 I find that it would be a piece of poltroonery in me to withdraw either the dedication or the dedicatory letter. My long and intimate personal relations with Pierce render the dedication altogether proper, especially as regards this book, which would...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 2071904Full view - About this book
 | James Thomas Fields - 1872 - 370 pages
...your advice, smoke cigars over it, and see what it might be possible for me 'to do towards taking it. I find that it would be a piece of poltroonery in...dedication or the dedicatory letter. My long and intimate personal relations with Pierce render the dedication altogether proper, especially as regards this... | |
 | Henry James - 1879 - 206 pages
...success, and, in plain terms, the sale of his book. His answer (to his publisher), was much to the point. "I find that it would be a piece of poltroonery in...dedication or the dedicatory letter. My long and intimate personal relations with Pierce render the dedication altogether "proper, especially as regards this... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 346 pages
...over it, and see what it might be possible for me to do towards taking it. I find that it would he a piece of poltroonery in me to withdraw either the...dedication or the dedicatory letter. My long and intimate personal relations with Pierce render the dedication altogether pmper, especially as regards this book,... | |
 | Henry James - 1880 - 202 pages
...answer (to his publisher) was much to the point. " I find that it would be a piece of poltroonery in ine to withdraw either the dedication or the dedicatory letter. My long and intimate personal relations with Pierce render the dedication altogether proper, especially as regards this... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 310 pages
...suffered during the war. The following extract from a letter on the subject is worthy of note : — " I find that it would be a piece of poltroonery in...dedication or the dedicatory letter. My long and intimate personal relations with Pierce render the dedication altogether proper, especially as regards this... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 602 pages
...aside from his purpose by any dread of an outcry which he considered unjust. " I find," he replied, " that it would be a piece of poltroonery in me to withdraw either the dedication or the dedicatory letter, . . . and if he [Pierce] is so exceedingly unpopular that his name is enough to sink the volume, there... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 648 pages
...aside from his purpose by any dread of an outcry which he considered unjust. " I find," he replied, " that it would be a piece of poltroonery in me to withdraw either the dedication or the dedicatory letter, . . . and if he [Pierce] is so exceedingly unpopular that his name is enough to sink the volume, there... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 584 pages
...aside from his purpose by any dread of an outcry which he considered unjust. " I find," he replied, " that it would be a piece of poltroonery in me to withdraw either the dedication or the dedicatory letter, . . . and if he [Pierce] is so exceedingly unpopular that his name is enough to sink the volume, there... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1884 - 498 pages
...consternation of its publisher — was dedicated to Franklin Pierce. " I find," Hawthorne wrote, " that it would be a piece of poltroonery in me to withdraw either the dedication or the dedicatory letter. ... If Pierce is so exceedingly unpopular that his name is enough to sink the volume, there is so much... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1884 - 498 pages
...consternation of its publisher — was dedicated to Franklin Pierce. " I find," Hawthorne wrote, " that it would be a piece of poltroonery in me to withdraw either the dedication or the dedicatory letter. ... If Pierce is so exceedingly unpopular that his name is enough to sink the volume, there is so much... | |
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