The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: PoemsPrinted at the Riverside Press, 1892 |
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... give an innocent pleasure to many . As a proof that he is competent to the production of other kinds of poetry , we copy for our readers a short fragment of a pastoral by him , the manuscript of which was loaned us by a friend . The ...
... give an innocent pleasure to many . As a proof that he is competent to the production of other kinds of poetry , we copy for our readers a short fragment of a pastoral by him , the manuscript of which was loaned us by a friend . The ...
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... gives the rough sound to the r when he can help it , and often displays consider- able ingenuity in avoiding it even before a vowel . 2. He seldom sounds the final g , a piece of self - denial , if we consider his partiality for nasals ...
... gives the rough sound to the r when he can help it , and often displays consider- able ingenuity in avoiding it even before a vowel . 2. He seldom sounds the final g , a piece of self - denial , if we consider his partiality for nasals ...
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... give as much of directness and personal application to my discourses as met the wants of my congregation , without risk of offending any by being supposed to have him or her in my eye ( as the saying seemed yet to Mrs. Wilbur a ...
... give as much of directness and personal application to my discourses as met the wants of my congregation , without risk of offending any by being supposed to have him or her in my eye ( as the saying seemed yet to Mrs. Wilbur a ...
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... give a lickin ' To them poor half - Spanish drones ? Jest go home an ' ask our Nancy Wether I'd be sech a goose Ez to jine ye , guess you'd fancy The etarnal bung wuz loose ! She wants me fer home consumption , Let alone the hay ' s to ...
... give a lickin ' To them poor half - Spanish drones ? Jest go home an ' ask our Nancy Wether I'd be sech a goose Ez to jine ye , guess you'd fancy The etarnal bung wuz loose ! She wants me fer home consumption , Let alone the hay ' s to ...
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... give a year's pay fer a smell o ' one good blue- nose tater ; The country here thet Mister Bolles declared to be so charmin ' Throughout is swarmin ' with the most alarmin ' kind o ' varmin . 1 it must be aloud that thare ' s a streak ...
... give a year's pay fer a smell o ' one good blue- nose tater ; The country here thet Mister Bolles declared to be so charmin ' Throughout is swarmin ' with the most alarmin ' kind o ' varmin . 1 it must be aloud that thare ' s a streak ...
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