Native American HumorChandler Publishing Company, 1960 - 565 Seiten Selected American humor, some excerpted. |
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... speech , and the freedom with which it is shaped to the instant want of those who use it , are of the best omen for our having a swan at last . " The essay ended with a series of illustrations of the point that American speech was not ...
... speech , and the freedom with which it is shaped to the instant want of those who use it , are of the best omen for our having a swan at last . " The essay ended with a series of illustrations of the point that American speech was not ...
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... speech he employs have more than comedy to recommend them . They are conceits , comic because they are startlingly ... speech better than elsewhere , one may see what George H. McKnight meant when , in Chapter X of Modern English in the ...
... speech he employs have more than comedy to recommend them . They are conceits , comic because they are startlingly ... speech better than elsewhere , one may see what George H. McKnight meant when , in Chapter X of Modern English in the ...
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... speech . " He imparted to the printed page , " said Brander Matthews , " the vivacity of the spoken word , its swiftness and its apparently unpremeditated ease . " 1 Matthews referred to passages written by Clemens in his own character ...
... speech . " He imparted to the printed page , " said Brander Matthews , " the vivacity of the spoken word , its swiftness and its apparently unpremeditated ease . " 1 Matthews referred to passages written by Clemens in his own character ...
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The Requisites for American Humor | 3 |
Beginnings 17751830 | 19 |
Down East Humor 18301867 | 41 |
Urheberrecht | |
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