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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... taken by Mr. M. B. Brady of New York , -a sufficient guarantee of this stage of the work . The drawings from them have been made by Mr. W. Momberger of this city . The engravings are by Mr. W. Roberts . For several of the vignettes we ...
... taken by Mr. M. B. Brady of New York , -a sufficient guarantee of this stage of the work . The drawings from them have been made by Mr. W. Momberger of this city . The engravings are by Mr. W. Roberts . For several of the vignettes we ...
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... taken by the valiant Englishmen . HECTOR ST . JOHN CREVECÅ’UR 178 American Farmers ' Pleasures . Passages from a Sermon on Death . Song and Instinct . The Butterfly , a Type of the Resurrection . The Humming Bird . Passage from " The ...
... taken by the valiant Englishmen . HECTOR ST . JOHN CREVECÅ’UR 178 American Farmers ' Pleasures . Passages from a Sermon on Death . Song and Instinct . The Butterfly , a Type of the Resurrection . The Humming Bird . Passage from " The ...
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... taken up with the animal inhabitants of the land and their conquerors , the native In- dians . The opening address to New England is really grand . We have marked one line by italics , for its stirring tone , in the English portion ...
... taken up with the animal inhabitants of the land and their conquerors , the native In- dians . The opening address to New England is really grand . We have marked one line by italics , for its stirring tone , in the English portion ...
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... taken prisoner and confined in France . On his release he endeavored to obtain further employment in American adven- ture , but without success . He died in London in 1631 , in his fifty - second year . In " the true Travels ...
... taken prisoner and confined in France . On his release he endeavored to obtain further employment in American adven- ture , but without success . He died in London in 1631 , in his fifty - second year . In " the true Travels ...
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... taken to line his pastry - a fate which the poet Herrick not long before had deprecated in hurrying effusions of a very dif- ferent character into print , in his " Lines to his Book : " - Lest rapt from hence , I see thee lie Torn for ...
... taken to line his pastry - a fate which the poet Herrick not long before had deprecated in hurrying effusions of a very dif- ferent character into print , in his " Lines to his Book : " - Lest rapt from hence , I see thee lie Torn for ...
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