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... death of someone very interesting to him , ' My dear , Byron is dead - gone . ' After being awhile silent , he said , ' Oh , I'm sorry that Byron is dead . I did hope he would live to do something for Christ . What a harp he might have ...
... death of someone very interesting to him , ' My dear , Byron is dead - gone . ' After being awhile silent , he said , ' Oh , I'm sorry that Byron is dead . I did hope he would live to do something for Christ . What a harp he might have ...
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... Death play an almost personal role . His accounts of battles he took part in are among the most attractive of his writings , because here he is able to combine a ceaseless looking Death in the face with a delight in the wonder of the ...
... Death play an almost personal role . His accounts of battles he took part in are among the most attractive of his writings , because here he is able to combine a ceaseless looking Death in the face with a delight in the wonder of the ...
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... death and gratify a reprehensible curiosity " ; and then , after a description of the corpses , inhumanly swollen or shrunken , " Faugh ! I cannot cata- logue the charms of these gallant gentlemen who had got what they enlisted for ...
... death and gratify a reprehensible curiosity " ; and then , after a description of the corpses , inhumanly swollen or shrunken , " Faugh ! I cannot cata- logue the charms of these gallant gentlemen who had got what they enlisted for ...
Contents
Harriet Beecher Stowe | 3 |
Calvin Stowe Francis Grierson The Battle Hymn | 59 |
Abraham Lincoln | 99 |
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War Edmund Wilson Limited preview - 1994 |
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