American Literature: An Anthology and Critical Survey, Volume 2Joe Lee Davis, John Towner Frederick, Frank Luther Mott C. Scribner's Sons, 1949 |
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Page 341
... manner of most writers , and tell what it is , but I should be baffled to tell what Tolstoy's manner is ; perhaps he has no manner . This appears to me true of his novels , which , with their vast variety of character and incident , are ...
... manner of most writers , and tell what it is , but I should be baffled to tell what Tolstoy's manner is ; perhaps he has no manner . This appears to me true of his novels , which , with their vast variety of character and incident , are ...
Page 383
... manner , when among people of fair class , and so judicious in his choice of victims , that in the strictly masculine part of the town's life he had come to be explicitly trusted and admired . People called him a thoroughbred . The fear ...
... manner , when among people of fair class , and so judicious in his choice of victims , that in the strictly masculine part of the town's life he had come to be explicitly trusted and admired . People called him a thoroughbred . The fear ...
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... manner to morality , to amusement , to instruction . When it is embodied in the work of the painter ( the sculptor is another affair ! ) you know what it is : it stands there before you , in the honesty of pink and green and a gilt ...
... manner to morality , to amusement , to instruction . When it is embodied in the work of the painter ( the sculptor is another affair ! ) you know what it is : it stands there before you , in the honesty of pink and green and a gilt ...
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