Southland Writers: Biographical and Critical Sketches of the Living Female Writers of the South. With Extracts from Their Writings, Volumen 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1870 - 973 páginas These biographical sketches of over forty female authors of the Southern States are prefaced by an interesting discussion of the literary phases of the South. |
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... smiles , and tears , And visions richly bound ; And lights , such as alone may shine Above a youth - a love divine . The light of smiles that sent a gleam Like sunshine o'er our track ; The light of eyes , that , like a dream , Must ...
... smiles , and tears , And visions richly bound ; And lights , such as alone may shine Above a youth - a love divine . The light of smiles that sent a gleam Like sunshine o'er our track ; The light of eyes , that , like a dream , Must ...
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... smile of more than womanish sweetness , — now wearing an expression of almost wolfish fierceness , or the despairing anguish of a doomed and hopeless soul . These mobile features , and especially that flexible mouth , indicated a nature ...
... smile of more than womanish sweetness , — now wearing an expression of almost wolfish fierceness , or the despairing anguish of a doomed and hopeless soul . These mobile features , and especially that flexible mouth , indicated a nature ...
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... smiles , the mourner rises from thy sustaining ministry , and through her household , or the crowded streets , or the homes of others , pursues her quiet way ! She speaks of common things , she whose whole life is a secret tragedy ! Her ...
... smiles , the mourner rises from thy sustaining ministry , and through her household , or the crowded streets , or the homes of others , pursues her quiet way ! She speaks of common things , she whose whole life is a secret tragedy ! Her ...
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... smiles quivered across her face ; but when she spoke to me she was calm , and sad , and deter- mined , as one who rises from a last vigil by a coffin now closed forever , stamped with the great seal of the inevitable . ( 6 Lilian ...
... smiles quivered across her face ; but when she spoke to me she was calm , and sad , and deter- mined , as one who rises from a last vigil by a coffin now closed forever , stamped with the great seal of the inevitable . ( 6 Lilian ...
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... smile ; greenish - gray eyes , of singular shape and opaline variety of hue and expres- sion ; a slender , oval face ; a long , lithe throat ; an outstretched , meagre neck , lustrous with pearl - powder and pitiably bare ; a shrill and ...
... smile ; greenish - gray eyes , of singular shape and opaline variety of hue and expres- sion ; a slender , oval face ; a long , lithe throat ; an outstretched , meagre neck , lustrous with pearl - powder and pitiably bare ; a shrill and ...
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