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I do not speak this out of any spirit of party . There is a most crying dullness on both sides . I have seen tory acrostics and whig anagrams , and do not quarrel with either of them because they are whigs or tories , but because they ...
I do not speak this out of any spirit of party . There is a most crying dullness on both sides . I have seen tory acrostics and whig anagrams , and do not quarrel with either of them because they are whigs or tories , but because they ...
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The wise sweet spirit that informed it all Is otherwhere . The house itself is dead . O autumn wind among the somber pines , Breathe you his dirge , but be it sweet and low , With deep refrains and murmurs of the sea , Like 58 ALDRICH.
The wise sweet spirit that informed it all Is otherwhere . The house itself is dead . O autumn wind among the somber pines , Breathe you his dirge , but be it sweet and low , With deep refrains and murmurs of the sea , Like 58 ALDRICH.
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The spirit of the mountain looks on thee Over a hundred hills : quaint shadows flee Across thy marbled mirror : brooding lie Storm mists of infant cloud , With a sight - baffling shroud Mantling the gray blue islands in the western sky ...
The spirit of the mountain looks on thee Over a hundred hills : quaint shadows flee Across thy marbled mirror : brooding lie Storm mists of infant cloud , With a sight - baffling shroud Mantling the gray blue islands in the western sky ...
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SONG O SPIRIT of the Summertime ! Bring back the roses to the dells ; The swallow from her distant clime , The honey - bee from drowsy cells . Bring back the friendship of the sun ; The gilded evenings , calm and late , When merry ...
SONG O SPIRIT of the Summertime ! Bring back the roses to the dells ; The swallow from her distant clime , The honey - bee from drowsy cells . Bring back the friendship of the sun ; The gilded evenings , calm and late , When merry ...
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Soon was he swimming who lived through the strife , The foes ' fierce assault , dived he up through the water : The stirrings of waves all were cleansed , The regions wide , when the strange - spirit Left his life - days and this ...
Soon was he swimming who lived through the strife , The foes ' fierce assault , dived he up through the water : The stirrings of waves all were cleansed , The regions wide , when the strange - spirit Left his life - days and this ...
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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