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Title: A century of American literature and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Birdsall, William Wilfred, 1854-1909, (from old catalog) ed Jones, Rufus Matthew, 1863- (from old catalog) joint ed
Subjects: American literature
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) The J. C. Winston co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ere in want, and in pain, and familiarwith prison-bars, and the damp, weeping walls ofdungeons. Oh, I have looked with wonder uponthose who, in sorrow and privation, and bodily dis-comfort, and sickness, which is the shadow of death,have worked right on to the accomplishment of theirgreat purposes; toiling much, enduring much, ful-filling much ;—and then, with shattered nerves, andsinews all unstrung, have laid themselves down in thegrave, and slept the sleep of death,—and the worldtalks cf them, while they sleep ! It would seem, indeed, as if all their sufferings hadbut sanctified them ! As if the death-angel, in pass-ing, had touched them with the hem of his garment,and made them holy ! As if the hand of di.sease hadbeen stretched out over them only to make the .signof the cross upon their souls! And as in the sunseclipse we can behold the great stars shining in theheavens, so in this Ufe-eclipse have these men beheldthe lights of the great eternity, burning solemnly antforever!
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