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" Americans read. The Western States are at this moment being nourished and formed, we hear, on the novels of a native author called Roe, instead of those of Scott and Dickens. "
Taken Alive: And Other Stories : with an Autobiography - Page 23
by Edward Payson Roe - 1889 - 375 pages
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Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Volume 42

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...
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Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America

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,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 177

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...
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Household Guest, Volume 1

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...
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Concerning All of Us

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...
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Concerning All of Us

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...
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Concerning All of Us

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...
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The Clergy in American Life and Letters

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'...
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The Clergy in American Life and Letters

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'...
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Nineteenth Century and After, Volume 23

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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