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... Phi Beta Kappa Society , was little less profitable ; and he was paid seven hundred and fifty dollars for a song of half a dozen stanzas , en- titled " Adams and Liberty . " His habits , in the sunshine . gradually improved , and his ...
... Phi Beta Kappa Society , was little less profitable ; and he was paid seven hundred and fifty dollars for a song of half a dozen stanzas , en- titled " Adams and Liberty . " His habits , in the sunshine . gradually improved , and his ...
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... Phi Beta Kappa poem at Cambridge , they became personally ac- quainted , and a friendship sprung up which has lasted until the present time . meets with strange and terrible retribution . In attempting to compress his language he is ...
... Phi Beta Kappa poem at Cambridge , they became personally ac- quainted , and a friendship sprung up which has lasted until the present time . meets with strange and terrible retribution . In attempting to compress his language he is ...
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... Phi Beta Kappa Society , ( not much in the habit of selecting juve- nile writers , ) to deliver a poem before them aà their next anniversary . It was on this occasion that he wrote " The Judgment , " which was pro- nounced before that ...
... Phi Beta Kappa Society , ( not much in the habit of selecting juve- nile writers , ) to deliver a poem before them aà their next anniversary . It was on this occasion that he wrote " The Judgment , " which was pro- nounced before that ...
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... Phi Beta Kappa Society " of Harvard College . Some of his minor pieces have been deservedly popular , and may be found in numerous school - books and choice selec- tions of literature . THE SILENT GIRL . SHE seldom spake ; yet she ...
... Phi Beta Kappa Society " of Harvard College . Some of his minor pieces have been deservedly popular , and may be found in numerous school - books and choice selec- tions of literature . THE SILENT GIRL . SHE seldom spake ; yet she ...
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... Phi Beta Kappa Society , at Cambridge , in August , 1829. It is in the heroic measure , and its diction is faultless . The subject was happily chosen , and admitted of a great variety of illustrations . The descriptions of the miser ...
... Phi Beta Kappa Society , at Cambridge , in August , 1829. It is in the heroic measure , and its diction is faultless . The subject was happily chosen , and admitted of a great variety of illustrations . The descriptions of the miser ...
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