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The poets of Connecticut; with biographical sketches

Charles W. Everest · 1847 · Scanned text

136,448 words · about 9 h 33 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1847, author long deceased · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/20008582); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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About this book

Author
Charles W. Everest
Language
English
Published
1847
Length
136,448 words · about 9 h 33 min
Sections
12 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain

 

Contents (12)
  1. Front matter about 8 min
  2. Contents about 1 min
  3. Act Third, Scene vu, Ill Tripoli, 117 about 1 min
  4. Act Fifth, Scene ill, 181 about 44 min
  5. II about 1 min
  6. IV about 1 min
  7. VI about 1 h 31 min
  8. Act Second. Scene I about 1 min
  9. Act Third. Scene V about 1 min
  10. ACT THIRD. SCENE VII Chorus about 1 h 24 min
  11. Act I. Scene III about 6 min
  12. Act II. Scene II about 5 h 35 min

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Front matter

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Contents

Hon. Roger Wolcott, 13

Meditations on Man's First and Fallen Estate, 17

Matthew x : 28, 21

Act Third, Scene vu, Ill Tripoli, 117

Commencement of Service, --------- 118

The Way to be Happy, 119

Village Greatness, -----------121

Lines, suggested by " Childe Harold, " 126

Aurelia, 127

Lines to the Spirit of a Departed Friend, 128

Epitaph on the Rev. Dr. Elizur Goodrich, ------ 129

Epitaph on the Hon. William Cushing, 129

Lines on a Lady's Shedding Tears after Marriage, .... 130 Epigrams, - 130

Selleck Osborn, 131

The Treble Voice, 132

The Sailor, 133

The Ruins, - - - 134

Affectation Rebuked, ---------- 135

The Prophecy, 138

Palestine, - 139

Music of Italy, 140

" Passing Away. " — A Dream, 143

My Child, 145

The Pilgrim Fathers, 147

Dirge of Spurzheim, ----------- 148

Warren's Address, before the Battle of Bunker Hill, ... - 150

Mrs. Emma Willard, -151

Bride-stealing, -- 153

The Theme, - 164

The Treasure, 166

Infidelity, 167

James Abraham Hillhouse, - - 169

Close of the Vision, 174

Hadad — A Dramatic Poem. Act First, Scene III, ... - 175

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