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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 123 11 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 100 62 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 55 1 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 38 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 30 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 20 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 20 0 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 20 2 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 20 0 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 19 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, The Greek goddesses. (search)
treating with fraternal familiarity a woman so august. Another proof of the delicate appreciation of womanhood among the Greeks is to be found in the exquisite texture of their love-poems,--a treasury from which all later bards have borrowed. Even the prose of the obscure Philostratus gave Ben Jonson nearly every thought and expression in his Drink to me only with thine eyes. e)moi\ de\ mo/nois pro/pine toi=s o)/mmasin. Philostratus, Letter 24. The parallel passages may be found in Cumberland's Observer, No. 74, where they were first pointed out. And if, following Ben Jonson, we wish to know what man can say in a little, we must seek it in such poems as this by Plato, preserved in the Anthology:-- My star, upon the stars thou gazest. Would that I were heaven, that on thee I might look with many eyes! Or this by Julian, on a picture:-- The painter [depicts] Theodota herself. Had he but failed in his art, and given forgetfulness to her mourners! *lh/qhn dw=ken o)duro