so many pages imbued with the feelings of devotion . If all the extracts are not of sufficient excellence to excite vivid admiration , most of them ...
... mind will be pleased that a volume of American poetry , so variously selected , presents so many pages imbued with the feelings of devotion . If all the extracts are not of sufficient excellence to excite vivid admiration , most of them ...
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... mind , that would otherwise have fled from its approach . A voice from the grave and the other world may possibly here find hearers who would listen to it no where else . A devout and solemn reflection may steal , with the poetry of ...
... mind , that would otherwise have fled from its approach . A voice from the grave and the other world may possibly here find hearers who would listen to it no where else . A devout and solemn reflection may steal , with the poetry of ...
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... . Others might be named , whose poetry at once individualizes their genius in the mind ; but it is unnecessary . May the volume , thus selected , please and do good . TABLE OF CONTENTS . A Sacred Melody . Active Christian 6 PREFACE .
... . Others might be named , whose poetry at once individualizes their genius in the mind ; but it is unnecessary . May the volume , thus selected , please and do good . TABLE OF CONTENTS . A Sacred Melody . Active Christian 6 PREFACE .
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... Mind . • · Marco Bozzaris . • Weehawken . • · W. L. Garrison . 57 • • · F. G. Halleck . 58 F. G. Halleck . 60 On laying the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument . Pierpont . 61 Rousseau and Cowper . To the Dead . The Deep.
... Mind . • · Marco Bozzaris . • Weehawken . • · W. L. Garrison . 57 • • · F. G. Halleck . 58 F. G. Halleck . 60 On laying the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument . Pierpont . 61 Rousseau and Cowper . To the Dead . The Deep.
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... Mind of the Buccaneer , when agitated with Remorse for his Crime . • R. H. Dana . 145 The third and last Appearance of the Spectre Horse , & c . R. H. Dana . 147 God's first Temples . A Hymn . Scene from " Hadad . " • Extract from " The ...
... Mind of the Buccaneer , when agitated with Remorse for his Crime . • R. H. Dana . 145 The third and last Appearance of the Spectre Horse , & c . R. H. Dana . 147 God's first Temples . A Hymn . Scene from " Hadad . " • Extract from " The ...
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