American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: EmersonHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 - 453 pages |
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... lines , To the River Charles , which may be compared with his recent Three Friends of Mine , IV . , V .; in A Gleam of Sun- shine , To a Child , The Day is Done , The Fire of Driftwood , Resignation , The Open Window , The Ladder of St ...
... lines , To the River Charles , which may be compared with his recent Three Friends of Mine , IV . , V .; in A Gleam of Sun- shine , To a Child , The Day is Done , The Fire of Driftwood , Resignation , The Open Window , The Ladder of St ...
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... The fall of the verse at the end of the line and the sharp recovery at the beginning of the next will be snares to the reader , who must beware of a jerking style of delivery . The voice naturally seeks EVANGELINE . 11.
... The fall of the verse at the end of the line and the sharp recovery at the beginning of the next will be snares to the reader , who must beware of a jerking style of delivery . The voice naturally seeks EVANGELINE . 11.
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... line , and this rest , or casural pause , should be carefully regarded ; a little practice will enable one to acquire that habit of reading the hexameter , which we may liken , roughly , to the climbing of a hill , resting a moment on ...
... line , and this rest , or casural pause , should be carefully regarded ; a little practice will enable one to acquire that habit of reading the hexameter , which we may liken , roughly , to the climbing of a hill , resting a moment on ...
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... line of Goldsmith's The Traveller . Grand - Pré will be found on the map as part of the township of Horton . 24. The people of Acadia are mainly the descendants of the colonists who were brought out to La Have and Port Royal by Isaac de ...
... line of Goldsmith's The Traveller . Grand - Pré will be found on the map as part of the township of Horton . 24. The people of Acadia are mainly the descendants of the colonists who were brought out to La Have and Port Royal by Isaac de ...
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... of antique , where it re- mains in the form antic , which once had the same general mean- ing . 99. Odorous . The accent here , as well as in line 403 , is upon 100 There too the dove - cot stood , with EVANGELINE . 19.
... of antique , where it re- mains in the form antic , which once had the same general mean- ing . 99. Odorous . The accent here , as well as in line 403 , is upon 100 There too the dove - cot stood , with EVANGELINE . 19.
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