American Prose: SelectionsMacmillan, 1898 - 465 páginas |
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... feeling have been reproduced in our prose . - In conclusion it is proper to say that the number and length of the extracts have been determined not so much by a desire to indicate the relative rank of the several authors as by a desire ...
... feeling have been reproduced in our prose . - In conclusion it is proper to say that the number and length of the extracts have been determined not so much by a desire to indicate the relative rank of the several authors as by a desire ...
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... feeling of ownership in it are steadily increasing . During the colonial period much of what was produced here could scarcely be distinguished from the contemporary work of minor British writers , though even Mather and Edwards , to an ...
... feeling of ownership in it are steadily increasing . During the colonial period much of what was produced here could scarcely be distinguished from the contemporary work of minor British writers , though even Mather and Edwards , to an ...
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... feels that national issues hang in the balance , and when he enunciates the principles on which his ideal of freedom rests , that , like Jefferson and Webster , he allows himself the sonority and exaltation of style that are then only ...
... feels that national issues hang in the balance , and when he enunciates the principles on which his ideal of freedom rests , that , like Jefferson and Webster , he allows himself the sonority and exaltation of style that are then only ...
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... feeling emotions of the most elevated kind . It is true that these emotions are moral and intellectual rather than æsthetic in char- acter , yet at times they are æsthetic too , for the sonorous and stately dignity of some of his pages ...
... feeling emotions of the most elevated kind . It is true that these emotions are moral and intellectual rather than æsthetic in char- acter , yet at times they are æsthetic too , for the sonorous and stately dignity of some of his pages ...
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... , to interest all the feelings of humanity in their behalf . Nothing but a punctual payment of their annual allowance can rescue them from the most complicated misery ; and nothing could be a more melancholy 58 AMERICAN PROSE.
... , to interest all the feelings of humanity in their behalf . Nothing but a punctual payment of their annual allowance can rescue them from the most complicated misery ; and nothing could be a more melancholy 58 AMERICAN PROSE.
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