The Biglow Papers, Band 2Ticknor and Fields, 1867 - 175 Seiten |
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... verses of my pseudonym copied everywhere ; I saw them pinned up in workshops ; I heard them quoted and their authorship debated ; I once even , when rumor had at length caught up my name in one of its eddies , had the satisfaction of ...
... verses of my pseudonym copied everywhere ; I saw them pinned up in workshops ; I heard them quoted and their authorship debated ; I once even , when rumor had at length caught up my name in one of its eddies , had the satisfaction of ...
Seite x
... verses survive to pass beyond their nonage . In choosing the Yankee dialect , I did not act without forethought . It had long seemed to me that the great vice of American writing and speaking was a studied want of simplicity , that we ...
... verses survive to pass beyond their nonage . In choosing the Yankee dialect , I did not act without forethought . It had long seemed to me that the great vice of American writing and speaking was a studied want of simplicity , that we ...
Seite xiii
... verse ended by wire - drawing its phrase to such thinness that it could bear no weight of meaning whatever . Nor is fine writing by any means confined to America . All writers without imagination fall into it of necessity whenever they ...
... verse ended by wire - drawing its phrase to such thinness that it could bear no weight of meaning whatever . Nor is fine writing by any means confined to America . All writers without imagination fall into it of necessity whenever they ...
Seite xv
... verse and prose in English . Vulgarisms are often only poetry in the egg . The late Mr. Horace Mann , in one of his public addresses , commented at some length on the beauty and moral significance of the French phrase s'orienter , and ...
... verse and prose in English . Vulgarisms are often only poetry in the egg . The late Mr. Horace Mann , in one of his public addresses , commented at some length on the beauty and moral significance of the French phrase s'orienter , and ...
Seite xix
... verse of Wordsworth . The dictionaries all give it so . I asked a highly cultivated Englishman , and he declared for imbeceel ' . In general it may be assumed that accent will finally settle on the syllable dictated by greater ease and ...
... verse of Wordsworth . The dictionaries all give it so . I asked a highly cultivated Englishman , and he declared for imbeceel ' . In general it may be assumed that accent will finally settle on the syllable dictated by greater ease and ...
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