Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings. From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; with Portraits, Autographs, and Other Illustrations, Volume 1C. Scribner, 1855 - American literature |
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... American cultivation , that in its early formative period it was so fortunate as to start with some of the finest products of the European mind . The divines of Cambridge , who brought with them to the New World the seed of literary ...
... American cultivation , that in its early formative period it was so fortunate as to start with some of the finest products of the European mind . The divines of Cambridge , who brought with them to the New World the seed of literary ...
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... American determination , in 1774 , to suspend all commerce with Britain ( except for the real necessaries of life ) , requested a poetical list of the articles the ladies might comprise under that head . From A Political Reverie , " Jan ...
... American determination , in 1774 , to suspend all commerce with Britain ( except for the real necessaries of life ) , requested a poetical list of the articles the ladies might comprise under that head . From A Political Reverie , " Jan ...
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... American Revolution upon the Human Body . Biographical Anecdotes of Anthony Benezet . Biographical Anecdotes of Benjamin Lay . Advice to Authors . Directions for Courtship . Lines occasioned by a visit to an old Indian burying- ground ...
... American Revolution upon the Human Body . Biographical Anecdotes of Anthony Benezet . Biographical Anecdotes of Benjamin Lay . Advice to Authors . Directions for Courtship . Lines occasioned by a visit to an old Indian burying- ground ...
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... American Hero . The Bombardment of Bristol , 441 . Bold Hawthorne , 442 . Free America , 443 . Poem on the present ... American Times , 461 . American Taxation . Yankee Doodle , 463 . WILLIAM CHARLES WELLS Exegi Monumentum , etc. Ode to ...
... American Hero . The Bombardment of Bristol , 441 . Bold Hawthorne , 442 . Free America , 443 . Poem on the present ... American Times , 461 . American Taxation . Yankee Doodle , 463 . WILLIAM CHARLES WELLS Exegi Monumentum , etc. Ode to ...
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... American Planta- tions soon became an occasional topic of allusion with Middle- ton , Dekker , and others . Robert ... American , so girt With feather'd cincture ; naked else and wid Among the trees on isles and woody shores . and ...
... American Planta- tions soon became an occasional topic of allusion with Middle- ton , Dekker , and others . Robert ... American , so girt With feather'd cincture ; naked else and wid Among the trees on isles and woody shores . and ...
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