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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... collection of authors who are here included under it . The study and practice of criticism may be pursued elsewhere : here , as a matter of history , we seek to know in general under what forms and to what extent literature has been ...
... collection of authors who are here included under it . The study and practice of criticism may be pursued elsewhere : here , as a matter of history , we seek to know in general under what forms and to what extent literature has been ...
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... collection of materials for history . Harvard College , William and Mary , Yale , the College of New Jersey , King's College New York , the University of Pennsylvania , the College of Rhode Island , and Dartmouth College , were ...
... collection of materials for history . Harvard College , William and Mary , Yale , the College of New Jersey , King's College New York , the University of Pennsylvania , the College of Rhode Island , and Dartmouth College , were ...
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... collections of American verse , in the last century , by Elihu H. Smith and Mathew Carey , to the excellent labors at the present day of Kettell , Everest , Griswold , and others . To their works we may appropriately add the numerous ...
... collections of American verse , in the last century , by Elihu H. Smith and Mathew Carey , to the excellent labors at the present day of Kettell , Everest , Griswold , and others . To their works we may appropriately add the numerous ...
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... collection of matters be not complete , yet he supposes it may be more complete than any one else hath made ; and now he hath done , he hath not pulled up the ladder after him : others may go on as they please with a completer composure ...
... collection of matters be not complete , yet he supposes it may be more complete than any one else hath made ; and now he hath done , he hath not pulled up the ladder after him : others may go on as they please with a completer composure ...
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... collection of De Bry in the same year , and afterwards in English in Hakluyt . ALEXANDER WHITAKER , a son of the Rev. Dr. William Whitaker , Master of St. John's College , Cambridge , came to Virginia while a young man , and was one of ...
... collection of De Bry in the same year , and afterwards in English in Hakluyt . ALEXANDER WHITAKER , a son of the Rev. Dr. William Whitaker , Master of St. John's College , Cambridge , came to Virginia while a young man , and was one of ...
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