Statistics for occurrence #1 of “William Dean Howells” in chapter 5 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:
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Its accents were heard in Steele and Addison and were continued in Goldsmith, Sterne, Cowper, and Charles Lamb.
Among Irving's successors, George William Curtis and Charles Dudley Warner and William Dean Howells have been masters of it likewise.
It is mellow human talk, delicate, regardful, capable of exquisite modulation.
With instinctive artistic taste, Irving used this old and sound style upon fresh A...
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