The American Treasury, 1455-1955Clifton Fadiman Harper, 1955 - 1108 pages Anthology of quotations by Americans, or about America, classified by subject. |
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Page 530
... dead - dead for twenty years in Milwaukee . THE AMERICANS ARE A QUEER PEOPLE : THEY CAN'T PLAY . Americans rush to work as soon as they get up . They want their work as soon as they wake . It is a stimulant : the only one they're not ...
... dead - dead for twenty years in Milwaukee . THE AMERICANS ARE A QUEER PEOPLE : THEY CAN'T PLAY . Americans rush to work as soon as they get up . They want their work as soon as they wake . It is a stimulant : the only one they're not ...
Page 574
... dead , a man divine Here , coffin that slowly passes , as myself is dead , I look where he lies white - faced and still in the coffin - I draw near , Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin ...
... dead , a man divine Here , coffin that slowly passes , as myself is dead , I look where he lies white - faced and still in the coffin - I draw near , Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin ...
Page 609
... dead , And dead will stare and sting forever . " Beauty " And here face down beneath the sun And here upon earth's noonward height To feel the always coming on The always rising of the night To feel creep up the curving east The earthly ...
... dead , And dead will stare and sting forever . " Beauty " And here face down beneath the sun And here upon earth's noonward height To feel the always coming on The always rising of the night To feel creep up the curving east The earthly ...
Contents
IN GENERAL | 9 |
IN PARTICULAR | 32 |
THINKING CONTINENTALLY | 65 |
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