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... POETS OF VIRGINIA , " ETC. REVISED EDITION POETS LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SIBLEY & COMPANY BOSTON CHICAGO MAY 29 1911 CIFT Pres O COPYRIGHT , 1897 , INTRODUCTION.
... POETS OF VIRGINIA , " ETC. REVISED EDITION POETS LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SIBLEY & COMPANY BOSTON CHICAGO MAY 29 1911 CIFT Pres O COPYRIGHT , 1897 , INTRODUCTION.
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... poet sang that the spirit of ancient Rome , immortal and undecayed , was spreading towards the New World . Bishop ... poets shall be sung . Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The first four acts already past , A fifth shall ...
... poet sang that the spirit of ancient Rome , immortal and undecayed , was spreading towards the New World . Bishop ... poets shall be sung . Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The first four acts already past , A fifth shall ...
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... poetic vigor : - " Vardanes . Heaven ! what a night is this ! Lysias . ' Tis filled with terror ; Some dread event beneath this horror lurks , Ordained by fate's irrevocable doom ; - Perhaps Arsaces ' fall ; and angry heaven Speaks it ...
... poetic vigor : - " Vardanes . Heaven ! what a night is this ! Lysias . ' Tis filled with terror ; Some dread event beneath this horror lurks , Ordained by fate's irrevocable doom ; - Perhaps Arsaces ' fall ; and angry heaven Speaks it ...
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... poet , editor , and political writer , born in New York and educated at the College of New Jersey . Edited several papers , among which were the N. Y. Daily Advertiser and the National Gazette of Philadelphia . He published several ...
... poet , editor , and political writer , born in New York and educated at the College of New Jersey . Edited several papers , among which were the N. Y. Daily Advertiser and the National Gazette of Philadelphia . He published several ...
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... poetic impulses , and scarcely out of school , he planned three epic poems connected with American history . Co- lumbus , Cortez , and Pizarro appealed to him as epic heroes . He first gave himself to the practice of law ; but like not ...
... poetic impulses , and scarcely out of school , he planned three epic poems connected with American history . Co- lumbus , Cortez , and Pizarro appealed to him as epic heroes . He first gave himself to the practice of law ; but like not ...
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