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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... Mark Van Doren , Copy- right 1939 , 1954 by Mark Van Doren ; " Beauty Is , " " Envy the Old , " and " An- other Pride " from Spring Birth and Other Poems by Mark Van Doren , Copyright 1953 by Mark Van Doren and " Wit " from Collected Poems ...
... Mark Van Doren , Copy- right 1939 , 1954 by Mark Van Doren ; " Beauty Is , " " Envy the Old , " and " An- other Pride " from Spring Birth and Other Poems by Mark Van Doren , Copyright 1953 by Mark Van Doren and " Wit " from Collected Poems ...
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... MARK VAN DOREN , Hawthorne , 1949 Lord of San Simeon . ANON . , Sobriquet of William Randolph Hearst , derived from his holdings of 200,000 acres between the California Coast and the Santa Lucia Mountains . I wish it had been possible ...
... MARK VAN DOREN , Hawthorne , 1949 Lord of San Simeon . ANON . , Sobriquet of William Randolph Hearst , derived from his holdings of 200,000 acres between the California Coast and the Santa Lucia Mountains . I wish it had been possible ...
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... MARK VAN DOREN The dullest man sees the most things as the same ; the livest man sees the most differences , and a completely live man tends . . . to find in even random objects a precious order and degree of being , as if the universe ...
... MARK VAN DOREN The dullest man sees the most things as the same ; the livest man sees the most differences , and a completely live man tends . . . to find in even random objects a precious order and degree of being , as if the universe ...
Contents
WE LOOK AT OURSELVES AND OUR COUNTRY | 1 |
of Americans | 9 |
a Look at the Country | 65 |
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