The North American Review, Volume 66Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... Bart . , late of the Admiralty ; including Reflections , Observations , and Reminiscences at Home and Abroad , from Early Life to Advanced Age . VI . BROWNING's PLAYS AND POEMS 357 1. Paracelsus , a Poem . By Robert BROWNING .
... Bart . , late of the Admiralty ; including Reflections , Observations , and Reminiscences at Home and Abroad , from Early Life to Advanced Age . VI . BROWNING's PLAYS AND POEMS 357 1. Paracelsus , a Poem . By Robert BROWNING .
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X. LOWELL'S POEMS 458 Poems . By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL . Second Series . XI . LEICHHARDT'S EXPEDITION IN AUSTRALIA 482 1. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia , from Moreton Bay to Port Essington , a Distance of upwards of 3000 ...
X. LOWELL'S POEMS 458 Poems . By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL . Second Series . XI . LEICHHARDT'S EXPEDITION IN AUSTRALIA 482 1. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia , from Moreton Bay to Port Essington , a Distance of upwards of 3000 ...
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At Harrow he had formed a friendship with a vivacious school - fellow , named Halhed , who was afterwards a judge in India , and in connection with him had translated into English verse some of the poems of Theocritus .
At Harrow he had formed a friendship with a vivacious school - fellow , named Halhed , who was afterwards a judge in India , and in connection with him had translated into English verse some of the poems of Theocritus .
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In 1771 , he published a poem called Clio's Protest , or the Picture Varnished , in which the principal beauties of Bath are celebrated in some four hundred rather loose - jointed octosyllabic lines .
In 1771 , he published a poem called Clio's Protest , or the Picture Varnished , in which the principal beauties of Bath are celebrated in some four hundred rather loose - jointed octosyllabic lines .
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The poem whose title we have placed at the head of this article has reawakened an interest in some of these terrible passages of our colonial history . The particular event on which the poem is founded attracts but little the notice of ...
The poem whose title we have placed at the head of this article has reawakened an interest in some of these terrible passages of our colonial history . The particular event on which the poem is founded attracts but little the notice of ...
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Page 443 - THE CHANGELING I HAD a little daughter, And she was given to me To lead me gently backward To the Heavenly Father's knee, That I, by the force of nature, Might in some dim wise divine The depth of his infinite patience To this wayward soul of mine.
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| Title | The North American Review, Volume 66 Volumes 181-183 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 Library of American civilization |
| Editors | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge |
| Publisher | O. Everett, 1848 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Sep 2005 |
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