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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 114 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 80 0 Browse Search
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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 46 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 38 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 32 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 30 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 20 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], Affairs in the lower Valley (search)
y 9½ o'clock prisoners, wagons, and Confederates were on their way back. The Yankees came on immediately with a force three times our number in infantry and cavalry and six pieces of artillery.--They were so repulsed and kept in check that, after a pursuit of ten miles, they returned, bringing many wounded and dead — among the latter three Captains. But in such a rage — brutes in fury — they avenged themselves on the citizens, making the night hideous and fearful. Byron's Darkness' and Shakespeare's 'Dream of Clarence,' had they been real, would not have been a shade compared with it. The town was fired in eleven places, and naught but the secret watchfulness and vigilance of the men, women, and children — the strong, merciful will of our Heavenly Father, who calmed the night into stillness, and about day-dawn gave us relief in a heavy rain — saved the town from entire conflagration. About 12 o'clock three men — brutes — came banging against our kitchen-door, and would hav