American Prose: Hawthorne, Irving and OthersHoughton, Mifflin, 1891 - 414 страници |
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... preferred to make the introductions more gen- eral in character , with a view to suggesting points of critical inquiry in literature , for such a volume as this offers a good opportunity for directing young stu- dents toward.
... preferred to make the introductions more gen- eral in character , with a view to suggesting points of critical inquiry in literature , for such a volume as this offers a good opportunity for directing young stu- dents toward.
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... character of prose makes anno- tation less necessary than in poetry . Besides , the interruption of an obscure reference is less fatal to enjoyment than in poetry . The editor , therefore , has given fewer notes than in American Poems ...
... character of prose makes anno- tation less necessary than in poetry . Besides , the interruption of an obscure reference is less fatal to enjoyment than in poetry . The editor , therefore , has given fewer notes than in American Poems ...
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... characters , good and evil , in order to detect any of his essential traits . " -- There has rarely been a writer of fiction , then , whose per- sonality has been so absolutely separate from that of each character created by him , and ...
... characters , good and evil , in order to detect any of his essential traits . " -- There has rarely been a writer of fiction , then , whose per- sonality has been so absolutely separate from that of each character created by him , and ...
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... characters is derived but little from any external description ; it resides in the truthfulness with which they respond to some perma- nent and controlling operation of the human soul . Looking into his own heart , and always , when ...
... characters is derived but little from any external description ; it resides in the truthfulness with which they respond to some perma- nent and controlling operation of the human soul . Looking into his own heart , and always , when ...
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... characters of that history favorable material for the representation of spiritual conflict . He was himself the most New English of New Englanders , and held an extraordinary sympathy with the very soil of his section of the country ...
... characters of that history favorable material for the representation of spiritual conflict . He was himself the most New English of New Englanders , and held an extraordinary sympathy with the very soil of his section of the country ...
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Страница 297 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Страница 103 - thy mistress leads thee a dog's life of it ; but never mind, my lad, whilst I live thou shalt never want a friend to stand by thee!" Wolf would wag his tail, look wistfully in his master's face, and, if dogs can feel pity, I verily believe he reciprocated the sentiment with all his heart. In a long ramble of the kind on a fine autumnal day, Rip had unconsciously scrambled to one of the highest parts of the Catskill Mountains.
Страница 111 - There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco-smoke, instead of idle speeches ; or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents 'of an ancient newspaper.
Страница 97 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country.
Страница 101 - ... and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue ? The moment Wolf entered the house his crest fell, his tail drooped to the ground, or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation.
Страница 98 - ... lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great Britain, a simple, good-natured fellow, of the name of Rip Van Winkle. He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the siege of Fort Christina.
Страница 111 - The orator bustled up to him, and, drawing him partly aside, inquired "on which side he voted?" Rip stared in vacant stupidity. Another short but busy little fellow pulled him by the arm, and, rising on tiptoe, inquired in his ear, "Whether he was Federal or Democrat?
Страница 111 - Hill— heroes of seventysix— and other words, which were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle. The appearance of Rip, with his long grizzled beard, his rusty fowling-piece, his uncouth dress, and an army of women and children at his heels, soon attracted the attention of the tavern politicians.
Страница 97 - ... about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory. At the foot of these fairy mountains...
Страница 114 - He doubted his own identity, and whether he was himself or another man. In the midst of his bewilderment, the man in the cocked hat demanded who he was, and what was his name? "God knows," exclaimed he, at his wit's end.