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Page xi
... clean and white New England houses and stiff and angular men . He got Virginia's mansions , too , the opulent pillars and porticoes , soaring dormers , and the rich shade of verandas . I thought Lankes would do as well by Maine . xi.
... clean and white New England houses and stiff and angular men . He got Virginia's mansions , too , the opulent pillars and porticoes , soaring dormers , and the rich shade of verandas . I thought Lankes would do as well by Maine . xi.
Page xii
... rich wheat and buckwheat of Lancaster County . Anything native , anything American , Lankes is for . Like most great artists , he is for the home town , its people , its houses , its mores . So a slab - sided Ford is as im- portant to ...
... rich wheat and buckwheat of Lancaster County . Anything native , anything American , Lankes is for . Like most great artists , he is for the home town , its people , its houses , its mores . So a slab - sided Ford is as im- portant to ...
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Thomas Gray. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage , And froze the genial current of the soul . Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark. 25.
Thomas Gray. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage , And froze the genial current of the soul . Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark. 25.
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