American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: EmersonHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 - 453 pages |
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... side . The charm in reading Evangeline aloud , after a clear understanding of the sense , which is the es- sential in all good reading , is found in this gentle labor of the former half of the line , and gentle ac- celeration of the ...
... side . The charm in reading Evangeline aloud , after a clear understanding of the sense , which is the es- sential in all good reading , is found in this gentle labor of the former half of the line , and gentle ac- celeration of the ...
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... . When she had passed , it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music . Firmly builded with rafters of oak , the house of the farmer Stood on the side of a hill commanding the sea and a shady OF M 1 T ! 18 LONGFELLOW .
... . When she had passed , it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music . Firmly builded with rafters of oak , the house of the farmer Stood on the side of a hill commanding the sea and a shady OF M 1 T ! 18 LONGFELLOW .
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... side to side with a lordly air , and superbly Waving his bushy tail , and urging forward the stragglers ; Regent of flocks was he when the shepherd slept ; their protector , 185 When from the forest at night , through the starry silence ...
... side to side with a lordly air , and superbly Waving his bushy tail , and urging forward the stragglers ; Regent of flocks was he when the shepherd slept ; their protector , 185 When from the forest at night , through the starry silence ...
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... side was the gentle Evange- line seated , Spinning flax for the loom that stood in the cor- ner behind her . Silent awhile were its treadles , at rest was its dil- igent shuttle , While the monotonous drone of the wheel , like the drone ...
... side was the gentle Evange- line seated , Spinning flax for the loom that stood in the cor- ner behind her . Silent awhile were its treadles , at rest was its dil- igent shuttle , While the monotonous drone of the wheel , like the drone ...
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... side , which is always empty without thee ; 225 Take from the shelf overhead thy pipe and the box of tobacco ; Never so much thyself art thou as when , through the curling Smoke of the pipe or the forge , thy friendly and jovial face ...
... side , which is always empty without thee ; 225 Take from the shelf overhead thy pipe and the box of tobacco ; Never so much thyself art thou as when , through the curling Smoke of the pipe or the forge , thy friendly and jovial face ...
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