The Cambridge History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. IIWilliam Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921 |
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... called , teasing his imagination with hints of the unexplored reaches of the river . When in 1847 his father died in poverty brightened by visions of wealth from the sale of his land in Tennessee , the son was glad to drop his lessons ...
... called , teasing his imagination with hints of the unexplored reaches of the river . When in 1847 his father died in poverty brightened by visions of wealth from the sale of his land in Tennessee , the son was glad to drop his lessons ...
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... called upon his first king , explored the crater of Kilauea , struck up a friendship with the American ministers to China and Japan , and made a great " scoop " by interviewing a group of shipwrecked sailors in the hospital at Honolulu ...
... called upon his first king , explored the crater of Kilauea , struck up a friendship with the American ministers to China and Japan , and made a great " scoop " by interviewing a group of shipwrecked sailors in the hospital at Honolulu ...
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... called him across the sea and robed him in scarlet and made him Doctor of Literature , amid , as he noted , " a very satisfactory hurrah " from the audience . On his return from a trip to the Bermudas he died 21 April , 1910 . Mark ...
... called him across the sea and robed him in scarlet and made him Doctor of Literature , amid , as he noted , " a very satisfactory hurrah " from the audience . On his return from a trip to the Bermudas he died 21 April , 1910 . Mark ...
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... and imaginative apprehension . The latter part of the book , which might have been called " The Mississippi Revisited , " is the journalistic record of an excursion made with a stenographer in 1882 ; it contains interesting.
... and imaginative apprehension . The latter part of the book , which might have been called " The Mississippi Revisited , " is the journalistic record of an excursion made with a stenographer in 1882 ; it contains interesting.
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... called backward peoples excites his indignation , but history and travel show him its universality and quiet his sensibilities to a state of tolerant contempt for all unregenerate mankind : " Christian govern- ments are as frank to ...
... called backward peoples excites his indignation , but history and travel show him its universality and quiet his sensibilities to a state of tolerant contempt for all unregenerate mankind : " Christian govern- ments are as frank to ...
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