Studies in American LiteratureMacmillan, 1912 - 387 pages |
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... died . This is the forest primeval . The murmuring pines and the hemlocks . Dimeter with Dactyl , Trochee , and Iambus . Anapestic Trimeter . Trochaic Tetrameter . Iambic Pentameter . Hexameter with Dactyls and Trochee These feet and ...
... died . This is the forest primeval . The murmuring pines and the hemlocks . Dimeter with Dactyl , Trochee , and Iambus . Anapestic Trimeter . Trochaic Tetrameter . Iambic Pentameter . Hexameter with Dactyls and Trochee These feet and ...
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... died in London in 1632 . There are two of his works which are of special in- terest and importance for us ; one of these being prob- ably the first bit of writing done in America which was First ever printed . It is a letter written by ...
... died in London in 1632 . There are two of his works which are of special in- terest and importance for us ; one of these being prob- ably the first bit of writing done in America which was First ever printed . It is a letter written by ...
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... died in 1657 . He left several bits of historical writing ; but the most important is the " History of Plymouth Planta- tion , " which was preserved in his manuscript in Boston till the Revolution , when it disappeared . In 1855 it was ...
... died in 1657 . He left several bits of historical writing ; but the most important is the " History of Plymouth Planta- tion , " which was preserved in his manuscript in Boston till the Revolution , when it disappeared . In 1855 it was ...
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... died the same year . I will take for specimens of the work of Edwards some brief extracts showing different aspects of his many - sided nature . And first a single sentence from the famous sermon , " Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God ...
... died the same year . I will take for specimens of the work of Edwards some brief extracts showing different aspects of his many - sided nature . And first a single sentence from the famous sermon , " Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God ...
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... dying girl . While , his- torically , Godfrey's name is much less important than many others we have considered , he gives us , more than any of them , the promise of an artistic Litera- ture , and so with him we fittingly close one ...
... dying girl . While , his- torically , Godfrey's name is much less important than many others we have considered , he gives us , more than any of them , the promise of an artistic Litera- ture , and so with him we fittingly close one ...
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