The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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Page 10
... American would write , not in the manner of a German or a Frenchman . This brings us to a consid- eration of the sentence , which reveals in its construction the author's habit of mind . When we speak of the pon- derous , antithetical ...
... American would write , not in the manner of a German or a Frenchman . This brings us to a consid- eration of the sentence , which reveals in its construction the author's habit of mind . When we speak of the pon- derous , antithetical ...
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... Americans were too busy conquering their continent to write essays before the late eighteenth century , at which period , however , they began to make up for lost time . Induced by characteristic impulse " to try any- thing once ...
... Americans were too busy conquering their continent to write essays before the late eighteenth century , at which period , however , they began to make up for lost time . Induced by characteristic impulse " to try any- thing once ...
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... America , toiling through her majestic forests and over her wide , rugged plains , was taught in his close intimacy ... American does not glory in this denial as linked with the life of our glorious Lincoln ! Hence , in the speech of ...
... America , toiling through her majestic forests and over her wide , rugged plains , was taught in his close intimacy ... American does not glory in this denial as linked with the life of our glorious Lincoln ! Hence , in the speech of ...
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... American language as it is really used by no small number of our countrymen . Granting that the truth of art is something nobler than mere truth to fact and that Josh Billings indeed violates every law of the literary , we cannot but ...
... American language as it is really used by no small number of our countrymen . Granting that the truth of art is something nobler than mere truth to fact and that Josh Billings indeed violates every law of the literary , we cannot but ...
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... American situation . There seems to be sincerity as well as irony in this passage : " The temper and character which prevail in our colonies are , I am afraid , unalterable by any human art . We cannot , I fear , falsify the pedigree of ...
... American situation . There seems to be sincerity as well as irony in this passage : " The temper and character which prevail in our colonies are , I am afraid , unalterable by any human art . We cannot , I fear , falsify the pedigree of ...
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