Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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Page 40
... shores ; his imagination was cradled in citizen and peaceful memories . Never had he dreamed of far forests ; nor of the plumes that fall from the golden - robed flamingo , nor of the desert flower , nor of the columns of wild rock ...
... shores ; his imagination was cradled in citizen and peaceful memories . Never had he dreamed of far forests ; nor of the plumes that fall from the golden - robed flamingo , nor of the desert flower , nor of the columns of wild rock ...
Page 49
... shore , deserted , unknown . He is the most positive novelist that ever existed . He anatomises without idealizing . Sometimes his portraits bor- der on caricature ; his defect is that he exaggerates and seeks out too curiously their ...
... shore , deserted , unknown . He is the most positive novelist that ever existed . He anatomises without idealizing . Sometimes his portraits bor- der on caricature ; his defect is that he exaggerates and seeks out too curiously their ...
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... shores . I was taught to look upon them as flowers yet in the bud . I watched their open- ing , to see how nature had provided each different species with eyes , either open at birth , or closed for some time after ; to trace the slow ...
... shores . I was taught to look upon them as flowers yet in the bud . I watched their open- ing , to see how nature had provided each different species with eyes , either open at birth , or closed for some time after ; to trace the slow ...
Page 63
... shores , my father , in his desire of proving my friend through life , gave me what Americans call a " beautiful plantation , " refreshed during the summer heats by the waters of the Schuylkill river , and traversed by a creek named ...
... shores , my father , in his desire of proving my friend through life , gave me what Americans call a " beautiful plantation , " refreshed during the summer heats by the waters of the Schuylkill river , and traversed by a creek named ...
Page 64
... shores of the Atlantic . Years were spent away from my family , yet , reader , will you believe it , I had no other object in view than simply to enjoy the sight of nature . Never for a moment did I conceive the hope of becoming in any ...
... shores of the Atlantic . Years were spent away from my family , yet , reader , will you believe it , I had no other object in view than simply to enjoy the sight of nature . Never for a moment did I conceive the hope of becoming in any ...
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