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Dr. Bryant was the last of his family to practise the healing art ; for Nature , wiser than he , early determined the future course of Master William Cullen Bryant . He was not to be a doctor , but a poet .
Dr. Bryant was the last of his family to practise the healing art ; for Nature , wiser than he , early determined the future course of Master William Cullen Bryant . He was not to be a doctor , but a poet .
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It was natural , therefore , that he should ofter his boy to the strait - laced Muses of Queen Anne's time ; that the precocious boy should lisp in heroic couplets , and that he should endeavor to be satirical .
It was natural , therefore , that he should ofter his boy to the strait - laced Muses of Queen Anne's time ; that the precocious boy should lisp in heroic couplets , and that he should endeavor to be satirical .
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These productions are undeniably clever , but they are not characteristic of their writer , nor of the nature which surrounded his birthplace , with which he was familiar , and of which he was a close observer , as his poetry was soon ...
These productions are undeniably clever , but they are not characteristic of their writer , nor of the nature which surrounded his birthplace , with which he was familiar , and of which he was a close observer , as his poetry was soon ...
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Blackstone bade his Muse a long adieu before he turned to wrangling courts and stubborn law ; and our young lawyer intended to do the same ( for poetry was starvation in America seventy years ago ) , but habit and nature were too strong ...
Blackstone bade his Muse a long adieu before he turned to wrangling courts and stubborn law ; and our young lawyer intended to do the same ( for poetry was starvation in America seventy years ago ) , but habit and nature were too strong ...
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“ Green River , " for example , is a momentary revealment of his shy temperament and his daily pursuits . Its glimpses of nature are charming , and his wish to be beside its waters is the most natural one in the world .
“ Green River , " for example , is a momentary revealment of his shy temperament and his daily pursuits . Its glimpses of nature are charming , and his wish to be beside its waters is the most natural one in the world .
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