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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 16: Webster (search)
Constitution and the founders of our government, had passed away. That of the magazine and the review had not arrived. Men in public life trusted to their speeches in Parliament or Congress or before the people, almost as in the days of Fox and Pitt, to make their arguments and opinions known, and they would have thought any other course hardly consistent with their dignity. Moreover, Webster did not give his leisure, as many statesmen have done, to writing memoirs or history or to the discu and yet with the impalpable literary feeling all through it, the perfect production of a very beautiful and subtle art. Among English orators Burke undoubtedly comes nearest to a complete union of the two qualities, and while the words of Fox and Pitt are unread and unquoted, except by historians, Burke's gorgeous sentences are recited and repeated and his philosophic discussion of great general principles are studied and admired by successive generations. Yet there is no doubt that Burke erre
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)
thropist, the, 45 Philip II, 129, 136, 139, 146 Philo Judaeus, 211 Philosophy of history, the, 4 Philosophy of the short story, the, 388 Phoenixiana, 156 Physiology of verse, the, 229 Picayune, 184 Picket-Guard, The, 280 Pierce, Franklin, 19, 21 Pierce, Miss, 215 Pike, Albert, 290, 292, 298, 303 Pindar, 2, 3, 238 Pinkney, Edward Coate, 289 Pintard, John, 115 Pioneer, the, 165, 246 Pioneer times in California, 363 n. Pitkin, Timothy, 108, 111 Pitt, William, 93, 96 Place of Judge story in the making of American law, the, 77 n. Plain and pleasant talk about fruit, flowers and farming, 215 Plato, 197, 211, 213 Plebeian, 264 n. Plu-Ri-Bus Tah, 156 Poe, Edgar Allan, 37, 55-69, 165, 168, 173, 174, 225, 239, 245, 249, 289, 290, 327, 351, 358, 362, 369, 370, 373, 374, 375, 378, 380, 383, 384, 387, 388 Poe's cottage at Fordham, 330 Poems (Brownell), 277 Poems and ballads upon important episodes in American history, 409 P