Major Writers of America, Volume 1Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 Selections from the writings of fifteen important American authors, including portions of novels, short stories, prose and poems. |
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... never spoke but to answer ; that , though at intervals he had considerable time to himself , yet I had never seen him reading - no , not even a newspaper ; that for long periods he would stand looking out , at his pale window behind ...
... never spoke but to answer ; that , though at intervals he had considerable time to himself , yet I had never seen him reading - no , not even a newspaper ; that for long periods he would stand looking out , at his pale window behind ...
Page 1074
... never be made ridiculous . Of ornaments to a work nothing outre can be allowed but those ornaments can be allowed that conform to the perfect facts of the open air and that flow out of the nature of the work and come irrepressibly from ...
... never be made ridiculous . Of ornaments to a work nothing outre can be allowed but those ornaments can be allowed that conform to the perfect facts of the open air and that flow out of the nature of the work and come irrepressibly from ...
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... Never before was such a compact jam in front of the White House -all the grounds fill'd , and away out to the spacious sidewalks . I was there , as I took a no- tion to go - was in the rush inside with the crowd - surged along the ...
... Never before was such a compact jam in front of the White House -all the grounds fill'd , and away out to the spacious sidewalks . I was there , as I took a no- tion to go - was in the rush inside with the crowd - surged along the ...
Contents
WILLIAM BRADFORD | 3 |
My Father and Your Father To | 4 |
Introduction | 10 |
Copyright | |
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