Anglo-American Literature and Manners, etc. [Translated by Donald Macleod.]Charles Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... tree , and deprived of its sap . Scotland , even , is proud of her dialect : she has her poet Burns , whose inspiration was at once extinguished when he became unfaithful to the patois of his province . The republicans of the United ...
... tree , and deprived of its sap . Scotland , even , is proud of her dialect : she has her poet Burns , whose inspiration was at once extinguished when he became unfaithful to the patois of his province . The republicans of the United ...
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... tree at the other end of the field , knits the woollen vestments for the winter . In another place you have a duel between two serpents , the recital of which is grave and solemn as a battle of Homer ; the author's strong impressions ...
... tree at the other end of the field , knits the woollen vestments for the winter . In another place you have a duel between two serpents , the recital of which is grave and solemn as a battle of Homer ; the author's strong impressions ...
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... tree of the wood . His diction is slow , sometimes even labori- ous and embarrassed ; but it reproduces everything , green- gleaming savannahs , stretches of sand , old oaks and limitless deserts ; lakes like the oceans - the shadows of ...
... tree of the wood . His diction is slow , sometimes even labori- ous and embarrassed ; but it reproduces everything , green- gleaming savannahs , stretches of sand , old oaks and limitless deserts ; lakes like the oceans - the shadows of ...
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... tree whose branches were the home of the feathered people whose habits he came to study and which he never lost sight of . The path which he chose , was that where the bird was hopping . The nest of the eagle whose throne was the peak ...
... tree whose branches were the home of the feathered people whose habits he came to study and which he never lost sight of . The path which he chose , was that where the bird was hopping . The nest of the eagle whose throne was the peak ...
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... questions respecting them ; nor does he look on the trees which they frequent , or the flowers over which they glide , without admiring their grandeur , or delighting in their sweet odors , or 62 ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF.
... questions respecting them ; nor does he look on the trees which they frequent , or the flowers over which they glide , without admiring their grandeur , or delighting in their sweet odors , or 62 ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF.
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