American Literature: From the beginning to 1860.-v. 2. From 1860 to the presentC. Scribner's Sons, 1948 |
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... Death bribed can be , We must be guilty ; say it was bribery Guided the fatal shaft , Virginia's foes , To whom for secret crimes just vengeance Owes Deserved plagues , dreading their just de- sert , 15 Corrupted death by Paracelsian ...
... Death bribed can be , We must be guilty ; say it was bribery Guided the fatal shaft , Virginia's foes , To whom for secret crimes just vengeance Owes Deserved plagues , dreading their just de- sert , 15 Corrupted death by Paracelsian ...
Page 513
... death , see by this image , which is thine own , how utterly thou hast murdered thyself . " THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH [ 1850 ( 1842 ) ] THE " RED DEATH " had long devas- tated the country . No pestilence had ever been so fatal , or so ...
... death , see by this image , which is thine own , how utterly thou hast murdered thyself . " THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH [ 1850 ( 1842 ) ] THE " RED DEATH " had long devas- tated the country . No pestilence had ever been so fatal , or so ...
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... death as a thing close at hand ; but it was something in the way that children will refer to death in general , who yet among their other sports will play a fu- neral with hearse and mourners . Not that like children Billy was incapable ...
... death as a thing close at hand ; but it was something in the way that children will refer to death in general , who yet among their other sports will play a fu- neral with hearse and mourners . Not that like children Billy was incapable ...
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