The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: PoemsPrinted at the Riverside Press, 1896 |
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... present that emi- nent man with a copy of the " Biglow Papers . " The next morning he received the following note , which he has kindly furnished us for publication . We prefer to print it verbatim , knowing that our readers will ...
... present that emi- nent man with a copy of the " Biglow Papers . " The next morning he received the following note , which he has kindly furnished us for publication . We prefer to print it verbatim , knowing that our readers will ...
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... present volume . In this place I will barely remark , that I have sometimes noticed in the unlan- guaged prattlings of infants a fondness for alliteration , asso- nance , and even rhyme , in which natural predisposition we may trace the ...
... present volume . In this place I will barely remark , that I have sometimes noticed in the unlan- guaged prattlings of infants a fondness for alliteration , asso- nance , and even rhyme , in which natural predisposition we may trace the ...
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... present instance , has only made use of a license assumed by all the historians of antiquity , who put into the mouths of various characters such words as - one to seem to them most fitting to the THE BIGLOW PAPERS 75 REMARKS OF ...
... present instance , has only made use of a license assumed by all the historians of antiquity , who put into the mouths of various characters such words as - one to seem to them most fitting to the THE BIGLOW PAPERS 75 REMARKS OF ...
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... present one which boils and eddies all around him at the caucus , the ratification meeting , and the polls ! Who taught him to exhort men to prepare for eternity , as for some fu- ture era of which the present forms no integral part ...
... present one which boils and eddies all around him at the caucus , the ratification meeting , and the polls ! Who taught him to exhort men to prepare for eternity , as for some fu- ture era of which the present forms no integral part ...
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... present alarming juncture . At that spot , where you seem to see a speck of something in motion , is an im- mense mass - meeting . Look sharper , and you will see a mite brandishing his mandibles in an excited manner . That is the great ...
... present alarming juncture . At that spot , where you seem to see a speck of something in motion , is an im- mense mass - meeting . Look sharper , and you will see a mite brandishing his mandibles in an excited manner . That is the great ...
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