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... popular with his countrymen . They are written more for an English audience than for an American . The Anglo - Saxons on the other side the Atlantic have a thousand years upon their brow , and they have become artificialized just to ...
... popular with his countrymen . They are written more for an English audience than for an American . The Anglo - Saxons on the other side the Atlantic have a thousand years upon their brow , and they have become artificialized just to ...
Page 25
... popular , an author must be various ; truly a difficult problem to solve , since there is no guide who can find the trail . This is one of those points in which experience is fatal as to detail , benefiting only by the broad bold fact ...
... popular , an author must be various ; truly a difficult problem to solve , since there is no guide who can find the trail . This is one of those points in which experience is fatal as to detail , benefiting only by the broad bold fact ...
Page 38
... popularity , but remain content with his fame , which is suffi- ciently European to satisfy even an ambitious man . Forest scenery has ever been a favorite with all classes of readers our boyish associations cling to us till we become ...
... popularity , but remain content with his fame , which is suffi- ciently European to satisfy even an ambitious man . Forest scenery has ever been a favorite with all classes of readers our boyish associations cling to us till we become ...
Page 43
... popular author must necessarily be a man of great sagacity . A keen instinct is indispensable for a great dramatist , although mere play- wrights may be made out of a clever selecter of theatrical situations . It not unfrequently occurs ...
... popular author must necessarily be a man of great sagacity . A keen instinct is indispensable for a great dramatist , although mere play- wrights may be made out of a clever selecter of theatrical situations . It not unfrequently occurs ...
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... popularity which are essen- tially different ; the first is founded on the human heart , the other is merely ... popular as Churchill in his own day ? Yet he is now seldom read or quoted . His popularity was built on a figment of ...
... popularity which are essen- tially different ; the first is founded on the human heart , the other is merely ... popular as Churchill in his own day ? Yet he is now seldom read or quoted . His popularity was built on a figment of ...
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