The North American Review, Volume 97Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1863 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... writer above all par- allels in his kind . When we consider Jean Paul as an artist , we find a singular limitation in his genius . He has a gigantic creative power combined with a diminutive shaping power . He can grasp and associate ...
... writer above all par- allels in his kind . When we consider Jean Paul as an artist , we find a singular limitation in his genius . He has a gigantic creative power combined with a diminutive shaping power . He can grasp and associate ...
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... writer , we have to distinguish two modes in which he acts on others : first , the teaching which he unconsciously imparts , the silent but potent effluence of his character , of his secret spirit and aims ; and , secondly , the morals ...
... writer , we have to distinguish two modes in which he acts on others : first , the teaching which he unconsciously imparts , the silent but potent effluence of his character , of his secret spirit and aims ; and , secondly , the morals ...
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... writer to give pleasure by his art , but to give in- struction by his insight and power . It is not his duty to gratify an æsthetic interest which his readers may feel in one of the personages of his romance ; it may , on the contrary ...
... writer to give pleasure by his art , but to give in- struction by his insight and power . It is not his duty to gratify an æsthetic interest which his readers may feel in one of the personages of his romance ; it may , on the contrary ...
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... writer has been informed by Charles C. Jewett , Esq . , the Superintendent of the Public Library of Boston , that the Library of Congress , at Washington , con- tains a valuable collection of county histories , and that the Astor ...
... writer has been informed by Charles C. Jewett , Esq . , the Superintendent of the Public Library of Boston , that the Library of Congress , at Washington , con- tains a valuable collection of county histories , and that the Astor ...
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... writers who should know better . The eldest son of every peer of the rank of an Earl is known , during his father's lifetime , by the second title of the latter . The eldest son of the Duke of Devonshire is called Marquess of Hartington ...
... writers who should know better . The eldest son of every peer of the rank of an Earl is known , during his father's lifetime , by the second title of the latter . The eldest son of the Duke of Devonshire is called Marquess of Hartington ...
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