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... writing an anonymous paper , I put it in at night under the door of the printing - house . It was found in the morning and communicated to his writing friends when they called in as usual . They read it , commented on it in my hearing ...
... writing an anonymous paper , I put it in at night under the door of the printing - house . It was found in the morning and communicated to his writing friends when they called in as usual . They read it , commented on it in my hearing ...
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... writer , Washington Irving was so naturally endowed that he seemed to drift into his career at the whim of ... writing always for pleasure , and to produce pleas- ure ; yet readers of all classes re- sponded to him in a country ...
... writer , Washington Irving was so naturally endowed that he seemed to drift into his career at the whim of ... writing always for pleasure , and to produce pleas- ure ; yet readers of all classes re- sponded to him in a country ...
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... writing , the style of Pope , of Johnson , of Gibbon , looks cold and pedantic . This writing is bloodwarm . Man is sur- prised to find that things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote . The near explains the far ...
... writing , the style of Pope , of Johnson , of Gibbon , looks cold and pedantic . This writing is bloodwarm . Man is sur- prised to find that things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote . The near explains the far ...
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The Literature of the Colonies and the Revolution | 3 |
WILLIAM BRADFORD 15901657 | 14 |
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