Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... original will be appreciated , even in this present English version . Such appreciation of the merit and of the profound thoughtfulness and discriminating delicacy of M. Chasles , will reward the translator for his trouble , which has ...
... original will be appreciated , even in this present English version . Such appreciation of the merit and of the profound thoughtfulness and discriminating delicacy of M. Chasles , will reward the translator for his trouble , which has ...
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... original , is the " Last of the Mohicans . " You would look vainly in the whole library of romance for its parallel . Smollett's or Fielding's sailors , or Scott's beggars have disappeared . The eternal family of heroes , who perpetuate ...
... original , is the " Last of the Mohicans . " You would look vainly in the whole library of romance for its parallel . Smollett's or Fielding's sailors , or Scott's beggars have disappeared . The eternal family of heroes , who perpetuate ...
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... original intelligence , are not to be found in any of these authors , in a sufficient measure to class them among men of genius , Cooper excepted . Doctor Channing , the most eloquent sacred writer of America , has a claim to our ...
... original intelligence , are not to be found in any of these authors , in a sufficient measure to class them among men of genius , Cooper excepted . Doctor Channing , the most eloquent sacred writer of America , has a claim to our ...
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... original writers . Nations , like men , do not discover their proper originality until after long trials . Under the Puritans the literature of the United States is only a servile reproduction of the cross sermons of the Covenanters ...
... original writers . Nations , like men , do not discover their proper originality until after long trials . Under the Puritans the literature of the United States is only a servile reproduction of the cross sermons of the Covenanters ...
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... the desire of obtaining perfect representations of nature . The worse my drawings were , the more beautiful did I see the originals . To have So been torn from the study would have been as death LITERATURE AND ELOQUENCE . 61.
... the desire of obtaining perfect representations of nature . The worse my drawings were , the more beautiful did I see the originals . To have So been torn from the study would have been as death LITERATURE AND ELOQUENCE . 61.
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