American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 51Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis 1858 - American periodicals |
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... nature , of undaunted courage , but so garrulous that I never breathed to him my plans until they were ready for fulfillment . Of myself , all the reader need know is , that I had been travelling in Egypt and Asia ; that I spoke the ...
... nature , of undaunted courage , but so garrulous that I never breathed to him my plans until they were ready for fulfillment . Of myself , all the reader need know is , that I had been travelling in Egypt and Asia ; that I spoke the ...
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... Nature's wild dominion it was one of the homes of her forest children , whom we had travelled so far to meet in council . On a little hill - side , sloping westward , with a thin grove of pine be- hind , and a wide stretch of hazel ...
... Nature's wild dominion it was one of the homes of her forest children , whom we had travelled so far to meet in council . On a little hill - side , sloping westward , with a thin grove of pine be- hind , and a wide stretch of hazel ...
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... nature , and possessed all the re- serve and stiffness so characteristic of our cousin , John Bull ; and our first intercourse seemed unlikely to result in any thing like intimacy . His bluff , phlegmatic ways were little assimilated to ...
... nature , and possessed all the re- serve and stiffness so characteristic of our cousin , John Bull ; and our first intercourse seemed unlikely to result in any thing like intimacy . His bluff , phlegmatic ways were little assimilated to ...
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... nature , brute , and man Again resumes . The green - haired Nereids pour their foaming urn In yonder willow - girdled chasm , where The noisy wild bee blows his breezy horn And leafy murmurs lull the sleepy air : The idle waves ensue ...
... nature , brute , and man Again resumes . The green - haired Nereids pour their foaming urn In yonder willow - girdled chasm , where The noisy wild bee blows his breezy horn And leafy murmurs lull the sleepy air : The idle waves ensue ...
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... nature - but we must digress thus early from our subject , after the fashion of the veritable history of Tristram Shandy , to defend this expression , lest some one of our down- right Yankee brethren , with his prejudices refreshed by a ...
... nature - but we must digress thus early from our subject , after the fashion of the veritable history of Tristram Shandy , to defend this expression , lest some one of our down- right Yankee brethren , with his prejudices refreshed by a ...
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