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Page vii
... fact , and as an uncle , say , they are apt to walk all over our corns and ideas in of disconcerting directions . any number I had an uncle who was a genius . He was a genius by accident . Some geniuses are . The greatness thrust upon ...
... fact , and as an uncle , say , they are apt to walk all over our corns and ideas in of disconcerting directions . any number I had an uncle who was a genius . He was a genius by accident . Some geniuses are . The greatness thrust upon ...
Page viii
... fact , he didn't do much more except beget a few more boys with square heads like his own . But he is one of the great names in our family . And he will last as long as the story of the ill - starred City of Portland lasts and there are ...
... fact , he didn't do much more except beget a few more boys with square heads like his own . But he is one of the great names in our family . And he will last as long as the story of the ill - starred City of Portland lasts and there are ...
Page xiii
... fact that he had never done what I think ought to be the Great Seal of these United States instead of the ancient Roman bird of that happens to perch on our state . It is the most American design I can think of . It is the symbol of ...
... fact that he had never done what I think ought to be the Great Seal of these United States instead of the ancient Roman bird of that happens to perch on our state . It is the most American design I can think of . It is the symbol of ...
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alive angles artists autumn leaves baited barns beauty beneath Blake block blush boat brook brought Brushing bulge carpenter chewing City of Portland clouds color comes home COUNTRY CHURCH COUNTRY CHURCH YARD COUNTRY CHURCHYARD cutting discovered J. J. Lankes door E'en e'er ELEGY WRITTEN Elizabethan elms England English eyes feather footprints Forbade frozen geniuses gingerbread graver graveyards Gray Gray's ELEGY Hampden hands happen HARPER & BROTHERS Heav'n heave hired houses housewife immortal Italian J. J. Lankes's ladies leaf light lines look mediaeval missed modern American morning Negroes never o'er once pants paper pity and peace plowman poem Poetry printing press right places Robert Frost roofs ruin safely dead sculpture shed shirt sleeves shudder smiling snow soul stick take pains talk tear things thumb took trees TRISTRAM COFFIN Trying to live uncle village Virginian Williamsburg wintry wood woodcut wooden words YARD yonder