The Cambridge History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. IIWilliam Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921 |
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... interest in him , for the reason that I have known him before - met him on the river . " This chapter of his experience was ended abruptly by the out- break of the Civil War and the closing of the river . His brief and inglorious part ...
... interest in him , for the reason that I have known him before - met him on the river . " This chapter of his experience was ended abruptly by the out- break of the Civil War and the closing of the river . His brief and inglorious part ...
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... interest : his valiant assumption of his debts , his great tour , his growing habit of commenting on public affairs , the publication of sec- tions of his autobiography , his domestic bereavements , and the foreign tributes and honours ...
... interest : his valiant assumption of his debts , his great tour , his growing habit of commenting on public affairs , the publication of sec- tions of his autobiography , his domestic bereavements , and the foreign tributes and honours ...
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... interest . He describes what meets his eye with rapid , vivid , unconventional eloquence . He sketches the historical background in a highly personal fashion and gives to his interlarded legends an individual twist . While he imparts a ...
... interest . He describes what meets his eye with rapid , vivid , unconventional eloquence . He sketches the historical background in a highly personal fashion and gives to his interlarded legends an individual twist . While he imparts a ...
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... interest , but quite resolutely how these objects of interest strike a thoroughly honest Western- American eye . He is obliged to report that the barbers , billiard tables , and hotel accommodations of Paris are inferior ; that the ...
... interest , but quite resolutely how these objects of interest strike a thoroughly honest Western- American eye . He is obliged to report that the barbers , billiard tables , and hotel accommodations of Paris are inferior ; that the ...
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... interests whose humorous writing was origi- nally done merely for his own amusement . Charles Godfrey Leland ( 1824-1903 ) , a native of Philadelphia and a graduate of Princeton , after three years of student life at Heidelberg and ...
... interests whose humorous writing was origi- nally done merely for his own amusement . Charles Godfrey Leland ( 1824-1903 ) , a native of Philadelphia and a graduate of Princeton , after three years of student life at Heidelberg and ...
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