False Stories CorrectedSamuel Wood & Sons, no. 261, Pearl-Street and Samuel S. Wood & Company, no. 212 Market-St., Baltimore, 1822 - African Americans - 41 pages |
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... heads , Fell Hydra's blood on Lerna's lake he sheds ; Grasps Achelous with resistless force , And drags the roaring river to its course ; Binds with loud bellowing and with hideous yell , The monster bull , and threefold dog of hell ...
... heads , Fell Hydra's blood on Lerna's lake he sheds ; Grasps Achelous with resistless force , And drags the roaring river to its course ; Binds with loud bellowing and with hideous yell , The monster bull , and threefold dog of hell ...
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... head and clammy hair , Writhe his weak limbs , and flits his life in air , By steps reverted , o'er the blood dropt fen , He tracks huge Caucus to his murderous den ; Where breathing flames through brazen lips , he fled , And shakes the ...
... head and clammy hair , Writhe his weak limbs , and flits his life in air , By steps reverted , o'er the blood dropt fen , He tracks huge Caucus to his murderous den ; Where breathing flames through brazen lips , he fled , And shakes the ...
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... head ; Fair glows her virgin cheek and modest breast , A panoply of scales deforms the rest ; Her quivering fins and panting gills she hides , But spreads her silver arms upon the tides ; Slow as she sails , her ivory neck she laves ...
... head ; Fair glows her virgin cheek and modest breast , A panoply of scales deforms the rest ; Her quivering fins and panting gills she hides , But spreads her silver arms upon the tides ; Slow as she sails , her ivory neck she laves ...
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... head finely crested with a beautiful plumage , its neck covered with feathers of a gold col- our , and the rest of the body purple , only the tail white , and the eyes sparkling like stars ; they hold that it lives 500 or 600 years in ...
... head finely crested with a beautiful plumage , its neck covered with feathers of a gold col- our , and the rest of the body purple , only the tail white , and the eyes sparkling like stars ; they hold that it lives 500 or 600 years in ...
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... head could be put into their pouch ; but he was an eye - witness to the fact , as practised by the keeper of a Pelican , brought to England in the year 1745 , by Cap . tain Pelly , from the Cape of Good Hope . " The Pelican certainly is ...
... head could be put into their pouch ; but he was an eye - witness to the fact , as practised by the keeper of a Pelican , brought to England in the year 1745 , by Cap . tain Pelly , from the Cape of Good Hope . " The Pelican certainly is ...
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