American Literature: Tradition & Innovation, Volume 2Harrison T. Meserole, Walter Sutton, Brom Weber |
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... idea . Le's go up stairs and count this money , and then take and give it to the girls . " " Good land , duke , lemme hug you ! It's the most dazzling idea ' at ever a man struck . You have cert'nly got the most astonishin ' head I ever ...
... idea . Le's go up stairs and count this money , and then take and give it to the girls . " " Good land , duke , lemme hug you ! It's the most dazzling idea ' at ever a man struck . You have cert'nly got the most astonishin ' head I ever ...
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... idea , the subject , of a novel or a picture , does not matter . It matters , to my sense , in the highest degree , and if I might put up a prayer it would be that artists should select none but the richest . Some , as I have already ...
... idea , the subject , of a novel or a picture , does not matter . It matters , to my sense , in the highest degree , and if I might put up a prayer it would be that artists should select none but the richest . Some , as I have already ...
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... idea , the starting - point , of the novel , is the only one that I see in which it can be spoken of as something different from its organic whole ; and since in proportion as the work is successful the idea permeates and penetrates it ...
... idea , the starting - point , of the novel , is the only one that I see in which it can be spoken of as something different from its organic whole ; and since in proportion as the work is successful the idea permeates and penetrates it ...
Contents
Pioneers of the Modern | 1855 |
Song of Myself | 1861 |
Children of Adam | 1908 |
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