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... fact and of language ; and then creative imagination sinks into some new tradition , to be broken only when , in time to come , the vital force of imagination shall revive . As English literature has grown into maturity , the con- stant ...
... fact and of language ; and then creative imagination sinks into some new tradition , to be broken only when , in time to come , the vital force of imagination shall revive . As English literature has grown into maturity , the con- stant ...
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... fact of national namelessness to a custom which is often held presumptuous ; they called themselves Americans , a name geographically proper to all natives of the Western Hemisphere , from Canada to Patagonia . By this time the custom ...
... fact of national namelessness to a custom which is often held presumptuous ; they called themselves Americans , a name geographically proper to all natives of the Western Hemisphere , from Canada to Patagonia . By this time the custom ...
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... study of America during each of the three periods in ques- tion . When we come to the last and most important of these , the nineteenth century , we may find ourselves a little troubled by the fact that so much of it 6 Introduction.
... study of America during each of the three periods in ques- tion . When we come to the last and most important of these , the nineteenth century , we may find ourselves a little troubled by the fact that so much of it 6 Introduction.
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Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough. little troubled by the fact that so much of it is almost con- temporary with ourselves . Contemporary life is never quite ripe for history ; facts cannot at once range them- selves in true ...
Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough. little troubled by the fact that so much of it is almost con- temporary with ourselves . Contemporary life is never quite ripe for history ; facts cannot at once range them- selves in true ...
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... fact you must grant : never before in English history had men seen dominant the type of which he is the great representative ; never since his time have they again seen that dominant type , now vanished with the world which brought it ...
... fact you must grant : never before in English history had men seen dominant the type of which he is the great representative ; never since his time have they again seen that dominant type , now vanished with the world which brought it ...
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