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St. Nicholas (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 346

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eir labor, keej)-ing body and soul together with dif-ficulty; a meek, God-fearing race, roughenedand drawn out of shape by toil. With what an intimate insight into the livesof the.se people as well as into their occupationMillet represents them ! He paints them, not asif he were a city gentleman… … JLLLb LKLTUN. his nostrils. But an uncle, who was a priest,had taught him as a boy, so that in his man-hood he read Shakspere and Vergil in theoriginal texts. Therefore, although he was ofthe pea.sant life, he was greater than it, and hebrought to the intemretation of its most inti- 904 HOW TO…

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