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In the same year, Roxani Samourkasi, then 13 years old, published a Greek version of Solomon Gessner's Erastus, which she dedicated to her father as a token of filial reverence and piety.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Gessner's piece is an exercise in one man's odd-ball story being generalized to the point of absurdity.
America's "literary flowering" was "a rebellion against what was thought of as academic, effete and indoors-y in English writing." Ann Althouse 2008
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If you've found yourself feeling a bit oppressed by the nature-writing pious — say, if you're a Unitarian Universalist minister and just can't bring yourself to read "Wild Geese" one more time — read the rest of Gessner's essay.
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If you've found yourself feeling a bit oppressed by the nature-writing pious — say, if you're a Unitarian Universalist minister and just can't bring yourself to read "Wild Geese" one more time — read the rest of Gessner's essay.
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I may here refer to Facciolati's _Dictionary, voce_ "Ratumena Porta," as well as Gessner's.
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Fontaine's Fables, Gessner's Idylls, Don Quixote, and noticed several odd volumes of the Picturesque Magazine.
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If I have interfered, it was at my friend Gessner's wish.
Aladdin of London or, Lodestar Max Pemberton 1906
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A cunning foresight, added to a fecund imagination and a fine taste for all _chroniques scandaleuses_, led him to determine that Alban Kennedy might yet inherit the bulk of Gessner's fortune and become the plumpest of all possible pigeons.
Aladdin of London or, Lodestar Max Pemberton 1906
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Gessner's heart sank again at the hint of further requests subsequently to come.
Aladdin of London or, Lodestar Max Pemberton 1906
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Gessner's mind while he framed an answer which should avert the final hour of reckoning and give him that opportunity for the counter-stroke which might yet save all.
Aladdin of London or, Lodestar Max Pemberton 1906
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