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Page 12 - The Humble Request of His Majesty's Loyall Subjects, the Governor and the Company late gone for New England; to the rest of their Brethren in and of the Church of England...
Page 278 - The Masque of the Gods, 1872. Lars: a Pastoral of Norway, 1873.
Page 268 - The Discovery of the Great West, 1869; The Old Regime in Canada, 1874; Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV, 1877; Montcalm and Wolfe, 1884; A Half Century of Conflict, 1892. After 1879, The Discovery of the Great West (1869) was published as La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West.
Page 235 - Wake Robin. 1871. Winter Sunshine. 1875. Birds and Poets. 1877. Locusts and Wild Honey. 1879. Pepacton. 1881. Fresh Fields. 1884. Signs and Seasons.
Page 250 - Already famous before the war as a newspaper wit, he reached his greatest success when under the pen name of Miles O'Reilly he began using his Civil War experiences in a humorous vein. These writings were collected in The Life and Adventures, Songs, Services, and Speeches of Private Miles O'Reilly (1864) and Baked Meats of the Funeral (1866). He was a facile versifier with a keen sense of straight-faced burlesque.
Page 277 - True Grandeur of Nations, 1845. Fame and Glory, 1847. Orations and Public Addresses, 1850, 1856. The Crime Against Kansas, 1856. Barbarism of Slavery, 1860. Prophetic Voices Concerning America, 1874. Complete Works, 1870-1883. Memoir and Letters, by Edward L. Pierce; Vols.