This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... of the writer (which in some instances are not the best that might be culled), Timothy Flint's description of Red River, for Instance, in his " Francis Berrien " is happily the most Flintlsh as well as the finest passage you could quote from him. Irving's Bracebridge Hall has a passage which is the very tip ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... of the writer (which in some instances are not the best that might be culled), Timothy Flint's description of Red River, for Instance, in his " Francis Berrien " is happily the most Flintlsh as well as the finest passage you could quote from him. Irving's Bracebridge Hall has a passage which is the very tip-toppery of his elegance. In Frisbie's review of Byron there is a passage of rare musical cadence. In Gouverneur Morris you will find a blending of the epigrammatic style of Junlus with much of the polished facility of the old French memoirs--and in John Randolph you have more than the biting sarcasm of Wllkes... Ever yours truly, C. F. Hoffman. 162 ' THE PROSE-WRITERS.' Cambridge, 7 Jan. 1846. My dear Sir W: H: Furness: I should be very glad 15 comply with your request in a more satisfactory manner than it is possible for me t5 d8. My information is not sufficiently extensive, nor is my memory ready enough, t5 enable me, at least without a fortnight's thought and examination, t5 make out even a very imperfect list of those writers wh5se claims may deserve consideration. Nor, while it is clear that some writers should be admitted int5 the work proposed, and others rejected, should I find it easy t5 draw any tolerably definite line separating one class from the other. Wherever I might stop in the selection of writers, after proceeding beyond a very few of the most eminent, I should apprehend that some half-dozen would rise up before me, having claims so nearly equal t5 some half-dozen admitted, that it would be hard t5 say why the latter were taken and the former rejected. But without suggesting any further difficulties, I will show, at least, my desire to comply with any request of yours by throwing out some hints and bringing tSgether some...
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