Copeland's Treasury for Booklovers, Band 1C. Scribner's Sons, 1927 |
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... Better for his aim than the imagination that the essayist lacks , is the inexhaustible fancy that wings his meaning with unforget- able analogies and startling contrasts , drawn often from the life that every man knows . Cool , tolerant ...
... Better for his aim than the imagination that the essayist lacks , is the inexhaustible fancy that wings his meaning with unforget- able analogies and startling contrasts , drawn often from the life that every man knows . Cool , tolerant ...
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... better be called the frisson historique . For , however he starts with a subject taken from history , in nine cases out of ten he either gives it an eerie twist , or makes it a mere point of departure into conscience- land , where , as ...
... better be called the frisson historique . For , however he starts with a subject taken from history , in nine cases out of ten he either gives it an eerie twist , or makes it a mere point of departure into conscience- land , where , as ...
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... better than witches ' broth in the mouth of a Puritan divine . Mr. Henry James , who first expressed in precise terms the truth about Hawthorne's use of his material , thereby did an immense service to criticism in relieving the world ...
... better than witches ' broth in the mouth of a Puritan divine . Mr. Henry James , who first expressed in precise terms the truth about Hawthorne's use of his material , thereby did an immense service to criticism in relieving the world ...
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... better than the well - worn anecdote of Mrs. Siddons , Sheridan , and the sleep - walking scene . In that in- cident , the lady prevailed and was proved to be right , but most often Sheridan was " monstrous witty " yet also wise in his ...
... better than the well - worn anecdote of Mrs. Siddons , Sheridan , and the sleep - walking scene . In that in- cident , the lady prevailed and was proved to be right , but most often Sheridan was " monstrous witty " yet also wise in his ...
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... better than all the waters of Israel ? May I not wash in them and be clean ? " Here is a good place to say that I should not like to have the Bible as much dramatized in church as I incline to dramatize it . The clergy should , however ...
... better than all the waters of Israel ? May I not wash in them and be clean ? " Here is a good place to say that I should not like to have the Bible as much dramatized in church as I incline to dramatize it . The clergy should , however ...
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