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The Stronger: A Play in One Act - Page 56
by August Strindberg - 1906 - 4 pages
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Irvingiana: A Memorial of Washington Irving

Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1860 - 82 pages
...tenderness, its atmosphere of reverie, nay, even by its gray-brown covers, the shaded letters of the titles, and the fair, clear type, which seemed an outward symbol of the style. How many delightful books the same author has given us, written before and since — volumes...
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Irvingiana: A Memorial of Washington Irving

Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1860 - 76 pages
...tenderness, its atmosphere of reverie, nay, even by its gray-brown covers, the shaded letters of the titles, and the fair, clear type, which seemed an outward symbol of the style. How many delightful books the same author has given us, written before and since — volumes...
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The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 868 pages
...tenderness, its atmosphere of reverie — nay, even by its gray-brown covers, the shaded letters of the titles, and the fair, clear type, which seemed an outward symbol of the style. How many delightful books the same author has given us, written before and since, — volumes...
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Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: With Extracts from His ..., Volume 1

Samuel Longfellow - 1886 - 480 pages
...delight, spell-bound by its pleasant humor, its melancholy tenderness, its atmosphere of revery, — nay, even by its gray-brown covers, the shaded letters...type, which seemed an outward symbol of its style. — How many delightful books the same author has given us. ... Yet still the charm of the Sketch-Book...
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Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: With Extracts from His ..., Volume 1

Samuel Longfellow - 1886 - 472 pages
...delight, spell-bound by its pleasant humor, its melancholy tenderness, its atmosphere of revery, — nay, even by its gray-brown covers, the shaded letters...fair clear type, which seemed an outward symbol of ite style. — How many delightful books the same author has given us. ... Yet still the charm of the...
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The Scottish Review, Volume 8

1886 - 458 pages
...pleasant humour, its melancholy tenderness, its atmosphere of reverie — nay, even by its grey-brown covers, the shaded letters of its titles, and the...type which seemed an outward symbol of its style. How many delightful books the same author has given us. ... Yet still the charm of the sketch book...
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Birds of passage. Flower-de-luce. A book of sonnets. The masque of Pandora ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 348 pages
...its atmosphere of revery, — nay, even by its grmybrown covers, the shaded letters of its title*, and the fair clear type, which seemed an outward symbol of its style. How many delightful books the same author has given us, written before and since, — volumes of history...
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Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: With Extracts from His ..., Volume 1

Samuel Longfellow - 1891 - 492 pages
...delight, spell-bound by its pleasant humor, its melancholy tenderness, its atmosphere of revery, — nay, even by its gray-brown covers, the shaded letters...type, which seemed an outward symbol of its style. — How many delightful books the same author has given us. . . . Yet still the charm of the Sketch-Book...
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Essays from Reviews

George Stewart - 1892 - 184 pages
...pleasant humour, its melancholy tenderness, its atmosphere of reverie—nay, even by its greybrown covers, the shaded letters of its titles, and the...type which seemed an outward symbol of its style. How many delightful books the same author has given us Yet still the charm of the Sketch Book remains...
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Voices of the Night, and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1893 - 360 pages
...delight, spell-bound by its pleasant humor, its melancholy tenderness, its atmosphere of revery — nay, even by its gray-brown covers, the shaded letters...type, which seemed an outward symbol of its style." Not less poetically nurturing must have been the situation of the old Wadsworth mansion, then on the...
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