Harper's Magazine, Volume 145Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen Harper & Brothers, 1922 - American literature Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... Morning Post or the Spectator is a high honor . I have met these " contributors " all over the British Empire . Some , I admit , look strange . An ancient wreck in the back bar of an Ontario tavern ( ancien régime ) has told me that he ...
... Morning Post or the Spectator is a high honor . I have met these " contributors " all over the British Empire . Some , I admit , look strange . An ancient wreck in the back bar of an Ontario tavern ( ancien régime ) has told me that he ...
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... Morning Post and , in a more qualified way , from the Manchester Guardian . In short , success seemed easy . I decided , therefore , to take some simple political event of the peculiar kind that always makes a stir in English politics ...
... Morning Post and , in a more qualified way , from the Manchester Guardian . In short , success seemed easy . I decided , therefore , to take some simple political event of the peculiar kind that always makes a stir in English politics ...
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... morning March was sitting in the window seat of the old inn parlor , which was oak - paneled and ordinarily rather dark ; but on that occasion it was full of the white light of a curiously clear morning - the moon had shone brilliantly ...
... morning March was sitting in the window seat of the old inn parlor , which was oak - paneled and ordinarily rather dark ; but on that occasion it was full of the white light of a curiously clear morning - the moon had shone brilliantly ...
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... morning when the dredging crew were startled to find a band of excited savages waiting for them . The Indians were not after scalps , however . They demanded a bridge across their pre- historic waterway , and they got it . The untutored ...
... morning when the dredging crew were startled to find a band of excited savages waiting for them . The Indians were not after scalps , however . They demanded a bridge across their pre- historic waterway , and they got it . The untutored ...
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... morning in the Cyclades , when the other islands come up out of the mist like hummocks of amethyst and the cicadas shrill in the long grass under the almond trees . There was in it an adumbration of youth beyond his experience , a hint ...
... morning in the Cyclades , when the other islands come up out of the mist like hummocks of amethyst and the cicadas shrill in the long grass under the almond trees . There was in it an adumbration of youth beyond his experience , a hint ...
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