| 1888 - 1052 pages
...other hand, no self-respecting writer should ape the false, deprecating " umbleness" of Uriah Heep. In short, he wishes to pass, like a coin, for just...bookstores of the great cities of the West, in order to have observed for himself how the demand of one of the largest and most intelligent reading publics... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1888 - 212 pages
...I" 1i For every English writer they have an American writer to match ; and him good Americans read. The Western States are at this moment being nourished...hear, on the novels of a native author called Roe, instead of those ;•. of Scott and Dickens. Far from admitting that their average man is a danger,... | |
| 1888 - 892 pages
...man. For every English writer they have an American writer to match. And him good Americans read ; the Western States are at this moment being nourished...hear, on the novels of a native author called Roe, instead of those of Scott and Dickens. Far from admitting that their average man is a danger, ana that... | |
| 1888 - 572 pages
...man. For every English writer they have an American writer to match. And him good Americaus read ; the Western States are at this moment being nourished...hear, on the novels of a native author called Roe, instead of those of Scott and Dickens. Far from admitting that their average man is a danger, and that... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1892 - 254 pages
...begun to complain that we did not read English novels enough. " The Western States," he laments, " are at this moment being nourished and formed, we hear, on the novels of a native author named Roe, instead of on those of Scott and Dickens." Leaving Mr. Arnold and Mr. Holt to correct each... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1892 - 232 pages
...begun to complain that we did not read English novels enough. " The Western States," he laments, " are at this moment being nourished and formed, we hear, on the novels of a native author named Roe, instead of on those of Scott and Dickens." Leaving Mr. Arnold and Mr. Holt to correct each... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1892 - 256 pages
...begun to complain that we did not read English novels enough. " The Western States," he laments, " are at this moment being nourished and formed, we hear, on the novels of a native author named Roe, instead of on those of Scott and Dickens." Leaving Mr. Arnold and Mr. Holt to correct each... | |
| Daniel Dulany Addison - 1900 - 424 pages
...novelists was Edward Payson Roe (1838-1888). Matthew Arnold once wrote sarcastically about him, saying, "The Western states are at this moment being nourished...hear, on the novels of a native author called Roe." Many were certainly nourished on Roe's novels, for they were phenomenally successful from the publishers'... | |
| Daniel Dulany Addison - 1900 - 426 pages
...novelists was Edward Payson Roe (1838-1888). Matthew Arnold once wrote sarcastically about him, saying, "The Western states are at this moment being nourished...hear, on the novels of a native author called Roe." Many were certainly nourished on Roe's novels, for they were phenomenally successful from the publishers'... | |
| 1888 - 966 pages
...man. For every English writer they have an American writer to match. And him good Americans read ; the Western States are at this moment being nourished...hear, on the novels of a native author called Roe, instead of those of Scott and Dickens. Far from admitting that their average man is a danger, and that... | |
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