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... story , misunderstands the relative values and gives to those early writers , tentative , feeble , and non- literary as they mostly were , an exaggerated importance in the total effect . In the present volume it is desired to avoid this ...
... story , misunderstands the relative values and gives to those early writers , tentative , feeble , and non- literary as they mostly were , an exaggerated importance in the total effect . In the present volume it is desired to avoid this ...
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... story and , indeed , regard Smith's state- ments in general with skepticism has no effect upon the affectionate interest in the dramatic Pocahontas scene . As affairs in Virginia became settled and a genteel plan- tation life was ...
... story and , indeed , regard Smith's state- ments in general with skepticism has no effect upon the affectionate interest in the dramatic Pocahontas scene . As affairs in Virginia became settled and a genteel plan- tation life was ...
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... story of the born man of letters trying a profession which has stood a sort of nurse to literary men innumerable , literature inevitably weaning them from Coke and Black- stone . Irving , like Lowell later , cared naught for the law ...
... story of the born man of letters trying a profession which has stood a sort of nurse to literary men innumerable , literature inevitably weaning them from Coke and Black- stone . Irving , like Lowell later , cared naught for the law ...
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... stories that spoke alone of the native soil . To retain the domestic flavor under such circumstances is as well for an author as for a grape or pear . Everywhere he went abroad Irving was received with cordiality and kindness : he was ...
... stories that spoke alone of the native soil . To retain the domestic flavor under such circumstances is as well for an author as for a grape or pear . Everywhere he went abroad Irving was received with cordiality and kindness : he was ...
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... stories than for the essays , of which the Stratford paper is a classic ex- ample . Tourists who visit the Red Horse ... story ; it would hardly be too much to say that he created the short tale in English . Dickens wrote this form , now ...
... stories than for the essays , of which the Stratford paper is a classic ex- ample . Tourists who visit the Red Horse ... story ; it would hardly be too much to say that he created the short tale in English . Dickens wrote this form , now ...
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Literary Leaders of America: A Class-book on American Literature Richard Burton Visualização completa - 1904 |
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