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229:“Your little volume has been safely delivered to me by your friend Mr G. Macdonald, and I thank you for it. It has given me great pleasure. To paraphrase sacred poetry is the most difficult of all tasks, and it appears to me that you have been more successful in the attempt than any of your predecessors. You may probably have heard that the
233:... was engaged in forming a collection of hymns and sacred pieces, with the hope of having them introduced into our English churches. Some of yours are so well adapted to that object that I will send out a copy of your book to him. … I cannot but wish that talents and feelings such as yours were employed in the ministry of the
362:"There is a poem, which has been a great favorite with me for years, which was first shown to me when a young man, by a friend, and which I afterwards saw and cut from a newspaper, and learned by heart. I would,” he continued, “give a great deal to know who wrote it, but I have never been able to ascertain.”
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Despite having farmed for only five years, he earned the approbation of the intelligent agriculturists in
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British poets, both ancient and contemporary. In 1817 he composed the greater number of the pieces contained in his first work,
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History of Gilead: And Prose and Poetic Writings by George W. Chapman. Third Edition. A POEM: Recited By President Lincoln
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William Knox. Designs by Miss L. B. Humphrey. Engraved by John Andrew & Son
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The Lonely Hearth, The Songs of Israel, Harp of Zion, and Other Poems by
William Knox. A Sketch Of The Life Of WILLIAM KNOX
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