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... disrepute , chiefly from the simplicity of its style , which in this age of luxurious
refinement , is deemed only a secondary beauty , and from its being the favourite
of the young , who can relish , without being able to illustrate , its excellence .
... disrepute , chiefly from the simplicity of its style , which in this age of luxurious
refinement , is deemed only a secondary beauty , and from its being the favourite
of the young , who can relish , without being able to illustrate , its excellence .
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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 apprehended ...
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 apprehended ...
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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 , a preparation ...
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 , a preparation ...
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My dulcet harp was strung to Rapture's notes ; Its jocund strings re - echoed
themes of love , Or careless caroll'd what young joys could teach . When twilight
came , I sought the mountain's brow , To mark her solemn grandeur hastening
near .
My dulcet harp was strung to Rapture's notes ; Its jocund strings re - echoed
themes of love , Or careless caroll'd what young joys could teach . When twilight
came , I sought the mountain's brow , To mark her solemn grandeur hastening
near .
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O there's a joy in youth , ne'er felt again , The joy of new - found being fills us then
, The novelty of life — the buoyant sense Of young existence , exquisite , intense .
Let woe come then , beneath the heart's own ray How soon it melts like moon ...
O there's a joy in youth , ne'er felt again , The joy of new - found being fills us then
, The novelty of life — the buoyant sense Of young existence , exquisite , intense .
Let woe come then , beneath the heart's own ray How soon it melts like moon ...
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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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