The Spirit of American LiteratureBoni & Liveright, 1913 - 347 頁 |
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... romances which achieve an enormous popularity ! The case is too grotesque to be typical , yet it is exceptional in degree ... romance to Mr. Howells's latest unromantic novel , most of our books are eminent for just those virtues which ...
... romances which achieve an enormous popularity ! The case is too grotesque to be typical , yet it is exceptional in degree ... romance to Mr. Howells's latest unromantic novel , most of our books are eminent for just those virtues which ...
第 16 頁
... romance of the sea . A few Ameri- can novelists have felt the meaning of the life they knew and have tried sincerely to set it down , but have for various reasons failed to make first - rate novels ; for example , Edward Eggleston ...
... romance of the sea . A few Ameri- can novelists have felt the meaning of the life they knew and have tried sincerely to set it down , but have for various reasons failed to make first - rate novels ; for example , Edward Eggleston ...
第 19 頁
... romance still rings solitary along the Hudson palisades . Irving was a child of fortune . His father was in comfort- able circumstances , and the young man was able to indulge in three pleasures which cherished his talents : innocent ...
... romance still rings solitary along the Hudson palisades . Irving was a child of fortune . His father was in comfort- able circumstances , and the young man was able to indulge in three pleasures which cherished his talents : innocent ...
第 21 頁
... romance . Irving taught America that the star of romance shines above the forests of Astoria as truly as above Alhambra ; indeed the spell that Irving casts over Astoria makes us forget that he was playing press - agent for a land ...
... romance . Irving taught America that the star of romance shines above the forests of Astoria as truly as above Alhambra ; indeed the spell that Irving casts over Astoria makes us forget that he was playing press - agent for a land ...
第 42 頁
... romance whom we accept . Uncas and Chingachgook will bear scrutiny as well as Rob Roy and Robin Hood . It is with them , the figures of myth , that Natty Bumppo belongs ; he is not an American character but a fabulous personage , like ...
... romance whom we accept . Uncas and Chingachgook will bear scrutiny as well as Rob Roy and Robin Hood . It is with them , the figures of myth , that Natty Bumppo belongs ; he is not an American character but a fabulous personage , like ...
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第 230 頁 - Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death.
第 178 頁 - The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.
第 221 頁 - RECONCILIATION WORD over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost...
第 79 頁 - No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
第 238 頁 - O happy life! O songs of joy! In the air, in the woods, over fields, Loved! loved! loved! loved! loved! But my mate no more, no more with me! We two together no more.
第 191 頁 - It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century ; — But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men...
第 259 頁 - IN THIS book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri Negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary "Pike County" dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech.
第 111 頁 - I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew.
第 146 頁 - A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such events that may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect.
第 104 頁 - MILTON I pace the sounding sea-beach and behold How the voluminous billows roll and run, Upheaving and subsiding, while the sun Shines through their sheeted emerald far unrolled, And the ninth wave, slow gathering fold by fold All its loose-flowing garments into one, Plunges upon the shore, and floods the dun Pale reach of sands, and changes them to gold.