Statistics for occurrence #1 of “New England” in chapter 7 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:

...ich Poe dreamed in the Fordham cottage, the bay horse and hound and turtle-dove which Thoreau lost long ago and could not find in his hut at Walden, these were something which our later Greeks of the New England Athens esteemed as foolishness.
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
† New England (United States) 12,382 160 0 0 0 user votes
New England (Georgia, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (New Mexico, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (Ohio, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (Ohio, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (Ohio, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (Pennsylvania, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (Pennsylvania, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
New England (West Virginia, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes

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