Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 865
... less girt in by caste than the Englishman . These differ- ences , obvious in life , are visible also in literature . We feel now , even if we do not care to define , the unlikeness of the writing of the British authors to the writing of ...
... less girt in by caste than the Englishman . These differ- ences , obvious in life , are visible also in literature . We feel now , even if we do not care to define , the unlikeness of the writing of the British authors to the writing of ...
Page 866
... less ; and we hold it on the same terms that our cousins do . We have the rights of ownership , and the responsibilities also , exactly as they have , and to exactly the same extent . The English language belongs to us also ; it is ours ...
... less ; and we hold it on the same terms that our cousins do . We have the rights of ownership , and the responsibilities also , exactly as they have , and to exactly the same extent . The English language belongs to us also ; it is ours ...
Page 870
... less interesting to us Americans , not the less inspiring . When an English author suggested to Sainte - Beuve that he did . not think Lamartine an important poet , the great French critic suavely answered , " He is important to us ...
... less interesting to us Americans , not the less inspiring . When an English author suggested to Sainte - Beuve that he did . not think Lamartine an important poet , the great French critic suavely answered , " He is important to us ...
Page 873
... - ride of Ichabod Crane and of the Head- less Horseman . Aye , it was thereabout that tragedy came off too . " Down this bit of road the old horse Gunpowder . ' came thundering : there away - Brom Bones with his IRVING AS AUTHOR AND MAN ...
... - ride of Ichabod Crane and of the Head- less Horseman . Aye , it was thereabout that tragedy came off too . " Down this bit of road the old horse Gunpowder . ' came thundering : there away - Brom Bones with his IRVING AS AUTHOR AND MAN ...
Page 878
... less , to the glad young days when he had known the beau- ties of Seville and Cordova . Indeed , there was no epi- sode in his life of which he was more prone to talk , than of that which carried him in his Spanish studies to the ...
... less , to the glad young days when he had known the beau- ties of Seville and Cordova . Indeed , there was no epi- sode in his life of which he was more prone to talk , than of that which carried him in his Spanish studies to the ...
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