Anglo-American Literature and MannersC. Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... land had been cleared upon the borders of the Atlantic , that a sort of literature was born in America . Feeble , timid , imitative , with no pretension to sublimity or passion , a stranger to greatness , half rustic , half citizer ...
... land had been cleared upon the borders of the Atlantic , that a sort of literature was born in America . Feeble , timid , imitative , with no pretension to sublimity or passion , a stranger to greatness , half rustic , half citizer ...
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... land , than to discharge her obligations of gratitude ! Is there any severer calamity than that which has befallen Lafayetto ? Does any more glaring injustico attract the attention of Europe ; I speak to you of glory , yet I know a more ...
... land , than to discharge her obligations of gratitude ! Is there any severer calamity than that which has befallen Lafayetto ? Does any more glaring injustico attract the attention of Europe ; I speak to you of glory , yet I know a more ...
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... land he has served . SECTION VII . BROCKDEN BROWN - WASHINGTON IRVING . Morris is very like a clever English naval officer , min- gling in the good society of the XVIIIth century ; Jonathan Edwards like a Scottish theologian of the ...
... land he has served . SECTION VII . BROCKDEN BROWN - WASHINGTON IRVING . Morris is very like a clever English naval officer , min- gling in the good society of the XVIIIth century ; Jonathan Edwards like a Scottish theologian of the ...
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... land . And what a civiliza- tion ! What a land ! So vast and wild an aspect ! So gigantic a nature ! There is something strange in this strife of our industries , of our arts , of our ideas , transplanted to a new soil , forced to ...
... land . And what a civiliza- tion ! What a land ! So vast and wild an aspect ! So gigantic a nature ! There is something strange in this strife of our industries , of our arts , of our ideas , transplanted to a new soil , forced to ...
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... land reflects itself in his books as in a mirror . For his compatriots , Cooper was the Homer of their civiliza- tion ; the bard who perpetuated their glory . To Europeans he gave a pleasure till then unknown . I have not concealed his ...
... land reflects itself in his books as in a mirror . For his compatriots , Cooper was the Homer of their civiliza- tion ; the bard who perpetuated their glory . To Europeans he gave a pleasure till then unknown . I have not concealed his ...
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