The Advance of the American Short StoryDodd, Mead, 1923 - 302 lappuses |
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29. lappuse
... style of his fellow countrymen . The influence , however , of Defoe , Goldsmith , Ad- dison , and Steele are plain , though he has his eye fixed much more directly upon the object than 1 X Addison and Steele . He has Defoe's verisimili ...
... style of his fellow countrymen . The influence , however , of Defoe , Goldsmith , Ad- dison , and Steele are plain , though he has his eye fixed much more directly upon the object than 1 X Addison and Steele . He has Defoe's verisimili ...
30. lappuse
... style , no doubt while reading The Vicar of Wakefield over and over again as a boy , accomplished the feat . In later years , Irving was influenced by his friend Sir Walter Scott , but this influence is to be observed chiefly in the ...
... style , no doubt while reading The Vicar of Wakefield over and over again as a boy , accomplished the feat . In later years , Irving was influenced by his friend Sir Walter Scott , but this influence is to be observed chiefly in the ...
32. lappuse
... - tion and balance which led him to fill in what they more or less entirely neglected . It is true that the plots of his two best short stories are rather tenuous , but the virtuosity of his style confers 32 THE ADVANCE OF THE.
... - tion and balance which led him to fill in what they more or less entirely neglected . It is true that the plots of his two best short stories are rather tenuous , but the virtuosity of his style confers 32 THE ADVANCE OF THE.
33. lappuse
Edward Joseph O'Brien. rather tenuous , but the virtuosity of his style confers substance upon that tenuity . He was conscious himself of the fact that his materials were delicate . " My writings may appear light and trifling in our ...
Edward Joseph O'Brien. rather tenuous , but the virtuosity of his style confers substance upon that tenuity . He was conscious himself of the fact that his materials were delicate . " My writings may appear light and trifling in our ...
35. lappuse
... style . The curi- ous may sample it in The French Village ( 1829 ) , which Professor Baldwin prints with some well- deserved cutting in his collection of American Short Stories.1 Hall also related tales of the supernatural with an air ...
... style . The curi- ous may sample it in The French Village ( 1829 ) , which Professor Baldwin prints with some well- deserved cutting in his collection of American Short Stories.1 Hall also related tales of the supernatural with an air ...
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