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" immortal names" have been introduced, with what propriety the reader must determine. It may be permitted to say, in extenuation of what may seem presumption, that whenever .the writer has mentioned Washington, she has felt a sentiment resembling the... "
The Linwoods: Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America - Page 12
by Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1835 - 944 pages
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The Linwoods: Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America, Volume 1

Catharine Maria Sedgwick - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...happily being aware that no effort at " A swashing and a martial outside" would conceal the weak and unskilled woman. A very few of our " immortal names"...literature. THE LINWOODS. CHAPTER I. " Un notable eiemple de U foreecee cvnotne if noire natcre. s'amusant se preoccuper de« chases fctorr*. caouoe...
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The Linwoods: Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America, Volume 1

Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1835 - 328 pages
...at A swashing and a martial outside would conceal the weak and unskilled woman. A very few of our a immortal names" have bee'n introduced, with what propriety...American public constantly manifest towards native Jiterature. THE LINWOODS. CHAPTER I. Un notable exemple de la forcene'e curiosit6 de notre nature,...
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The Linwoods: Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America, Volume 1

Catharine Maria Sedgwick - American literature - 1835 - 292 pages
...happily being aware that no effort at " A swashing and a martial outside" would conceal the weak and unskilled woman. A very few of our " immortal names"...-author of thes~e: volumes is most happy in trusting Jtlo Jthg : indulgent disposition which our American .public constantly manifest towards native literature.--.:...
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The Linwoods: Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America, Volume 1

Catharine Maria Sedgwick - American literature - 1835 - 1074 pages
...reader must determine. It mav be permitted to say, in extenuation of what mav •vein pre-umption, that whenever the writer has mentioned Washington, she has felt a sentiment resemblinij I he awe of the pious Israelite when he approached the ark of the Lord. For the rest, the...
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Standard Novels, Volume 7

1844 - 668 pages
...being aware that no effort at A swashing and a martial outside would conceal the weak and unsldlled woman. A very few of our " immortal names" have been'...public constantly manifest towards native literature. CHAPTER I. Un notable exemple de la forcenee curiusite de notre nature, s'amusant «e preoccuper des...
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A History of American Literature

William B. Cairns - American literature - 1912 - 520 pages
...Washington among the characters, though she confesses in the preface that when mentioning his name "she has felt a sentiment resembling the awe of the...Israelite when he approached the ark of the Lord." The plot is » complicated one, involving all the fortunes of both love and war, and ends with strict...
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The American Novel

Carl Van Doren - American fiction - 1921 - 334 pages
...Sedgwick, in 1835, apologizing for the introduction of the hero in her novel The Linwoods, could write " in extenuation of what may seem presumption, that...Israelite when he approached the ark of the Lord." The legends of Arthur and Charlemagne grew no more rapidly in the most legendbreeding age — indeed,...
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Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives

Lucinda L. Damon-Bach, Victoria Clements - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 380 pages
...Revolution and its hero, General Washington, by writing in her preface that she approaches them with "a sentiment resembling the awe of the pious Israelite when he approached the ark of the Lord" (I, xii). One pious Israelite, Uzzah, merely tried to steady the ark of the Lord when "the oxen shook...
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