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... give entire pieces of some length , when this could be done advantageously , rather than short and detached portions of different poems . I have in all cases where it was practicable , applied to the authors for permission to make such ...
... give entire pieces of some length , when this could be done advantageously , rather than short and detached portions of different poems . I have in all cases where it was practicable , applied to the authors for permission to make such ...
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... verse which have remained to the present day , and give a brief historical sketch of the early poetical literature of the English Colonies . VOL . I. B * It was hardly three years from the arrival of the INTRODUCTION,
... verse which have remained to the present day , and give a brief historical sketch of the early poetical literature of the English Colonies . VOL . I. B * It was hardly three years from the arrival of the INTRODUCTION,
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... give the reader the views which they entertained of the nature of their task . * Although this was the first book , it was not the first specimen of printing in the country . The year previous there was published an Almanack and The ...
... give the reader the views which they entertained of the nature of their task . * Although this was the first book , it was not the first specimen of printing in the country . The year previous there was published an Almanack and The ...
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... give it a little more polish . The following extract will convey some idea of the rest of the work . PSALM CXXXVII . 1. The rivers on of Babilon , there when wee did sit downe , Yea even then wee mourned when wee remembered Sion . 2 ...
... give it a little more polish . The following extract will convey some idea of the rest of the work . PSALM CXXXVII . 1. The rivers on of Babilon , there when wee did sit downe , Yea even then wee mourned when wee remembered Sion . 2 ...
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... give a visitation , In lakes and ponds , you leave your numerous fry , So nature taught , and yet you know not why , You watry folk that know not your felicity . Look how the wantons frisk to taste the air , Then to the colder bottome ...
... give a visitation , In lakes and ponds , you leave your numerous fry , So nature taught , and yet you know not why , You watry folk that know not your felicity . Look how the wantons frisk to taste the air , Then to the colder bottome ...
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