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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... things had turned , he had only been able to bring from thence him- self and that composition , which needed more than a single denization . For it was doubly a stranger , being sprung from an ancient Roman stock , and bred up in the ...
... things had turned , he had only been able to bring from thence him- self and that composition , which needed more than a single denization . For it was doubly a stranger , being sprung from an ancient Roman stock , and bred up in the ...
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... things , in and out of his profes- sion . He was well versed in scientific studies , and his case may be added to the long list of natural philosophers who have reached extreme age . He retained his faculties to the last . It had always ...
... things , in and out of his profes- sion . He was well versed in scientific studies , and his case may be added to the long list of natural philosophers who have reached extreme age . He retained his faculties to the last . It had always ...
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... things will not With nether equipoise . The upper world shall rule , While stars will run their race : The nether world obey , While people keep their place . * To which we may add his PREFATORY LINES TO THE POEMS OF ANNE BRADSTREET ...
... things will not With nether equipoise . The upper world shall rule , While stars will run their race : The nether world obey , While people keep their place . * To which we may add his PREFATORY LINES TO THE POEMS OF ANNE BRADSTREET ...
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... things are big with jest : nothing that's plain But may be witty , if thou hast the vein . Here is something in ... thing ruinous , yea , as a kind of mortal - immortality . Diogenes , Democritus , and other philosophers , accounting ...
... things are big with jest : nothing that's plain But may be witty , if thou hast the vein . Here is something in ... thing ruinous , yea , as a kind of mortal - immortality . Diogenes , Democritus , and other philosophers , accounting ...
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... thing assign'd , By the Deities own mind , To cure the heart opprest with grief , And of good liquors is the chief . Then ... things that are in- different ; and from that time sought occasion against my honest Host of Ma - re Mount to ...
... thing assign'd , By the Deities own mind , To cure the heart opprest with grief , And of good liquors is the chief . Then ... things that are in- different ; and from that time sought occasion against my honest Host of Ma - re Mount to ...
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