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Thomas Gray. I thought Lankes would do as well by Maine . So I brought him up here . I brought him up in November , baiting him with duck shooting and venison roasted out- doors in a seven - below - zero evening with the sunset sky like ...
Thomas Gray. I thought Lankes would do as well by Maine . So I brought him up here . I brought him up in November , baiting him with duck shooting and venison roasted out- doors in a seven - below - zero evening with the sunset sky like ...
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... brought Christmas north . Lankes has brought Gray's Elegy west and south . It was a book of life in its time and place . He makes it a new book of life here and now , for us Americans . He is doing only what we Americans have been doing ...
... brought Christmas north . Lankes has brought Gray's Elegy west and south . It was a book of life in its time and place . He makes it a new book of life here and now , for us Americans . He is doing only what we Americans have been doing ...
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... brought it out now , all new and American . His plow- man drives his horses with his reins around his neck as no English plowman would , and he comes home to a wooden Virginian cabin with pigs under the door- step . His house is wooden ...
... brought it out now , all new and American . His plow- man drives his horses with his reins around his neck as no English plowman would , and he comes home to a wooden Virginian cabin with pigs under the door- step . His house is wooden ...
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