The American Common-place Book of Poetry: With Occasional Notes |
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... nature sweet and chaste in their moral influence , as well as refined in their intellectual and poetical character , is not enough appreciated . None can tell how much good a volume like this may accomplish , if un - editor keeps such a ...
... nature sweet and chaste in their moral influence , as well as refined in their intellectual and poetical character , is not enough appreciated . None can tell how much good a volume like this may accomplish , if un - editor keeps such a ...
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... nature with a simpler and more affecting beauty than Bryant . None could draw an American landscape in truer colors , and throw more endearingly around it the charm of moral and devout reflection , than Wilcox . In the bold delineation ...
... nature with a simpler and more affecting beauty than Bryant . None could draw an American landscape in truer colors , and throw more endearingly around it the charm of moral and devout reflection , than Wilcox . In the bold delineation ...
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... Nature contrasted with the Changes in Life . Dana . 55 " And fare thee well , my own green , quiet Vale . " Dana . 56 Sonnet . The Free Mind . • · Marco Bozzaris . • Weehawken . • · W. L. Garrison . 57 • • · F. G. Halleck . 58 F. G. ...
... Nature contrasted with the Changes in Life . Dana . 55 " And fare thee well , my own green , quiet Vale . " Dana . 56 Sonnet . The Free Mind . • · Marco Bozzaris . • Weehawken . • · W. L. Garrison . 57 • • · F. G. Halleck . 58 F. G. ...
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... Nature . The Garden of Gethsemane . Trust in God . Heaven . · Geehale . An Indian Lament . • Scene from " Percy's Masque . " To S **** , weeping . Autumn . The Bucket . The Snow - Flake . " I am the Way , and the Truth , and the Life ...
... Nature . The Garden of Gethsemane . Trust in God . Heaven . · Geehale . An Indian Lament . • Scene from " Percy's Masque . " To S **** , weeping . Autumn . The Bucket . The Snow - Flake . " I am the Way , and the Truth , and the Life ...
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... nature lit , If not protected , pruned , and fed with care , Soon dies , or runs to waste with fitful glare ; And learning is a plant that spreads and towers Slow as Columbia's aloe , proudly rare , That , ' mid gay thousands , with the ...
... nature lit , If not protected , pruned , and fed with care , Soon dies , or runs to waste with fitful glare ; And learning is a plant that spreads and towers Slow as Columbia's aloe , proudly rare , That , ' mid gay thousands , with the ...
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