Library of Southern Literature: BiographyEdwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent Martin & Hoyt Company, 1909 - American literature |
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Page 4671
... Voice of Spring SMITH , FRANCIS HOPKINSON ( 1838– ) The Surprise BY JOHN S. PATTON Night in Venice The One - Legged Goose SMITH , JOHN ( 1579-1631 ) - BY J. A. C. CHANDLER The First Settlement Religion and Ceremony Happy Arrival of ...
... Voice of Spring SMITH , FRANCIS HOPKINSON ( 1838– ) The Surprise BY JOHN S. PATTON Night in Venice The One - Legged Goose SMITH , JOHN ( 1579-1631 ) - BY J. A. C. CHANDLER The First Settlement Religion and Ceremony Happy Arrival of ...
Page 4689
... Voices of the Night " was heard around the world Undoubtedly they reached Schele at Berlin , Bonn , or Greifs- wald . After a brief year in Boston , during which he studied modern Greek , the chair of modern languages in the University ...
... Voices of the Night " was heard around the world Undoubtedly they reached Schele at Berlin , Bonn , or Greifs- wald . After a brief year in Boston , during which he studied modern Greek , the chair of modern languages in the University ...
Page 4717
... voice could be heard through Fulbert's window , tremulous with the songs of an ardent love . It was the world - old story of Faust and Gretchen . Mar- riage , under the laws and customs of those days , would have been fatal to Abélard's ...
... voice could be heard through Fulbert's window , tremulous with the songs of an ardent love . It was the world - old story of Faust and Gretchen . Mar- riage , under the laws and customs of those days , would have been fatal to Abélard's ...
Page 4736
... voice : " He wishes a priest . " I caught the surgeon's eye at that moment , and opening the door wider , he saw the curé about to enter . He whis- pered something to the dying man and then to the girl . Renée raised her eyes as I ...
... voice : " He wishes a priest . " I caught the surgeon's eye at that moment , and opening the door wider , he saw the curé about to enter . He whis- pered something to the dying man and then to the girl . Renée raised her eyes as I ...
Page 4737
... voice than a crow . I took my gayety with me to my quarters , and sat up looking at a black and starless sky , and listening to a restless night - wind until near daylight , all the time re- joicing at Renée's good fortune . What a ...
... voice than a crow . I took my gayety with me to my quarters , and sat up looking at a black and starless sky , and listening to a restless night - wind until near daylight , all the time re- joicing at Renée's good fortune . What a ...
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Page 4906 - Major, you oughter seen ole marsa lookin' for der udder leg ob dat goose! He rolled him ober on de dish, dis way an' dat way, an' den he jabbed dat ole bone-handled caarvin' fork in him an' hel