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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... never anything human wore . It was stone , but it seemed sentient . If ever image of stone thought , it was thinking . . . . All who know what pathos there is in memories of days that are accomplished and faces that have vanished ...
... never anything human wore . It was stone , but it seemed sentient . If ever image of stone thought , it was thinking . . . . All who know what pathos there is in memories of days that are accomplished and faces that have vanished ...
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... never seriously disturbed the cult of Mr. Dooley , whose Irish - American witticisms deserve more ex- tended mention . A remarkable type of later slang , that in- vented by an author and yet perfectly intelligible to all alert Americans ...
... never seriously disturbed the cult of Mr. Dooley , whose Irish - American witticisms deserve more ex- tended mention . A remarkable type of later slang , that in- vented by an author and yet perfectly intelligible to all alert Americans ...
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... never knows what is in store . But always she is penetrating and dainty , both intimate and aloof , challenging lively thought on our part while remaining , herself , a charmingly elfish mystery . Her place in American letters will be ...
... never knows what is in store . But always she is penetrating and dainty , both intimate and aloof , challenging lively thought on our part while remaining , herself , a charmingly elfish mystery . Her place in American letters will be ...
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... never sympathized with the occupations of the New England mind in his time , and that his dedication of his art to beauty is not in the tradition of that “ reformatory and didac- tic " section , and that , on the other hand , New York ...
... never sympathized with the occupations of the New England mind in his time , and that his dedication of his art to beauty is not in the tradition of that “ reformatory and didac- tic " section , and that , on the other hand , New York ...
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... never threw off the influence of his best - loved masters , Tennyson and Shelley . The " Immortal Brother " of his Ode to Shelley has left traces in most of his poetical work . But , after all , it is Goethe , rather than Shelley , who ...
... never threw off the influence of his best - loved masters , Tennyson and Shelley . The " Immortal Brother " of his Ode to Shelley has left traces in most of his poetical work . But , after all , it is Goethe , rather than Shelley , who ...
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