The North American Review, Volume 66Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1848 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... feelings ; singularly felicitous in the selection of a word clear and definite in its promises , and which falls upon the ear like one of those mysterious strains which you sometimes hear , amid the dewy stillness of evening , from the ...
... feelings ; singularly felicitous in the selection of a word clear and definite in its promises , and which falls upon the ear like one of those mysterious strains which you sometimes hear , amid the dewy stillness of evening , from the ...
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... feeling ? Tuscany , with its mountain valleys , and its gentle stream , and its thriving seaport , looks as if nature had marked it out to stand by it- self . And Rome in the midst of her solitary plain , and Naples surrounded by her ...
... feeling ? Tuscany , with its mountain valleys , and its gentle stream , and its thriving seaport , looks as if nature had marked it out to stand by it- self . And Rome in the midst of her solitary plain , and Naples surrounded by her ...
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... feeling which inspired them was a truly national abhorrence of foreign dominion , if in the aggressions of Astolfo and Desiderius they were chiefly struck with their country's perils , and those which , in their own per- sons , menaced ...
... feeling which inspired them was a truly national abhorrence of foreign dominion , if in the aggressions of Astolfo and Desiderius they were chiefly struck with their country's perils , and those which , in their own per- sons , menaced ...
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... feelings of mankind , while their opponents have but one . Yet it was a glorious circumstance for Italy , that during this period of trial , so many of her brightest names in litera- ture and in science were found in the list of the ...
... feelings of mankind , while their opponents have but one . Yet it was a glorious circumstance for Italy , that during this period of trial , so many of her brightest names in litera- ture and in science were found in the list of the ...
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... feeling , a gradual wearing down of prejudices . For as the inhabitants of different districts and men of different pursuits come to see more of one another , they come to judge one another more justly , and see things as they really ...
... feeling , a gradual wearing down of prejudices . For as the inhabitants of different districts and men of different pursuits come to see more of one another , they come to judge one another more justly , and see things as they really ...
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