Masterpieces of American Literature: Franklin, Irving, Bryant, Webster, Everett, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Whittier, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Thoreau, O'Reilly : with Biographical Sketches and PortraitsHoughton Mifflin, 1891 - 462 páginas |
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... England for its higher literature . It had hardly begun to find materials for literature in its own past or in its aspects of nature , yet there was a very positive ele- ment in life which resented foreign interference . There were thus ...
... England for its higher literature . It had hardly begun to find materials for literature in its own past or in its aspects of nature , yet there was a very positive ele- ment in life which resented foreign interference . There were thus ...
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... England , made his name at once known to those who had the making there of literary reputations . Irving himself was born of a Scottish father and English mother , who had come to this country only twenty years before . He was but ...
... England , made his name at once known to those who had the making there of literary reputations . Irving himself was born of a Scottish father and English mother , who had come to this country only twenty years before . He was but ...
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... England and sent home to America for publication . He laid the scene of the story in the Kaatskills , but he drew upon his imagination and the reports of others for the scen- ery , not visiting the spot until 1833. The story is not ab ...
... England and sent home to America for publication . He laid the scene of the story in the Kaatskills , but he drew upon his imagination and the reports of others for the scen- ery , not visiting the spot until 1833. The story is not ab ...
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... England - and that , instead of being a subject of his Majesty George the Third , he was now a free citizen of the United States . Rip , in fact , was no politician ; the changes of states and empires made but little impression on him ...
... England - and that , instead of being a subject of his Majesty George the Third , he was now a free citizen of the United States . Rip , in fact , was no politician ; the changes of states and empires made but little impression on him ...
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... England , where for years he was the arch rebel of all America , he was generally held in respect and esteem , and had many constant friends whose confidence no events could shake . Moral , intellectual , and material boons he conferred ...
... England , where for years he was the arch rebel of all America , he was generally held in respect and esteem , and had many constant friends whose confidence no events could shake . Moral , intellectual , and material boons he conferred ...
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