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Page ix
... trees , the litter of a back yard . That's all . There was snow on the roofs and snow on the cart . But those few lines sparkled and crackled with life - which is what the few lines a good artist makes ought to do . The little scene had ...
... trees , the litter of a back yard . That's all . There was snow on the roofs and snow on the cart . But those few lines sparkled and crackled with life - which is what the few lines a good artist makes ought to do . The little scene had ...
Page xi
... trees sharp as the morning light coming up behind them and putting out the stars . Here was a landscape where everything looks picked up and arranged , even to the stones brought up by the frost in a field . J. J. Lankes got Frost's ...
... trees sharp as the morning light coming up behind them and putting out the stars . Here was a landscape where everything looks picked up and arranged , even to the stones brought up by the frost in a field . J. J. Lankes got Frost's ...
Page xvi
... trees and cows and frame houses . These words are household words of our own , words that we are married and buried by . They make us think of American graveyards and American homeliness and quiet . It is our more southern twilight that ...
... trees and cows and frame houses . These words are household words of our own , words that we are married and buried by . They make us think of American graveyards and American homeliness and quiet . It is our more southern twilight that ...
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