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... interest in the sense that the images they sum- mon are metaphors for hidden emotions . The horror stories of Bierce have only in a very few cases such psy- chological interest as may come from exploiting dramati- cally some abnormal ...
... interest in the sense that the images they sum- mon are metaphors for hidden emotions . The horror stories of Bierce have only in a very few cases such psy- chological interest as may come from exploiting dramati- cally some abnormal ...
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... interest on exhibi- tion . The interest of it , I very presently knew , would certainly be of the greatest , would even in conditions kept as simple as I might make them become little less than absorbing . The shortest account of what ...
... interest on exhibi- tion . The interest of it , I very presently knew , would certainly be of the greatest , would even in conditions kept as simple as I might make them become little less than absorbing . The shortest account of what ...
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... interest , an inexhaustible , I mean ; since I also felt in the whole enveloping tonic atmosphere a force promoting its growth . Interest , the interest of life and of death , of our national existence , of the fate of those , the ...
... interest , an inexhaustible , I mean ; since I also felt in the whole enveloping tonic atmosphere a force promoting its growth . Interest , the interest of life and of death , of our national existence , of the fate of those , the ...
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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