Benjamin Franklin as a Man of LettersK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1887 - 293 páginas |
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... verse , treating of subjects which at that time filled the popular mind . The keeper of the Boston light had been drowned in a storm . A pirate renowned along the whole coast had been killed . There is not now living a man who has ever ...
... verse , treating of subjects which at that time filled the popular mind . The keeper of the Boston light had been drowned in a storm . A pirate renowned along the whole coast had been killed . There is not now living a man who has ever ...
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... verses was great and lasting , the demand for them was incessant , and the printer who could furnish a steady supply was sure of a rich re- turn . Thomas Fleet is said to have made no small part of his fortune by the sale of ballads his ...
... verses was great and lasting , the demand for them was incessant , and the printer who could furnish a steady supply was sure of a rich re- turn . Thomas Fleet is said to have made no small part of his fortune by the sale of ballads his ...
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... verse . The search after words that would not change the sense , yet were of length to suit the meter and of sound to suit the rhyme , was , he felt sure , the best way to supply the deficiency . When his vocabulary had been enlarged ...
... verse . The search after words that would not change the sense , yet were of length to suit the meter and of sound to suit the rhyme , was , he felt sure , the best way to supply the deficiency . When his vocabulary had been enlarged ...
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... verse , and is a paraphrase of the sublime lamen- tation of David over the death of Jonathan and Saul . He begins by stating his belief that the art of poetry was made known to the Hebrews by Moses ; gives reasons for thinking so ...
... verse , and is a paraphrase of the sublime lamen- tation of David over the death of Jonathan and Saul . He begins by stating his belief that the art of poetry was made known to the Hebrews by Moses ; gives reasons for thinking so ...
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... verses from the first chapter of Job , stripped them of every particle of grace , beauty , imagery , terseness , and strength , and wrote a paraphrase which , of all paraphrases of the Bible , is surely the worst . JOB . Verse 6. Now ...
... verses from the first chapter of Job , stripped them of every particle of grace , beauty , imagery , terseness , and strength , and wrote a paraphrase which , of all paraphrases of the Bible , is surely the worst . JOB . Verse 6. Now ...
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