 Puerile superstition and exploded manners; Gothic castles and chimeras, are the materials usually employed for this end. The incidents of Indian hostility, and the perils of the western wilderness, are far more suitable; and, for a native of America to...  A History of Literature in America - Página 132de Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 443 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | 1910 - 558 páginas
...English predecessors, by "puerile superstition and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras," but by "the incidents of Indian hostility, and the perils of the Western Wilderness . . . For a native of America to overlook these would admit of no apology." Without losing sight of... | |
 | 1896 - 564 páginas
...the sympathy of the reader by means hitherto unemployed by preceding authors. Puerile superstitions and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras are the materials usually employed for this end." He was going to deal with facts ; to be, in short, a realist. But although he did not use the material... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 498 páginas
...protests against " puerile superstition and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras," and adds : " The incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the western wilderness are far more suitable." All this is admirable, but unfortunately the inherited thoughts and methods of the period hung round... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 páginas
...protests against " puerile superstition and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras," and adds: "The incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the western wilderness are far more suitable." All this is admirable, but unfortunately the inherited thoughts and methods of the period hung round... | |
 | Christabel Forsyth Fiske - 1900 - 52 páginas
...passions and engaging the sympathy of the reader by means hitherto unemployed. Puerile superstitions and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras, are the materials usually employed for such ends. The incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the western wilderness are far more... | |
 | 1900 - 532 páginas
...passions and engaging the sympathy of the reader by means hitherto unemployed. Puerile superstitions and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras, are the materials usually employed for such ends. The incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the wilderness are far more suitable... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1900 - 386 páginas
...richness of the field open to American writers of fiction, and to substitute, as in Edgar Huntley (1801), "the incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the western wilderness " for the puerile terrors of Mrs. Radcliffe and the Castle of Otranto. It was in the fertile field... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1906 - 380 páginas
...of the field open to American writers of fiction, and to substitute, as in Edgar Huntley (1801), " the incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the western wilderness " for the puerile terrors of Mrs. Radcliffe and the Castle of Otranto. It was in the fertile field... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 466 páginas
...protests against " puerile superstition and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras," and adds : " The incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the western wilderness are far more suitable." All this is admirable, but unfortunately the inherited thoughts and methods of the period hung round... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 378 páginas
...protests against " puerile superstition and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras," and adds : " The incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the western wilderness are far more suitable." All this is admirable, but unfortunately the inherited thoughts and methods of the period hung round... | |
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