 | 1910 - 558 sider
...English predecessors, by "puerile superstition and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras," but by "the incidents of Indian hostility, and the perils of the Western Wilderness . . . For a native of America to overlook these would admit of no apology." Without losing sight of... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 544 sider
...human frame. One merit the writer may at least claim : that of calling forth the passions and energy of the reader by means hitherto unemployed by preceding...Wilderness, are far more suitable ; and for a native American to overlook these would admit of no apology. These, therefore, are, in part, the ingredients... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 498 sider
...protests against " puerile superstition and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras," and adds : " The incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the western wilderness are far more suitable." All this is admirable, but unfortunately the inherited thoughts and methods of the period hung round... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 sider
...protests against " puerile superstition and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras," and adds: "The incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the western wilderness are far more suitable." All this is admirable, but unfortunately the inherited thoughts and methods of the period hung round... | |
 | Christabel Forsyth Fiske - 1900 - 52 sider
...and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras, are the materials usually employed for such ends. The incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the western wilderness are far more suitable for a native of America. These, therefore, are in part the ingredients of this tale, and these he has... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1906 - 380 sider
...of the field open to American writers of fiction, and to substitute, as in Edgar Huntley (1801), " the incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the western wilderness " for the puerile terrors of Mrs. Radcliffe and the Castle of Otranto. It was in the fertile field... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1900 - 386 sider
...richness of the field open to American writers of fiction, and to substitute, as in Edgar Huntley (1801), "the incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the western wilderness " for the puerile terrors of Mrs. Radcliffe and the Castle of Otranto. It was in the fertile field... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 378 sider
...protests against " puerile superstition and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras," and adds : " The incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the western wilderness are far more suitable." All this is admirable, but unfortunately the inherited thoughts and methods of the period hung round... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 466 sider
...protests against " puerile superstition and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras," and adds : " The incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the western wilderness are far more suitable." All this is admirable, but unfortunately the inherited thoughts and methods of the period hung round... | |
 | 1910 - 546 sider
...English predecessors, by "puerile superstition and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras," but by "the incidents of Indian hostility, and the perils of the Western Wilderness . . . For a native of America to overlook these would admit of no apology." Without losing sight of... | |
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Puerile superstition and exploded manners; Gothic castles and chimeras, are the materials usually employed for this end. The incidents of Indian hostility, and the perils of the western wilderness... 
