Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Hawthorne” in chapter 8, page 68 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
...r 'prentice hands with the best intentions in the same number of the New England Magazine, they could not raise its level.
We see in these compositions, as in the Annuals of that day, that although Hawthorne had begun with his style already formed, yet that of Longfellow was still immature.
This remark does not, indeed, apply to a version of a French
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