American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: EmersonHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 - 453 pages |
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... rest in the middle of the 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 ...
... rest in the middle of the 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 ...
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... rest , and twilight prevailed . Anon from the belfry Softly the Angelus sounded , and over the roofs of the village 39. The term kirtle was sometimes applied to the jacket only , A ful sometimes to the train or upper petticoat attached ...
... rest , and twilight prevailed . Anon from the belfry Softly the Angelus sounded , and over the roofs of the village 39. The term kirtle was sometimes applied to the jacket only , A ful sometimes to the train or upper petticoat attached ...
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... rest- less heart of the ocean Was for a moment consoled . harmony blended . All sounds were in Voices of children at play , the crowing of cocks in the farm - yards , 165 Whir of wings in the drowsy air , and the cooing of pigeons , All ...
... rest- less heart of the ocean Was for a moment consoled . harmony blended . All sounds were in Voices of children at play , the crowing of cocks in the farm - yards , 165 Whir of wings in the drowsy air , and the cooing of pigeons , All ...
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... rest and affec- tion and stillness . Day with its burden and heat had departed , and twilight descending Brought back the evening star to the sky , and the herds to the homestead . Pawing the ground they came , and resting their necks ...
... rest and affec- tion and stillness . Day with its burden and heat had departed , and twilight descending Brought back the evening star to the sky , and the herds to the homestead . Pawing the ground they came , and resting their necks ...
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... rest was its dil- igent shuttle , While the monotonous drone of the wheel , like the drone of a bagpipe , Followed the old man's song , and united the frag- ments together . 215 As in a church , when the chant of the choir at in ...
... rest was its dil- igent shuttle , While the monotonous drone of the wheel , like the drone of a bagpipe , Followed the old man's song , and united the frag- ments together . 215 As in a church , when the chant of the choir at in ...
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