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... perhaps , fittest for ; but here I am a draught - horse , harnessed to a daily drag . I have so much to do with my legs and hoofs , struggling and pulling and kicking , that , if there is anything of the Pegasus in me , I am too much ...
... perhaps , fittest for ; but here I am a draught - horse , harnessed to a daily drag . I have so much to do with my legs and hoofs , struggling and pulling and kicking , that , if there is anything of the Pegasus in me , I am too much ...
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... Perhaps not sooner than a fort- night from tomorrow . the ferment around me . My mind will not be abstracted . I must observe , and think , and feel , and content myself with catching glimpses of things which may be wrought out ...
... Perhaps not sooner than a fort- night from tomorrow . the ferment around me . My mind will not be abstracted . I must observe , and think , and feel , and content myself with catching glimpses of things which may be wrought out ...
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... perhaps the political , ( perhaps the literary and sociologi- cal , ) America goes best about its develop ment its own way - sometimes , to temporary sight , appalling enough . It is the fashion among dilettants and fops ( perhaps I my ...
... perhaps the political , ( perhaps the literary and sociologi- cal , ) America goes best about its develop ment its own way - sometimes , to temporary sight , appalling enough . It is the fashion among dilettants and fops ( perhaps I my ...
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The Settlement of Virginia | 4 |
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS 17931835 | 24 |
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