The Main Lines of American LiteratureRaymond Wright Short, Wilbur Stewart Scott Holt, 1954 - 648 pages |
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Page 307
... tell you what happened without delay , Scaring the parson into fits , Frightening people out of their wits , - Have you ever heard of that , I say ? This poem is often regarded as a satire on the inexorable logic of Calvinism ...
... tell you what happened without delay , Scaring the parson into fits , Frightening people out of their wits , - Have you ever heard of that , I say ? This poem is often regarded as a satire on the inexorable logic of Calvinism ...
Page 378
... tell us but the name ! Though new this hour , out from the past it springs , Telling this summer morning of earth's prime ; ΙΟ And happy visions of the future brings That reach beyond , e'en to the verge of time ; Wreathing earth's ...
... tell us but the name ! Though new this hour , out from the past it springs , Telling this summer morning of earth's prime ; ΙΟ And happy visions of the future brings That reach beyond , e'en to the verge of time ; Wreathing earth's ...
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... tell me you are wicked and I believe them , for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys . And they tell me you are crooked and I answer : Yes , it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill ...
... tell me you are wicked and I believe them , for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys . And they tell me you are crooked and I answer : Yes , it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 9 |
WILLIAM BRADFORD 20 | 20 |
NATHANIEL WARD 330 | 30 |
Copyright | |
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