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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.) 3 3 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 2 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 2 0 Browse 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.) 2 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], Joint meeting. (search)
We did not look for anything very philosophical or profound, but had the right to anticipate a brilliant and good-humored portraiture of American life. There were some who predicted we should catch it, but it was believed that if satirized at all, it would be in such artistic style that we should enjoy our own dissection. But we were all to be grievously disappointed. The book overflowed with gall and venom. There was scarcely a drop of the milk of human kindness in it. It out-Trolloped Trollope, and in downright misrepresentation and abuse threw Hall and Maryatt into the shade. As a specimen of wit and humor, it was beneath contempt. He came back at us in the same style in "Martin Chuzzlewit." Instead of a Damascus blade of bright and trenchant satire, he cut us up with a rusty butcher-knife, which, considering us a nation of swine, he probably thought the most appropriate weapon. Forgetting his own caricature in Pickwick of French travelers in England, he himself enacted the p