Literary Leaders of AmericaChautauqua Press, 1904 - 316 pages |
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Page 14
... never got over the loss . He remained a bach- elor throughout his life , and long years afterward referred to this early sorrow as still an unhealed wound of the heart . It is not unduly imaginative to see running through the charm of ...
... never got over the loss . He remained a bach- elor throughout his life , and long years afterward referred to this early sorrow as still an unhealed wound of the heart . It is not unduly imaginative to see running through the charm of ...
Page 15
... never having taken the venture with much seriousness . The ever memorable and delightful " History of New York , " commonly called the " Knickerbocker History , " because attributed in the preface and by cunningly con- cocted advance ...
... never having taken the venture with much seriousness . The ever memorable and delightful " History of New York , " commonly called the " Knickerbocker History , " because attributed in the preface and by cunningly con- cocted advance ...
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... never lost its distinctively American quality . Henry James by such a residence has ceased to be an American author in any sense . Bret Harte , on the other hand , in a similar resi- dence , continued to the day of his death to write ...
... never lost its distinctively American quality . Henry James by such a residence has ceased to be an American author in any sense . Bret Harte , on the other hand , in a similar resi- dence , continued to the day of his death to write ...
Page 35
... never creep by . The very ticking of the clock became irksome . At length the stillness of the house was interrupted by the ring- ing of a bell . Shortly after , I heard the voice of a waiter at the bar : " The stout gentleman in No. 13 ...
... never creep by . The very ticking of the clock became irksome . At length the stillness of the house was interrupted by the ring- ing of a bell . Shortly after , I heard the voice of a waiter at the bar : " The stout gentleman in No. 13 ...
Page 52
... never would or could say , in view of what they are Leatherstocking performs miracles of marksman- ship that no sportsman can accept ; he speaks on one page in the uncouth dialect of the trapper , on another in the best literary English ...
... never would or could say , in view of what they are Leatherstocking performs miracles of marksman- ship that no sportsman can accept ; he speaks on one page in the uncouth dialect of the trapper , on another in the best literary English ...
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