The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share
In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share
The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery,… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share
It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it. — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share
