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Page 270
... kind thing , when the man burst into tears and cried , Thank God , I have heard one kind word before I die ! ' In a few minutes the poor wretch was dead . " On the eve of the battle of the fifth of August , they es- cape to a plantation ...
... kind thing , when the man burst into tears and cried , Thank God , I have heard one kind word before I die ! ' In a few minutes the poor wretch was dead . " On the eve of the battle of the fifth of August , they es- cape to a plantation ...
Page 487
... kind of poetry scarcely leaks through at all . It is a strik- ing phenomenon of the period that the declamatory versification of public events should completely have rendered inaudible , should have driven into virtual hiding , the more ...
... kind of poetry scarcely leaks through at all . It is a strik- ing phenomenon of the period that the declamatory versification of public events should completely have rendered inaudible , should have driven into virtual hiding , the more ...
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... kind of mimicry was one of the things that made his readings successful , and he seems to have set out in this novel to provide a certain number of scenes which would keep his mainly well - schooled audi- ences in gales of good ...
... kind of mimicry was one of the things that made his readings successful , and he seems to have set out in this novel to provide a certain number of scenes which would keep his mainly well - schooled audi- ences in gales of good ...
Contents
Harriet Beecher Stowe | 3 |
Calvin Stowe Francis Grierson The Battle Hymn | 59 |
Abraham Lincoln | 99 |
Copyright | |
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War Edmund Wilson Limited preview - 1994 |
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