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LITERATURE,

ANCIENT AND MODERN,

WITH

SPECIMENS.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

PETER PARLEY'S TALES.

BOSTON:

BRADBURY, SODEN & CO.

MDCCCXLV.

" 1 1914

CHARLES ELLIOTT PERKINS
MEMORIAL COLLECTION

Entered according to Act of Congress,
in the year 1845,

By S. G. GOODRICH,

In the Clerk's Office of the District
Court of Massachusetts.

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