Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 23Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell Wiley & Putnam, 1853 |
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Page 387
... literature , until very recently , has been but a feeble re- production of English models ; and the best society in the States is moulded upon English customs , usages and notions of etiquette . It is true , as our own individuality ...
... literature , until very recently , has been but a feeble re- production of English models ; and the best society in the States is moulded upon English customs , usages and notions of etiquette . It is true , as our own individuality ...
Page 489
... literature is quite good enough for us at present . Good enough it may be ; but , even to value justly a foreign literature , it No people enters with is essential that we should have our own . sympathy upon the enjoyment of a foreign ...
... literature is quite good enough for us at present . Good enough it may be ; but , even to value justly a foreign literature , it No people enters with is essential that we should have our own . sympathy upon the enjoyment of a foreign ...
Page 490
... literature , of the unexacting nature of our people in such matters of their easy faith in what they possess - of their indifference to the thing sought for in short , of their low and debasing standards of an intellectual education ...
... literature , of the unexacting nature of our people in such matters of their easy faith in what they possess - of their indifference to the thing sought for in short , of their low and debasing standards of an intellectual education ...
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