The Philadelphia Book: Or, Specimens of Metropolitan LiteratureKey & Biddle, 1836 - 380 páginas |
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... he is informed that the work , thus highly praised , is a poem consisting only of four lines ; but as there is no reason why a poet should be restricted in his number of verses , as it would be a 20 THE PHILADELPHIA BOOK .
... he is informed that the work , thus highly praised , is a poem consisting only of four lines ; but as there is no reason why a poet should be restricted in his number of verses , as it would be a 20 THE PHILADELPHIA BOOK .
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... reason of the sad misfortune , or how the prudence of Jack forsook him , we are not informed , but so , alas ! it happened , Jack fell down- Unfortunate John ! At the moment when he was nimbly , for aught we know , going up the hill ...
... reason of the sad misfortune , or how the prudence of Jack forsook him , we are not informed , but so , alas ! it happened , Jack fell down- Unfortunate John ! At the moment when he was nimbly , for aught we know , going up the hill ...
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... reason than the son of Philip , to weep at the limits which confined him . To part with the great and good from a world which thus wants them , and not to re- ceive thereafter the refreshing influence of their purified and exalted fame ...
... reason than the son of Philip , to weep at the limits which confined him . To part with the great and good from a world which thus wants them , and not to re- ceive thereafter the refreshing influence of their purified and exalted fame ...
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... reason- ings , " he says , " have no tendency to improve social in- tercourse ; nor are they applicable to the common affairs of life : but a just taste in the fine arts , derived from ra- tional principles , is a fine preparation for ...
... reason- ings , " he says , " have no tendency to improve social in- tercourse ; nor are they applicable to the common affairs of life : but a just taste in the fine arts , derived from ra- tional principles , is a fine preparation for ...
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... reason , nor had my military friend any , to induce a belief that this was not as genuine and as honest a ghost as ever was beheld by mortal eyes . The fact is , that this young gentleman had lately seen so many of his fellow mortals ...
... reason , nor had my military friend any , to induce a belief that this was not as genuine and as honest a ghost as ever was beheld by mortal eyes . The fact is , that this young gentleman had lately seen so many of his fellow mortals ...
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