A Free Lance in the Field of Life and LettersA. Mason, 1874 - 340 pages |
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Page 50
... American community in religion , science , literature , and the arts , the fame of the Lowells is secure . If these anchors should here- after drag in the urgent drift of time , then there is that in the volumes now under review , which ...
... American community in religion , science , literature , and the arts , the fame of the Lowells is secure . If these anchors should here- after drag in the urgent drift of time , then there is that in the volumes now under review , which ...
Page 51
... American books not to be signalized by a notice , of respectful dimensions , in every peri- odical claiming to be , in any degree , an organ of Amer- ican literature . It is not without a sense of pain that we welcome this addition to ...
... American books not to be signalized by a notice , of respectful dimensions , in every peri- odical claiming to be , in any degree , an organ of Amer- ican literature . It is not without a sense of pain that we welcome this addition to ...
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... American Review " were scandalized by it . Professor Felton , we think it was , that conceived a joke about it . He italicized a paraphrase of the poet's figure , which made it more intelligible , and then , if we remember right ...
... American Review " were scandalized by it . Professor Felton , we think it was , that conceived a joke about it . He italicized a paraphrase of the poet's figure , which made it more intelligible , and then , if we remember right ...
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... American Review " of the time affected not to understand its aim ; but assured its author that age would gradually recon- cile him to the world as it was . We have seen an as- semblage of more than ordinarily astute wits fairly at fault ...
... American Review " of the time affected not to understand its aim ; but assured its author that age would gradually recon- cile him to the world as it was . We have seen an as- semblage of more than ordinarily astute wits fairly at fault ...
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... American literary men , to being exclusively a poet . But Mr. Longfellow gave twenty years of his prime to the duties of an arduous col- lege professorship , and we have good testimony that he did not shirk those duties as in the ...
... American literary men , to being exclusively a poet . But Mr. Longfellow gave twenty years of his prime to the duties of an arduous col- lege professorship , and we have good testimony that he did not shirk those duties as in the ...
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