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... lap dog hanging on their arms , Novels from Circulating Library , “ Law's Serious Call to unconverted folks , " Love elegies , a Bible , and a cat , Were duly ranged , for ornament or use , As spleen prevailed or visiters came in .
... lap dog hanging on their arms , Novels from Circulating Library , “ Law's Serious Call to unconverted folks , " Love elegies , a Bible , and a cat , Were duly ranged , for ornament or use , As spleen prevailed or visiters came in .
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As near his little farm she stray'd , Where birds of love were ever pairing , She saw her William in the shade , The arms of ruthless war preparing . “ Though now , ” he cried , “ I seek the hostile plain , Mary shall smile , and all be ...
As near his little farm she stray'd , Where birds of love were ever pairing , She saw her William in the shade , The arms of ruthless war preparing . “ Though now , ” he cried , “ I seek the hostile plain , Mary shall smile , and all be ...
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Not caring to encounter fire - arms in so wild a place , I was turning back , when I saw a dog hunting about among the bushes , and close after him a young man , who came running towards me , not to plunder , as I for an instant ...
Not caring to encounter fire - arms in so wild a place , I was turning back , when I saw a dog hunting about among the bushes , and close after him a young man , who came running towards me , not to plunder , as I for an instant ...
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There was an old woman , smoking a pipe , not more than an inch long , a young one with a child in her arms , and a man , seated on the ground , round a smoke rather than a fire , eating cake made of Indian meal , and hominy ...
There was an old woman , smoking a pipe , not more than an inch long , a young one with a child in her arms , and a man , seated on the ground , round a smoke rather than a fire , eating cake made of Indian meal , and hominy ...
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Life's blooming spring just opens to our eyes , And strikes the senses with a sweet surprise , When thy fierce arm uplifts the fatal blow That hurls us breathless to the earth below . Sudden , as darts the lightning through the sky ...
Life's blooming spring just opens to our eyes , And strikes the senses with a sweet surprise , When thy fierce arm uplifts the fatal blow That hurls us breathless to the earth below . Sudden , as darts the lightning through the sky ...
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Philadelphia Book, Or, Specimens of Metropolitan Literature |
| Autor | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau |
| Editor | Key & Biddle, 1836 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 28 Feb. 2006 |
| Largo | 380 páginas |
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