Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Bryant” in chapter 23 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises:
...ely colonial life; they prepared the way for the vast modern growth of colleges, schools, and libraries in this country, and indirectly helped that birth of a literature which gave us Irving, Cooper, Bryant , and the North American Review ; and culminated later in the brilliant Boston circle of authors, almost all of whom were Harvard men, and all of whom had felt the Harvard influence.
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