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... present work aims to introduce the student to American literature itself , with such helps as will give him an ... presents the conditions under which the various authors wrote . The sketches of the representative writers give with con ...
... present work aims to introduce the student to American literature itself , with such helps as will give him an ... presents the conditions under which the various authors wrote . The sketches of the representative writers give with con ...
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... present revised and somewhat enlarged edition will be found , it is hoped , a distinct improvement over its predecessors . Greater prominence has been given to the writers of the South and the West . Besides the study lists already ...
... present revised and somewhat enlarged edition will be found , it is hoped , a distinct improvement over its predecessors . Greater prominence has been given to the writers of the South and the West . Besides the study lists already ...
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... Present Crisis The Vision of Sir Launfal JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER- Memories The Ship - Builders Barclay of Ury Maud Muller Tauler OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES- Old Ironsides The Last Leaf The Height of the Ridiculous The Chambered Nautilus ...
... Present Crisis The Vision of Sir Launfal JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER- Memories The Ship - Builders Barclay of Ury Maud Muller Tauler OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES- Old Ironsides The Last Leaf The Height of the Ridiculous The Chambered Nautilus ...
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... present the same fact in the language of Thomson : - " But yonder comes the powerful King of Day , Rejoicing in the east . The lessening cloud , The kindling azure , and the mountain's brow Illumed with fluid gold , his near approach ...
... present the same fact in the language of Thomson : - " But yonder comes the powerful King of Day , Rejoicing in the east . The lessening cloud , The kindling azure , and the mountain's brow Illumed with fluid gold , his near approach ...
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... present living our epic poem , -the greatest the world has seen . But after this period of ardent striving and conflict is past , our golden age will come ; and , having time to listen , we shall , perhaps , encourage some Homer or ...
... present living our epic poem , -the greatest the world has seen . But after this period of ardent striving and conflict is past , our golden age will come ; and , having time to listen , we shall , perhaps , encourage some Homer or ...
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