American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson: with Biographical Sketches and NotesHorace Elisha Scudder Houghton, Osgood, 1881 - 455 pages |
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... English themselves began to make settlements in the coun- try , and that year they laid the foundations of the town of Halifax . A jealousy soon sprang up be- tween the English and French settlers , which was deepened by the great ...
... English themselves began to make settlements in the coun- try , and that year they laid the foundations of the town of Halifax . A jealousy soon sprang up be- tween the English and French settlers , which was deepened by the great ...
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... English settlers . The Acadians were allied to the French by blood and by religion , but they claimed to have the rights of neutrals , and that these rights had been granted to them by previous English officers of the crown . The one ...
... English settlers . The Acadians were allied to the French by blood and by religion , but they claimed to have the rights of neutrals , and that these rights had been granted to them by previous English officers of the crown . The one ...
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... English governor a number of New England troops , brought thither for the capture of the forts lying in the debatable land about the head of the Bay of Fundy . These were under the command of Lieutenant - Colonel John Winslow , of ...
... English governor a number of New England troops , brought thither for the capture of the forts lying in the debatable land about the head of the Bay of Fundy . These were under the command of Lieutenant - Colonel John Winslow , of ...
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... English power seemed trembling before France , and that the colony at Halifax regarded the act as one of self - preservation . The authorities for a historical inquiry into this subject are best seen in a volume published by the ...
... English power seemed trembling before France , and that the colony at Halifax regarded the act as one of self - preservation . The authorities for a historical inquiry into this subject are best seen in a volume published by the ...
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... English dactylic hexameter . The hexam- eter is the measure used by Homer in the Iliad and the Odyssey , and by Virgil in the Eneid , but the difference between the English language and the Latin or Greek is so great , especially when ...
... English dactylic hexameter . The hexam- eter is the measure used by Homer in the Iliad and the Odyssey , and by Virgil in the Eneid , but the difference between the English language and the Latin or Greek is so great , especially when ...
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