Native American HumorChandler Publishing Company, 1960 - 565 Seiten Selected American humor, some excerpted. |
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... passages like Byrd's and Madam Knight's were unusual because , of the vast majority of the colonists , at least of the serious men and women who wrote , one might say what a French scholar of English humor said of the Anglo - Saxons ...
... passages like Byrd's and Madam Knight's were unusual because , of the vast majority of the colonists , at least of the serious men and women who wrote , one might say what a French scholar of English humor said of the Anglo - Saxons ...
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... passages hinted at his real abilities . But his sins diminished , though they did not disappear , as he moved from the role of the literary comedian to the accomplishment of a literary artist - in passages ( for his great- ness must be ...
... passages hinted at his real abilities . But his sins diminished , though they did not disappear , as he moved from the role of the literary comedian to the accomplishment of a literary artist - in passages ( for his great- ness must be ...
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... passages are by Robert Thomas , editor of The Farmer's Al- manac , or his correspondents . " Amusing , " in the 1809 Almanac , is the Yankee tall tale which , in two changed versions , later appeared in The Spirit of the Times ( see p ...
... passages are by Robert Thomas , editor of The Farmer's Al- manac , or his correspondents . " Amusing , " in the 1809 Almanac , is the Yankee tall tale which , in two changed versions , later appeared in The Spirit of the Times ( see p ...
Inhalt
The Requisites for American Humor | 3 |
Beginnings 17751830 | 19 |
Down East Humor 18301867 | 41 |
Urheberrecht | |
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