Major Writers of America, Volume 1Perry Miller Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 - Literary Criticism Selections from the writings of fifteen important American authors, including portions of novels, short stories, prose and poems. |
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Page 89
... Franklin received , the affair climax- ing in the total destruction of Franklin's victim after the seventeenth when Leeds , foolishly insisting that he still lived , was described by Franklin as an imposter . Even in sober Phila ...
... Franklin received , the affair climax- ing in the total destruction of Franklin's victim after the seventeenth when Leeds , foolishly insisting that he still lived , was described by Franklin as an imposter . Even in sober Phila ...
Page 96
... Franklin gingerly avoided all such speculation ; the older he grew , the more he let such considerations alone . Yet the older he grew , the more by his very geniality , in his weary games with the ladies of the French Court , he ...
... Franklin gingerly avoided all such speculation ; the older he grew , the more he let such considerations alone . Yet the older he grew , the more by his very geniality , in his weary games with the ladies of the French Court , he ...
Page 97
... Franklin , still harping on his boredom with humanity , continued thus : I should rejoice much , if I could once ... Franklin's " works of nature " should not be cheaply made into an interchangeable term with Edwards ' " sum and ...
... Franklin , still harping on his boredom with humanity , continued thus : I should rejoice much , if I could once ... Franklin's " works of nature " should not be cheaply made into an interchangeable term with Edwards ' " sum and ...
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