America, with mother wit preaching the gospel of Christ, and in plain native phrase applying it to a tremendous public exigency in Christian America. The Yankee dialect of New England, like the Yankee himself, had become a jest of farce and extravaganza.... JAMES RUSSELL LOWEEL AN ADDRESS - Página 30por GEORGE WIILLIAM CURTIS - 1892Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| George William Curtis - 1892 - 88 páginas
...did not abate the Yankee a jot or a tittle. He magnified his characteristic drawl, his good-natured simplicity, his / provincial inexperience. But he...the time, / Lowell called " a squib of mine," was pub/ lished in the Boston Courier. That squib ( was a great incident both in the history \ of American... | |
| John Scott Clark - 1898 - 910 páginas
...England language, New England character and achievement, were all his delight and familiar study. . . . Burns did not give to the Scottish tongue a nobler immortality than Lowell gave to the dialect of New England. . . . Literature was his pursuit, but patriotism was his passion.... | |
| Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1900 - 470 páginas
...public exigency in Christian America. The Yankee dialect of New England, like the Yankee himself, has become a jest of farce and extravaganza. But, thoroughly...first Biglow paper, which, in a letter written at th2 time, Lowell called " a squib of mine," was published in "The Boston Courier." That squib was a... | |
| John Scott Clark - 1900 - 886 páginas
...England language, New England character and achievement, were all his delight and familiar study. . . . Burns did not give to the Scottish tongue a nobler immortality than Lowell gave to the dialect of New England. Literature was his pursuit, but patriotism was his passion. His... | |
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