Copeland's Treasury for Booklovers, Volume 1C. Scribner's Sons, 1927 - American literature |
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Page xi
... kind of wild justice , " " men fear death as children fear to go in the dark , " " he that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune , ” — these and at least a dozen other open- ings of essays are famous wherever English is ...
... kind of wild justice , " " men fear death as children fear to go in the dark , " " he that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune , ” — these and at least a dozen other open- ings of essays are famous wherever English is ...
Page xiv
... kind of tableau , inter- mittently present to the inward eye , and moralized by what we remember of " The Scarlet Letter , " and " Legends of the Province House , " and certain portions of " The House of the Seven Gables . " Our not too ...
... kind of tableau , inter- mittently present to the inward eye , and moralized by what we remember of " The Scarlet Letter , " and " Legends of the Province House , " and certain portions of " The House of the Seven Gables . " Our not too ...
Page xvi
... kind of Neo - Puritanic teacher , with a moral and a purpose . Nothing in criticism is more subtle , and nothing , I am persuaded , more just , than Mr. James's pages concern- ing this matter . I risk injustice to him for the pleasure ...
... kind of Neo - Puritanic teacher , with a moral and a purpose . Nothing in criticism is more subtle , and nothing , I am persuaded , more just , than Mr. James's pages concern- ing this matter . I risk injustice to him for the pleasure ...
Page xix
... kind of cockney fairy - tale , strongly dashed with " Don Quixote . " Not a few critics have called Mr. Pickwick a middle - class Don Quixote , and Sam Weller a cockney Sancho Panza . Though the comparison is inexact , especially ...
... kind of cockney fairy - tale , strongly dashed with " Don Quixote . " Not a few critics have called Mr. Pickwick a middle - class Don Quixote , and Sam Weller a cockney Sancho Panza . Though the comparison is inexact , especially ...
Page 33
... kind of beasts , and of birds , and of serpents , and of things in the sea , is tamed , and hath been tamed of mankind : 8 But the tongue can no man tame ; it is an unruly evil , full of deadly poison . 9 Therewith bless we God , even ...
... kind of beasts , and of birds , and of serpents , and of things in the sea , is tamed , and hath been tamed of mankind : 8 But the tongue can no man tame ; it is an unruly evil , full of deadly poison . 9 Therewith bless we God , even ...
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