The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 21John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker Duke University Press, 1922 |
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... a Minor Poet ... Do We Need More Literature ?. Book Reviews .......... ..Louis C. Zucker .. ..259 ..... H. Houston Peckham ....... ..270 ..275 Cooperative Production and the Economics of Agriculture National Elements in.
... a Minor Poet ... Do We Need More Literature ?. Book Reviews .......... ..Louis C. Zucker .. ..259 ..... H. Houston Peckham ....... ..270 ..275 Cooperative Production and the Economics of Agriculture National Elements in.
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... literature have been content to accept the old quotation as merely another fine senti- ment , true but hackneyed , and a little rhetorical for a matter- of - fact age . The words have seldom been suspected of any practical value . Yet ...
... literature have been content to accept the old quotation as merely another fine senti- ment , true but hackneyed , and a little rhetorical for a matter- of - fact age . The words have seldom been suspected of any practical value . Yet ...
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... literature , defending the reputation of his race , but he remarks significantly that he has not confined his interest to his own race . As financial agent for Fisk University he served his race in a practical capacity , but he is not a ...
... literature , defending the reputation of his race , but he remarks significantly that he has not confined his interest to his own race . As financial agent for Fisk University he served his race in a practical capacity , but he is not a ...
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... literature ; he once boasted that while at Craigenputtock he had read everything ; and Past and Present is a mosaic of allusion . Sometimes an allusion- such as the Behemoth of Chaos - caps a sentence , and is not employed again . More ...
... literature ; he once boasted that while at Craigenputtock he had read everything ; and Past and Present is a mosaic of allusion . Sometimes an allusion- such as the Behemoth of Chaos - caps a sentence , and is not employed again . More ...
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... literature and history : Colum- bus , Thersites , Mahomet , Cromwell , Wallace , Igdrasil , Byron and Pilate , King John , Hydra - Coil , Jotuns , Rhadamanthus , Burns and Kilkenny Cate ! " " The Iliad and Lakenheath eels ! " The ...
... literature and history : Colum- bus , Thersites , Mahomet , Cromwell , Wallace , Igdrasil , Byron and Pilate , King John , Hydra - Coil , Jotuns , Rhadamanthus , Burns and Kilkenny Cate ! " " The Iliad and Lakenheath eels ! " The ...
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Page 372 - with Ariel's telling Prospero a few minutes after the storm that the rest of the king's fleet “all have met again And are upon the Mediterranean flote, Bound sadly home for Naples, Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd And his great person perish.”
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