Melibœus-Hipponax. The Biglow papers, ed. with an intr. &c. by Homer Wilbur |
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... readers of every taste may find a dish to their palate . I have modelled them upon actually existing specimens , preserved ... reader . . . . . . Under a rustic garb , sentiments are conveyed which should be committed to the memory and ...
... readers of every taste may find a dish to their palate . I have modelled them upon actually existing specimens , preserved ... reader . . . . . . Under a rustic garb , sentiments are conveyed which should be committed to the memory and ...
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James Russell Lowell. NOTICES OF AN INDEPENDENT PRESS . [ I HAVE observed , reader ( bene- or male - volent , as it may happen ) , that it is customary to append to the second editions of books , and to the second works of authors ...
James Russell Lowell. NOTICES OF AN INDEPENDENT PRESS . [ I HAVE observed , reader ( bene- or male - volent , as it may happen ) , that it is customary to append to the second editions of books , and to the second works of authors ...
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... readers of every taste may find a dish to their palate . I have modelled them upon actually existing specimens , preserved ... reader . . . . . . Under a rustic garb , sentiments are conveyed which should be committed to the memory and ...
... readers of every taste may find a dish to their palate . I have modelled them upon actually existing specimens , preserved ... reader . . . . . . Under a rustic garb , sentiments are conveyed which should be committed to the memory and ...
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... reader . We will barely suggest , that in volumes intended , as this is , for the illustration of a provincial dialect and turns of expression , a dash of humour or satire might be thrown in with advantage . . . . . . The work is ...
... reader . We will barely suggest , that in volumes intended , as this is , for the illustration of a provincial dialect and turns of expression , a dash of humour or satire might be thrown in with advantage . . . . . . The work is ...
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... reader irresistibly along on its eagle pinions ( like Ganymede ) to the " highest heaven of invention . " We love a book so purely objective . Many of his pictures of natural scenery have an extraordinary subjective clearness and ...
... reader irresistibly along on its eagle pinions ( like Ganymede ) to the " highest heaven of invention . " We love a book so purely objective . Many of his pictures of natural scenery have an extraordinary subjective clearness and ...
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