Famous Single Poems and the Controversies which Have Raged Around ThemHarcourt, Brace, 1923 - 338 páginas |
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... perhaps the question of its authorship is not so unimportant after all . At any rate , it forms one of those curiosities of literature which are always interesting ; and the whole story is here told , so far as the present writer knows ...
... perhaps the question of its authorship is not so unimportant after all . At any rate , it forms one of those curiosities of literature which are always interesting ; and the whole story is here told , so far as the present writer knows ...
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... perhaps only bored ) , Eugénie with a tear in her eye , while the tenor sang , " Non ti scordar di me ! " Editors of Queries and Answers were kept busy explaining the meaning of that phrase , and many editions found it expedient to ...
... perhaps only bored ) , Eugénie with a tear in her eye , while the tenor sang , " Non ti scordar di me ! " Editors of Queries and Answers were kept busy explaining the meaning of that phrase , and many editions found it expedient to ...
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... perhaps Captain Coghlan was not reprimanded , after all ! But neither Wilhelm II , nor the German Ambassador , nor Secretary Hay , nor the Navy Department , nor all of them combined could suppress " Hoch ! der Kaiser . " That ...
... perhaps Captain Coghlan was not reprimanded , after all ! But neither Wilhelm II , nor the German Ambassador , nor Secretary Hay , nor the Navy Department , nor all of them combined could suppress " Hoch ! der Kaiser . " That ...
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... Perhaps in Scotland there still may be some poems associated with his name ; in America there is only one . The city editor of the Herald turned to Rose one day in 1897 , after one of the characteristic outbursts of the German Emperor ...
... Perhaps in Scotland there still may be some poems associated with his name ; in America there is only one . The city editor of the Herald turned to Rose one day in 1897 , after one of the characteristic outbursts of the German Emperor ...
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... So Alexander Macgregor Rose never knew that his name was to survive as the author of one famous poem . Perhaps he would have pre- ferred that it die with him ! A VISIT FROM ST . NICHOLAS A VISIT FROM ST 46 Famous Single Poems.
... So Alexander Macgregor Rose never knew that his name was to survive as the author of one famous poem . Perhaps he would have pre- ferred that it die with him ! A VISIT FROM ST . NICHOLAS A VISIT FROM ST 46 Famous Single Poems.
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Famous Single Poems and the Controversies which Have Raged Around Them Burton Egbert Stevenson Visualização integral - 1923 |
Famous Single Poems: And the Controversies which Have Raged Around Them Burton Egbert Stevenson Visualização de excertos - 1924 |
Famous Single Poems and the Controversies which Have Raged Around Them Burton Egbert Stevenson Visualização de excertos - 1935 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Akers Alexander Macgregor Rose Allison appeared Arabella Eugenia Smith authorship Ball's Beautiful Snow Ben Bolt Bolt bottle of rum Bulmer Butler called Captain Coghlan Casey chantey Christmas claim Clement Clarke Moore controversy copy course credited D'Vys Dead Man's Chest death Dungan editor evidence eyes fact famous friends gave Harper's Weekly heard heart Henry Livingston Homer Greene Hopper Horace Greeley John Luckey McCreery Journal Joyce Kaiser later letter lines literary living Lizzie York Lover McCallum Meinself-und Gott Miss Doudney Moore never newspaper Nicholas night once one-poem paper poem poet poetic poetry printed proved published recited Rock Rose says seems sent sentimental Sleep song stanzas story Thayer thing Thomas Dunn English thought tion to-night Treasure Island Unbelief verses Visit from St volume Water-Mill wear word write written wrote the poem Yo-ho-ho York Sun young
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Página 179 - God pity them both! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been...
Página 50 - Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below, When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer, With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
Página 313 - Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest— Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest— Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
Página 246 - Over my heart, in the days that are flown, No love like mother-love ever has shone; No other worship abides and endures — Faithful, unselfish and patient, like yours; None like a mother can charm away pain From the sick soul and the world-weary brain.
Página 51 - His eyes — how they twinkled! — his dimples how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry! His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow...
Página 102 - So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat, For there seemed but little chance of Casey's getting to the bat. But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all, And Blake, the much despised, tore the cover off the ball...
Página 225 - Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone, For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Página 115 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Página 102 - It knocked upon the mountain and recoiled upon the flat, For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat. There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped into his place. There was pride in Casey's bearing and a smile on Casey's face. And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat, No stranger in the crowd could doubt 'twas Casey at the bat.
Página 245 - Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!