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Page 14
... carried the young spirit on is lessened , and the beaten path is of course preferred to the labor of making another track in a new direction . Mr. Cooper's novels of Mercedes of Castile and the Bravo of Venice , are evidences that he ...
... carried the young spirit on is lessened , and the beaten path is of course preferred to the labor of making another track in a new direction . Mr. Cooper's novels of Mercedes of Castile and the Bravo of Venice , are evidences that he ...
Page 22
... carried to the full extent of its capacity of enjoyment or thought , and still the author is not exhausted . It is this which stamps Shakspeare as indisputably the first of Poets - the peasant and the philoso- pher are alike instructed ...
... carried to the full extent of its capacity of enjoyment or thought , and still the author is not exhausted . It is this which stamps Shakspeare as indisputably the first of Poets - the peasant and the philoso- pher are alike instructed ...
Page 27
... carried to an unnatural extent . Love is natural , but when this passion for an object carries us beyond reason it becomes a monomania . Judged by this rule , Long Tom Coffin is a monomaniac , for no rational being would destroy himself ...
... carried to an unnatural extent . Love is natural , but when this passion for an object carries us beyond reason it becomes a monomania . Judged by this rule , Long Tom Coffin is a monomaniac , for no rational being would destroy himself ...
Page 29
... carried off by the sea . If ye are about to strive for your life , take with ye a stout heart and a clean conscience , and trust the rest to God ! ' " God ! ' echoed Dillon in the madness of his phrensy ; ' I know no God ! there is no ...
... carried off by the sea . If ye are about to strive for your life , take with ye a stout heart and a clean conscience , and trust the rest to God ! ' " God ! ' echoed Dillon in the madness of his phrensy ; ' I know no God ! there is no ...
Page 39
... their natures was becoming vociferous for sustenance . On a sudden they beheld a baker carrying a large basket of newly - baked loaves ; veni , vidi , vici , was the order of the day ; swift as thought JAMES 39 FENIMORE COOPER .
... their natures was becoming vociferous for sustenance . On a sudden they beheld a baker carrying a large basket of newly - baked loaves ; veni , vidi , vici , was the order of the day ; swift as thought JAMES 39 FENIMORE COOPER .
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