American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: EmersonHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 - 453 pages |
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... natural acquaintance with literature . This does not profess to be a representative volume of American poetry , nor , in a comprehensive way , of the poets whose works are included in it ; but , be- cause the poems are themselves worthy ...
... natural acquaintance with literature . This does not profess to be a representative volume of American poetry , nor , in a comprehensive way , of the poets whose works are included in it ; but , be- cause the poems are themselves worthy ...
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... Charles Brockden Brown made his novel of Arthur Mervyn turn largely apon the incidents of the plague , which drove Brown away from home for a time . So death flooded life , and , o'erflowing its natural EVANGELINE . 95.
... Charles Brockden Brown made his novel of Arthur Mervyn turn largely apon the incidents of the plague , which drove Brown away from home for a time . So death flooded life , and , o'erflowing its natural EVANGELINE . 95.
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... natural margin , Spread to a brackish lake , the silver stream of existence . 1305 Wealth had no power to bribe , nor beauty to charm , the oppressor ; But all perished alike beneath the scourge of his anger ; - Only , alas ! the poor ...
... natural margin , Spread to a brackish lake , the silver stream of existence . 1305 Wealth had no power to bribe , nor beauty to charm , the oppressor ; But all perished alike beneath the scourge of his anger ; - Only , alas ! the poor ...
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... nature ; Though he was rough , he was kindly ; she knew how during the winter He had attended the sick , with a hand as gentle as woman's ; 321. " There are at this time in England two ancient fami- lies of the name , one of Standish ...
... nature ; Though he was rough , he was kindly ; she knew how during the winter He had attended the sick , with a hand as gentle as woman's ; 321. " There are at this time in England two ancient fami- lies of the name , one of Standish ...
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... nature within him , - Pride , and the sense of his wrong , and the burn- ing fire of the insult . So he beheld his friend departing in anger , but spake not , 545 Saw him go forth to danger , perhaps to .40 LONGFELLOW .
... nature within him , - Pride , and the sense of his wrong , and the burn- ing fire of the insult . So he beheld his friend departing in anger , but spake not , 545 Saw him go forth to danger , perhaps to .40 LONGFELLOW .
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