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" She very early discovered a fondness for rhyme, and took pleasure in clothing her friendly and pious sentiments in a poetic dress. And, what is very remarkable, though strictly true, she composed her pieces, generally, while engaged in the common business... "
Poems, on Various Subjects - Page 3
by Isabella Oliver - 1805 - 220 pages
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Supplement to the Cyclopędia of American Literature: Including Obituaries ...

Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American literature - 1866 - 176 pages
...performance. "She is," says the writer, "the daughter of James Oliver, Esq., long an inhabitant of Cumberland County, a worthy citizen, an eminent mathematician,...never received any thing more than a common English education. She very early discovered a fondness for rhyme, and took pleasure in clothing her friendly...
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The Anthony Memorial: A Catalogue of the Harris Collection of American ...

Brown University. Library, Henry Bowen Anthony, Albert Gorton Greene, Caleb Fiske Harris, John Calvin Stockbridge - American poetry - 1886 - 362 pages
...OLIVER, (I.) Miss Isabella Oliver was the danghter of James Oliver, Esq., of Cumberland county, Penn., "a worthy citizen, an eminent mathematician, of whom...she was deprived when about fourteen years of age." Her opportunities for acquiring an education wore of the most limited character, and these poems were...
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