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Beacon Lights of History: New hall of fame. Premier personalities - Page 19
by John Lord - 1924
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Reminiscences, 1819-1899

Julia Ward Howe - 1899 - 540 pages
...forget them." So, with a sudden effort, I sprang out of bed, and found in the dimness an old stump of a pen which I remembered to have used the day before....scrawled the verses almost without looking at the paper. I had learned to do this when, on previous occasions, attacks of versification had visited me in the...
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Studies in American and British Literature

Inez Nellie Canfield McFee - 1905 - 614 pages
...and forget them." So with a sudden effort I sprang out of bed, and found in the dimness an old stump of a pen which I remembered to have used the day before....scrawled the verses almost without looking at the paper. I bad learned to do this when on previous occasions attacks of versification had visited me in the...
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Memorial Day Annual

1906 - 434 pages
...effort, I sprang out of bed, and found in the dimness an old stump of a pencil which I remembered ID 2 have used the day before. I scrawled the verses almost without looking at the paper. I was obliged to decipher my scrawl before another night should intervene, as it was only legible while...
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Memorial Day: Aids for Its Proper Observance by the Schools of Wisconsin

1910 - 96 pages
...effort, I sprang out of bed, and found in the dimness an old stump of a pencil which I remembered ID a have used the day before. I scrawled the verses almost without looking at the paper. I was obliged to decipher my scrawl before another night should intervene, as it was only legible while...
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The Photographic History of the Civil War ...: Poetry and eloquence of Blue ...

Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1911 - 366 pages
...them.' So, with a sudden effort, I sprang out of bed, and found in the dimness an old stump of a ]xn which I remembered to have used the day before. I scrawled the verses almost without looking at the pa|xr. I liad learned to do this when, on previous occasions, attacks of versification had visited...
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Women who Have Ennobled Life

Lilian Whiting - 1915 - 304 pages
..."With a sudden effort," related Mrs. Howe, "I sprang out of bed, and found in the dimness the old stump of a pen which I remembered to have used the day before....scrawled the verses almost without looking at the paper. I had learned to do this when, on previous occasions, attacks of versification had visited me in the...
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The Story of the American Hymn

Edward Summerfield Ninde - 1921 - 488 pages
...effort, I sprang out of bed, and found in the dimness an old stump of a pen which I re256 membered to have used the day before. I scrawled the verses almost without looking at the paper. I had learned to do this when, on previous occasions, attacks of versification had visited me in the...
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Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages with Life ...

Joseph Adelman - 1928 - 344 pages
...fall asleep again and forget them.' So, with a sudden effort, I sprang out of bed, and in the dimness I scrawled the verses almost without looking at the...completed my writing, I returned to bed and fell asleep." The poem, under the title, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," was published soon after, in the Atlantic...
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The New England Quarterly, Volume 24

1951 - 598 pages
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Lyric Religion: The Romance of Immortal Hymns

Henry Augustine Smith - 1931 - 560 pages
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