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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... give both . NOVA ANGLIA . Hactenus ignotam populis ego carmine primus , Te Nova , de veteri cui contigit Anglia nomen , Aggredior trepidus pingui celebrare Minerva . Per mihi numen opem , cupienti singula plectro Pondere veridico , quæ ...
... give both . NOVA ANGLIA . Hactenus ignotam populis ego carmine primus , Te Nova , de veteri cui contigit Anglia nomen , Aggredior trepidus pingui celebrare Minerva . Per mihi numen opem , cupienti singula plectro Pondere veridico , quæ ...
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... give us a very good rhyme . And you of Dorchester your verses lengthen , And with the text's own word you will them strengthen . The design was to obtain a closer adherence to the sense than the versions of Ainsworth , which they ...
... give us a very good rhyme . And you of Dorchester your verses lengthen , And with the text's own word you will them strengthen . The design was to obtain a closer adherence to the sense than the versions of Ainsworth , which they ...
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... give . AMEN . VERSES TO HER SON . Ah , me ! what do I mean To take my pen in hand ? More meet it were for me to rest , And silent still to stand . For pleasure take I none In any worldly thing , But evermore methinks I hear My fatal ...
... give . AMEN . VERSES TO HER SON . Ah , me ! what do I mean To take my pen in hand ? More meet it were for me to rest , And silent still to stand . For pleasure take I none In any worldly thing , But evermore methinks I hear My fatal ...
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... Give to the Melancholy man , A cup or two of ' t now and than , This physic will soon revive his blood , And make him be of a merrier mood . Then drink , & c . Io to Hymen , & c . Give to the nymph that's free from scorn , No Irish ...
... Give to the Melancholy man , A cup or two of ' t now and than , This physic will soon revive his blood , And make him be of a merrier mood . Then drink , & c . Io to Hymen , & c . Give to the nymph that's free from scorn , No Irish ...
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... give them a slip instead of tester . Six persons of the conspiracy were set to watch him at Wessaguscus , but he kept waking , and in the dead of night ( one lying on the bed for further surety ) up gets mine host and got to the second ...
... give them a slip instead of tester . Six persons of the conspiracy were set to watch him at Wessaguscus , but he kept waking , and in the dead of night ( one lying on the bed for further surety ) up gets mine host and got to the second ...
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