American Literature 1607-1885, 1 tomasG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889 |
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... wrote , -he " wrote too much " ; but the same Emerson , at Longfellow's funeral , remembered him as a " sweet and noble soul , " though the dying sage had forgotten the very name of the dead singer . The critic may admit Longfellow's ...
... wrote , -he " wrote too much " ; but the same Emerson , at Longfellow's funeral , remembered him as a " sweet and noble soul , " though the dying sage had forgotten the very name of the dead singer . The critic may admit Longfellow's ...
xvii psl.
... wrote accounts of American scenes and peoples , -accounts more entertaining than trustworthy ; he must be mentioned , but is he , therefore , our first writer ? When there is a Central African literature in English , will Henry M. Stan ...
... wrote accounts of American scenes and peoples , -accounts more entertaining than trustworthy ; he must be mentioned , but is he , therefore , our first writer ? When there is a Central African literature in English , will Henry M. Stan ...
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... wrote books for the aborigines , as well as about them , and thought it worth while to found colleges and schools for their benefit . They also show why American poets and novelists , in later days , have deemed the Indian worth more ...
... wrote books for the aborigines , as well as about them , and thought it worth while to found colleges and schools for their benefit . They also show why American poets and novelists , in later days , have deemed the Indian worth more ...
58 psl.
... wrote of Edward Coate Pinkney : " It was the misfortune of Mr. Pinkney to have been born too far south . Had he been a New Englander , it is probable that he would have been marked as the first of American lyrists , by that magnanimous ...
... wrote of Edward Coate Pinkney : " It was the misfortune of Mr. Pinkney to have been born too far south . Had he been a New Englander , it is probable that he would have been marked as the first of American lyrists , by that magnanimous ...
69 psl.
... wrote in the time of Bacon and Shakespeare ( one of his letters to " Sir Ffrances Bacon " has been preserved ) we perceive that so rude a writer could hardly hope to do more than in- terest his contemporaries by his matter rather than ...
... wrote in the time of Bacon and Shakespeare ( one of his letters to " Sir Ffrances Bacon " has been preserved ) we perceive that so rude a writer could hardly hope to do more than in- terest his contemporaries by his matter rather than ...
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