Major Writers of America, Volume 1Perry Miller Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 - Literary Criticism Selections from the writings of fifteen important American authors, including portions of novels, short stories, prose and poems. |
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... fall thick and fast on a winter's day . The winds are lulled , and the snow falls incessant , covering the tops of the mountains , and the hills , and the plains where the lotus tree grows , and the cultivated fields , and they are falling ...
... fall thick and fast on a winter's day . The winds are lulled , and the snow falls incessant , covering the tops of the mountains , and the hills , and the plains where the lotus tree grows , and the cultivated fields , and they are falling ...
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... falls . 1875 1873 1880 1879 MILTON I pace the sounding sea - beach and behold How the voluminous billows roll and ... fall The mighty undulations of thy song , O sightless bard , England's Mæonides ! IO MORITURI SALUTAMUS POEM FOR THE ...
... falls . 1875 1873 1880 1879 MILTON I pace the sounding sea - beach and behold How the voluminous billows roll and ... fall The mighty undulations of thy song , O sightless bard , England's Mæonides ! IO MORITURI SALUTAMUS POEM FOR THE ...
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... fall of Alamo , Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo , The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo , ) ' Tis the tale of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men . Retreating they had form'd in a hollow square ...
... fall of Alamo , Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo , The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo , ) ' Tis the tale of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men . Retreating they had form'd in a hollow square ...
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