American Literary EssaysLewis Gaston Leary Crowell, 1960 - 318 páginas |
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... course , very largely the product of oral influences . He was a born story - teller , and he al- ways insisted that the oral form of the humorous story was high art . Its essential tool ( or weapon ) , he said , is the pause —which is ...
... course , very largely the product of oral influences . He was a born story - teller , and he al- ways insisted that the oral form of the humorous story was high art . Its essential tool ( or weapon ) , he said , is the pause —which is ...
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... course by the stars , nor the hour of the day by the sun . It is well if we can swim and skate . We are afraid of a horse , of a cow , of a dog , of a snake , of a spider . The Roman rule was to teach a boy nothing that he could not ...
... course by the stars , nor the hour of the day by the sun . It is well if we can swim and skate . We are afraid of a horse , of a cow , of a dog , of a snake , of a spider . The Roman rule was to teach a boy nothing that he could not ...
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... course is perfectly simple - to let it alone . We may believe that of a certain idea even the most sincere novelist can make nothing at all , and the event may per- fectly justify our belief ; but the failure will have been a failure to ...
... course is perfectly simple - to let it alone . We may believe that of a certain idea even the most sincere novelist can make nothing at all , and the event may per- fectly justify our belief ; but the failure will have been a failure to ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes 18091894 | 5 |
Washington Irving 17831859 | 16 |
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