Copeland's Treasury for Booklovers, Volume 1C. Scribner's Sons, 1927 - American literature |
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... Thing " from " Can Such Things Be ? " by Ambrose Bierce . Copyright 1918 , 1925 , by Boni & Liveright , Inc. Dodd , Mead & Company : " The Great Lover " and " The Soldier " from " Poems " by Rupert Brooke ; " Ethandune : The Last Charge ...
... Thing " from " Can Such Things Be ? " by Ambrose Bierce . Copyright 1918 , 1925 , by Boni & Liveright , Inc. Dodd , Mead & Company : " The Great Lover " and " The Soldier " from " Poems " by Rupert Brooke ; " Ethandune : The Last Charge ...
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... Thing " from " Can Such Things Be ? " by Ambrose Bierce . Copyright 1909 by the Neale Publishing Company . G. P. Putnam's Sons : " Bernhardt " from " Enchanted Aisles " by Alexander Wooll- cott . Copyright 1924 by G. P. Putnam's Sons ...
... Thing " from " Can Such Things Be ? " by Ambrose Bierce . Copyright 1909 by the Neale Publishing Company . G. P. Putnam's Sons : " Bernhardt " from " Enchanted Aisles " by Alexander Wooll- cott . Copyright 1924 by G. P. Putnam's Sons ...
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... thing is ancient . For Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius , if one mark them well , are but Essays , —that is , dispersed Meditations . " What Bacon intended , that he did . The final result is the wisest book of its size in the world , in ...
... thing is ancient . For Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius , if one mark them well , are but Essays , —that is , dispersed Meditations . " What Bacon intended , that he did . The final result is the wisest book of its size in the world , in ...
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... things , and that he drank too much . Therefore many persons refer to him as " Poor Charles Lamb . " Call Byron poor , if you will , who ruined his own happiness and that of many other people ; call Keats poor , who died of consumption ...
... things , and that he drank too much . Therefore many persons refer to him as " Poor Charles Lamb . " Call Byron poor , if you will , who ruined his own happiness and that of many other people ; call Keats poor , who died of consumption ...
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... things in half a dozen half - sentences as he does . His jests scald like tears ; and he probes a question with a play upon words . " Moreover , one cannot well condescend to a man who , although he was full of whims and pranks , of ...
... things in half a dozen half - sentences as he does . His jests scald like tears ; and he probes a question with a play upon words . " Moreover , one cannot well condescend to a man who , although he was full of whims and pranks , of ...
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