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... early American poems . Carlos Wilcox is compared to Cowper . Of the better poets of the second rank , he considers Sprague , Brainard , and Steel , the most esteemed . Percival is spoken of in high terms as endowed with wonderful ...
... early American poems . Carlos Wilcox is compared to Cowper . Of the better poets of the second rank , he considers Sprague , Brainard , and Steel , the most esteemed . Percival is spoken of in high terms as endowed with wonderful ...
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... early friends , Fanny Gray is indeed a " beautiful divertise- ment " for children . It is a pictorial biography of our little heroine , accompanied by verses of a juvenile character . Miss Fanny , by a slight mechanical arrangement ...
... early friends , Fanny Gray is indeed a " beautiful divertise- ment " for children . It is a pictorial biography of our little heroine , accompanied by verses of a juvenile character . Miss Fanny , by a slight mechanical arrangement ...
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... early as 1671. An ac- count of it , with extracts , is inserted in Brydges ' " Restituta , " London , 1815 , 8vo , Vol . iii . pp . 89- 106 , and is well worth reading . " It is usually said by grammarians , that the use of lan- guage ...
... early as 1671. An ac- count of it , with extracts , is inserted in Brydges ' " Restituta , " London , 1815 , 8vo , Vol . iii . pp . 89- 106 , and is well worth reading . " It is usually said by grammarians , that the use of lan- guage ...
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... early abandoned the profession citement incident to his position , made him access- of Law to engage in literary pursuits . He con - ible to the disease which terminated his existence . tributed some articles to Blackwood's Magazine ...
... early abandoned the profession citement incident to his position , made him access- of Law to engage in literary pursuits . He con - ible to the disease which terminated his existence . tributed some articles to Blackwood's Magazine ...
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... early day , " Lucy Boston , or Woman's Rights and Spiritualism , " illustrating the follies and delu- sions of the ... Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nine - able at present to furnish it , including only the teenth Century ...
... early day , " Lucy Boston , or Woman's Rights and Spiritualism , " illustrating the follies and delu- sions of the ... Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nine - able at present to furnish it , including only the teenth Century ...
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