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 105
... dead water under a towhead ; and then cut young cottonwoods and willows , and hid the raft with them . Then we set out the lines . Next we slid into the river and had a swim , so as to freshen up and cool off ; then we set down on the ...
... dead water under a towhead ; and then cut young cottonwoods and willows , and hid the raft with them . Then we set out the lines . Next we slid into the river and had a swim , so as to freshen up and cool off ; then we set down on the ...
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 565
... dead ! Then , pay the reverence of old days To his dead fame ; Walk backward , with averted gaze , And hide the shame ! " Ichabod , " May 2 , 1850. Whit- tier supplied this note : " This poem was the outcome of the surprise and grief ...
... dead ! Then , pay the reverence of old days To his dead fame ; Walk backward , with averted gaze , And hide the shame ! " Ichabod , " May 2 , 1850. Whit- tier supplied this note : " This poem was the outcome of the surprise and grief ...
Contents
WE LOOK AT OURSELVES AND OUR COUNTRY | 1 |
IN PARTICULAR | 32 |
THINKING CONTINENTALLY | 65 |
Copyright | |
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