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Hawthorne's Wonder - Book . Holmes ' Poems . Holmes ' Autocrat of the Breakfast Tab16 Homer's Iliad ( Translated ) . Homer's Odyssey ( Translated ) . Hughes ' Tom Brown's School Days . Hugo's Les Miserables . Abridged .
Hawthorne's Wonder - Book . Holmes ' Poems . Holmes ' Autocrat of the Breakfast Tab16 Homer's Iliad ( Translated ) . Homer's Odyssey ( Translated ) . Hughes ' Tom Brown's School Days . Hugo's Les Miserables . Abridged .
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The hapless nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first , and then a claw , With many an ardent wish , She stretched , in vain , to reach the prize . What female heart can gold despise ? What Cat's averse to fish ?
The hapless nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first , and then a claw , With many an ardent wish , She stretched , in vain , to reach the prize . What female heart can gold despise ? What Cat's averse to fish ?
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... turn the torrent's swift - descending flood , To brave the savage rushing from the wood , 90 W 96 100 What wonder if to patient valor trained , 52 GRAY'S POEMS.
... turn the torrent's swift - descending flood , To brave the savage rushing from the wood , 90 W 96 100 What wonder if to patient valor trained , 52 GRAY'S POEMS.
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96 100 What wonder if to patient valor trained , They guard with spirit what by strength they gained ? And while their rocky ramparts round they see , The rough abode of want and liberty , ( As lawless force from confidence will grow ...
96 100 What wonder if to patient valor trained , They guard with spirit what by strength they gained ? And while their rocky ramparts round they see , The rough abode of want and liberty , ( As lawless force from confidence will grow ...
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His horse , who never in that sort Had handled been before , What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more . 95 Away went Gilpin , neck or nought ; Away went hat and wig ; He little dreamt when he set out , Of running such a ...
His horse , who never in that sort Had handled been before , What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more . 95 Away went Gilpin , neck or nought ; Away went hat and wig ; He little dreamt when he set out , Of running such a ...
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| Title | Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard and Other Poems Macmillian's pocket American and English classics |
| Author | Thomas Gray |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1909 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 Jan 2019 |
| Length | 268 pages |
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