Cyclopædia 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. In two volumes, Volume 1W. Rutter, 1875 - American literature |
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... wrote the first historical records , who furnished the supplies for the first presses , were Englishmen by birth , as they and their successors were by political constitution , down to the comparatively recent period of the Revolution ...
... wrote the first historical records , who furnished the supplies for the first presses , were Englishmen by birth , as they and their successors were by political constitution , down to the comparatively recent period of the Revolution ...
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... wrote in welcoming his beloved England , and in which he does not forget the perils of the American wilderness in That new - found - out - world , where sober night Takes from the Antipodes her silent flight , and where he had been ...
... wrote in welcoming his beloved England , and in which he does not forget the perils of the American wilderness in That new - found - out - world , where sober night Takes from the Antipodes her silent flight , and where he had been ...
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... wrote the famous typographi- cal epitaph on himself : A living , breathing Bible ; tables where Both covenants , at large , engraven were ; Gospel and law , in's heart , had each its column ; His head an index to the sacred volume ; His ...
... wrote the famous typographi- cal epitaph on himself : A living , breathing Bible ; tables where Both covenants , at large , engraven were ; Gospel and law , in's heart , had each its column ; His head an index to the sacred volume ; His ...
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... wrote an elegy on him , in which he says quaintly : For rich array cared not a fig , And wore Elisha's periwig . At ninety - three had comely face , Adorned with majesty and grace . Before he went among the dead , He children's ...
... wrote an elegy on him , in which he says quaintly : For rich array cared not a fig , And wore Elisha's periwig . At ninety - three had comely face , Adorned with majesty and grace . Before he went among the dead , He children's ...
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... wrote a tract " against persecution in cause of Conscience , " which he penned on paper introduced into his prison as the stoppers to a bottle of milk , the fluid of which served him for ink . Williams thus introduces it in the ...
... wrote a tract " against persecution in cause of Conscience , " which he penned on paper introduced into his prison as the stoppers to a bottle of milk , the fluid of which served him for ink . Williams thus introduces it in the ...
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