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... 104 Nathaniel Hawthorne 119 The Literature of Slavery and Disunion 130 Daniel Webster 132 Abraham Lincoln 136 • John C. Calhoun 141 Timrod and Hayne 145 History Writing in America . John Lothrop Motley The Transcendental vii.
... 104 Nathaniel Hawthorne 119 The Literature of Slavery and Disunion 130 Daniel Webster 132 Abraham Lincoln 136 • John C. Calhoun 141 Timrod and Hayne 145 History Writing in America . John Lothrop Motley The Transcendental vii.
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... Lincoln hold a higher place in literature , doubtless , than do Jefferson and Hamilton ; but no one of the four was much concerned with " beauty of form or emotional effect . " They addressed the intellect as a clear , cold , logic ...
... Lincoln hold a higher place in literature , doubtless , than do Jefferson and Hamilton ; but no one of the four was much concerned with " beauty of form or emotional effect . " They addressed the intellect as a clear , cold , logic ...
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... Lincoln , whom he had seen ( but of course had not known ) nearly thirty years before , leading a company of Illinois volunteers to the Black - Hawk War . In 1864 a great meeting was held in New York in honor of Bryant's seventieth ...
... Lincoln , whom he had seen ( but of course had not known ) nearly thirty years before , leading a company of Illinois volunteers to the Black - Hawk War . In 1864 a great meeting was held in New York in honor of Bryant's seventieth ...
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... Lincoln . But these are exceptional . The themes of the vast majority of Bryant's poems are drawn from nature , of whom he could truly say that he held " Communion with her visible forms " with the woods and meadows and streams and ...
... Lincoln . But these are exceptional . The themes of the vast majority of Bryant's poems are drawn from nature , of whom he could truly say that he held " Communion with her visible forms " with the woods and meadows and streams and ...
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... Lincoln , with its refrain of " Bob - o ' - link , bob - o ' - link , Spink , spank , spink . " This song illustrates well also the separation of Bryant's two vocations ; for it was written in the same year in which the Post and its ...
... Lincoln , with its refrain of " Bob - o ' - link , bob - o ' - link , Spink , spank , spink . " This song illustrates well also the separation of Bryant's two vocations ; for it was written in the same year in which the Post and its ...
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