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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 6 : lyrics (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Advertisements. (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Harper 's American Essayists (search)
Harper's American Essayists
other times and other Seasons.
By Laurence Hutton.
A little English gallery.
By Louise Imogen Guiney.
Literary and social Silhouettes.
By Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen.
Studies of the stage.
By Brander Matthews.
Americanisms and Briticisms, with Other Essays on Other Isms.
By Brander Matthews.
As we go. By Charles Dudley Warner.
With Illustrations.
as we were saying.
By Ciarles Dudley Warner.
With Illustrations.
From the easy Chair.
By George William CuBrander Matthews.
As we go. By Charles Dudley Warner.
With Illustrations.
as we were saying.
By Ciarles Dudley Warner.
With Illustrations.
From the easy Chair.
By George William Curtis.
from the easy Chair.
Second Series. By George William Curtis.
from the easy Chair.
Third Series. By George William Curtis.
Criticism and fiction.
By William Dean Howells.
from the books of Laurence Hutton.
Concerning all of us. By Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
The work of John Ruskin.
By Charles Waldstein.
Picture and text.
By Henry James.
With Illustrations. 16mo, Cloth, $1 00 each.
Complete Sets, in White and Gold,
$1 25 a Volume.
Published by Harper & Brothers, New York
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 34 (search)
XXXIV.
social superiors.
Mr. Brander Matthews lately quoted, at a discussion held in New York as to the working of republican government, an early statement by Lowell, which seems to me to contain a brief epitome of the whole matter, and to be too good to forget.
Lowell said (I quote from memory), If it be a good thing for an English duke that he has no social superior, I think it can hardly be bad for an American farmer.
It reminded me of a saying by a classmate of mine, so fond of England and so ashamed of his own country that he used to define it as the mission of the United States to vulgarize the whole world, who yet resented being taken too literally in this remark; and would tell a story of the disgusting sycophancy of middle-class Englishmen towards people of rank, contrasting it with the perfect indifference of the average American traveller, unconscious of having a social superior anywhere.
But there is an aspect of this social superior question so obvious that I
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 6 : the short story (search)
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)