...imagination than profundity ; and literary performances will bear marks of an untutored and rude vigour of thought, — frequently of great variety and singular...their defects or their better qualities ; but these excep119 tions will be rare, and even the authors who shall so depart from the received practice in...

...common than bulky books ; there will be more wit than erudition, more imagination than profundity ; the object of authors will be to astonish rather than...please, and to stir the passions more than to charm th<; ta*te. Its further effects may be learned from his observations on the sources of poetry amongst...

...of the chapters of his work on America, thus characterizes the literature of a democratic state : " There will be more wit than erudition, more imagination...than to please, and to stir the passions more than to eharm the taste." Without entering into the question, at present, of what may be yet expected from...

...the . chapters of his work on America, thus characterizes the literature of a democratic state : " There will be more wit than erudition, more imagination...will be to astonish rather than to please, and to »tir the passions more than to charm the taste." Without entering into the question, at present, of...

...profundity; and literary performances will bear marks of an untutored and rude vigor of thought—frequently of great variety and singular fecundity. The object...to stir the passions more than to charm the taste." Without entering into the question, at present, of what may be yet expected from America, or even of...

...frequently introduces something of a democratic spirit into an aristocratic community. There springs up, moreover, in a governing privileged body, an energy...indeed, writers will doubtless occur who will choose a ditferent track, and who will, if they are gifted with superior abilities, succeed in finding readers,...

...imagination than profundity ; and literary performances will bear marks of an untutored .and rude vigour of thought — frequently of great variety and singular...exceptions will be rare, and even the authors who shah1 so depart from the received practice in the main subject of their works, will always relapse...

...frequently of great variety and singular profundity. The object of authors will be more to astonish than to please, and to stir the passions more than to charm the taste. All this literature will be characterized by freedom from conventional rules ; the styles will frequently...

...frequently of great variety and singular profundity. The object of authors will be more to astonish than to please, and to stir the passions more than to charm the taste. All this literature will be characterized by freedom from conventional rules; the styles will frequently...

...frequently be fantastic, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, almost always vehement and bold. . . . The object of authors will be to astonish rather than...to stir the passions more than to charm the taste, (de Tocqueville [1835] 1954, pp. 50, 52, 54). It remains true that American art and sport tend toward...