Chronologies of the Life and Writings of William Cullen Bryant: With a Bibliography of His Works in Prose and Verse |
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... wiser than he , early determined the future course of Master William Cullen Bryant . He was not to be a doctor , but a poet . A poet , that is , if he lived to be anything ; for the chances were against his living at all .
... wiser than he , early determined the future course of Master William Cullen Bryant . He was not to be a doctor , but a poet . A poet , that is , if he lived to be anything ; for the chances were against his living at all .
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... they lived and died prematurely . Mr. Bryant's success as a metropolitan man of letters was not brilliant so far ; but there were other walks than those of pure literature open to him , as to others , and into one of the most ...
... they lived and died prematurely . Mr. Bryant's success as a metropolitan man of letters was not brilliant so far ; but there were other walks than those of pure literature open to him , as to others , and into one of the most ...
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The power of suggestion and of rapid generalization , which was the key - note of “ The Ages , ” lived anew in every line of “ The Prairies , ” in which a series of poems present themselves to the imagination as a series of pictures in ...
The power of suggestion and of rapid generalization , which was the key - note of “ The Ages , ” lived anew in every line of “ The Prairies , ” in which a series of poems present themselves to the imagination as a series of pictures in ...
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In regard to the exact site of the house in which he was born , Mr. Bryant says , in a statement printed in Parke Godwin's biography of him : “ My father and mother then lived in a house , which stands no longer , near the center of the ...
In regard to the exact site of the house in which he was born , Mr. Bryant says , in a statement printed in Parke Godwin's biography of him : “ My father and mother then lived in a house , which stands no longer , near the center of the ...
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... are yet seen the hollow of an old cellar and the foundation stones of a house where there lived a neighbor . From my new abode , before I had completed my fourth year , I was sent to the district school . ” 1799 .
... are yet seen the hollow of an old cellar and the foundation stones of a house where there lived a neighbor . From my new abode , before I had completed my fourth year , I was sent to the district school . ” 1799 .
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