 The sources of amusement to the fancy and instruction to the heart, that are peculiar to ourselves, are equally numerous and inexhaustible. It is the purpose of this work to profit by some of these sources...  The Early American Novel - Pagina 57door Lillie Deming Loshe - 1907 - 131 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Robert Walsh - 1830 - 650 pagina’s
...field of investigation opened to us by our own country, dilTcrs umantially from those which exist in Europe. The sources of amusement to the fancy, and...exhibit a series of adventures, growing out of the condition of our country, and connected with one of the most common and most wonderful diseases or... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1827 - 282 pagina’s
...own country, should differ essentially from those which exist in Europe, may be readily conceived. The sources of amusement to the fancy and instruction...exhibit a series of adventures, growing out of the condition of our country} and connected with one of the most common and most wonderful { diseases^}... | |
 | 1895 - 540 pagina’s
...the unbroken wildernesses of the new world. He believed it to be the part of an American to use those "sources of amusement to the fancy and instruction to the heart that are peculiar lo ourselves," and are, as he declared, "equally numerous and inexhaustible." He sought for truth in... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - 1921 - 336 pagina’s
...his time a reforming novelist. For one thing, he thought it was the part of an American to use those "sources of amusement to the fancy and instruction to the heart that are peculiar to ourselves," and which he declares "are equally numerous and inexhaustible." He announced his purpose "to profit... | |
 | Allan Lloyd Smith, Victor Sage - 1994 - 256 pagina’s
..."meaning (Neal's italics) a permanent lesson. Brown's observation, that in America, as well as in England, 'the sources of amusement to the fancy and instruction to the heart are... equally inexhaustible', is followed by Neal with stories that are genuinely American, in setting,... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1998 - 946 pagina’s
...own country, should differ essentially from those which exist in Europe, may be readily conceived. The sources of amusement to the fancy and instruction...exhibit a series of adventures, growing out of the condition of our country, and connected with one of the most common and most wonderful diseases or... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 pagina’s
...own country, should differ essentially from those which exist in Europe, may be readily conceived. The sources of amusement to the fancy and instruction...purpose of this work to profit by some of these sources. . . . One merit the writer may at least claim: that of calling forth the passions and engaging the... | |
 | David Kazanjian - 2003 - 334 pagina’s
...own country, should differ essentially from those which exist in Europe, may be readily conceived. The sources of amusement to the fancy and instruction...exhibit a series of adventures, growing out of the condition of our country, and connected with one of the most common and most wonderful diseases or... | |
 | Harry John Brown - 2004 - 284 pagina’s
...Sleep-Walker (1799), he writes: America has opened new views to the naturalist and politician. . . . The sources of amusement to the fancy and instruction...exhibit a series of adventures, growing out of the condition of our country. . . . One merit the writer may at least claim; that of calling forth 13.... | |
 | Michael Cody - 2004 - 220 pagina’s
...own country, should differ essentially from those which exist in Europe, may be readily conceived. The sources of amusement to the fancy and instruction...ourselves, are equally numerous and inexhaustible. He concludes his remarks by turning again to the American reader for approval: "The success of his... | |
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