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... volume ; here is a field ample enough for the most vituperative critic to exercise his skill in . Many will see that some favorite piece - or , it may be , some favorite author - has been left out ; and may hastily ask why it is so . It ...
... volume ; here is a field ample enough for the most vituperative critic to exercise his skill in . Many will see that some favorite piece - or , it may be , some favorite author - has been left out ; and may hastily ask why it is so . It ...
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... volume half as large as this . But , if it will be any gratification to these querists , I will candidly acknow ... volumes . My publishers - and no author could in this respect be more highly favored - have done their part , as before ...
... volume half as large as this . But , if it will be any gratification to these querists , I will candidly acknow ... volumes . My publishers - and no author could in this respect be more highly favored - have done their part , as before ...
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... volume quite as much , at least , as some who were in it , and I declared my purpose to do my best to remedy the defect in the second edition . This I did , to as great an extent as was consistent with my plan , by introducing sixty ...
... volume quite as much , at least , as some who were in it , and I declared my purpose to do my best to remedy the defect in the second edition . This I did , to as great an extent as was consistent with my plan , by introducing sixty ...
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... Names incidentally mentioned in the volume .................. .................. . ALPHABETICAL LIST OF AUTHORS . ABBOTT , JACOB ............... .. JAMES T. FIELDS : Biographical Sketch Ballad of the Tempest ..................... 746 SARA ...
... Names incidentally mentioned in the volume .................. .................. . ALPHABETICAL LIST OF AUTHORS . ABBOTT , JACOB ............... .. JAMES T. FIELDS : Biographical Sketch Ballad of the Tempest ..................... 746 SARA ...
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... volume of her poems was published in Lon- don , in 1772 . In 1773 , her health had so far declined , from her close attention to her studies , that her physicians recommended a sea - voyage , and accordingly she sailed for England . Her ...
... volume of her poems was published in Lon- don , in 1772 . In 1773 , her health had so far declined , from her close attention to her studies , that her physicians recommended a sea - voyage , and accordingly she sailed for England . Her ...
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