"The two most common charges against the older……" — Carl Clinton Van Doren
"The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure."
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Carl Clinton Van Doren
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12 Quotes by Carl Clinton Van Doren
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course…
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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
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It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without…
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Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale…
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when…
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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to…
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest…
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject,…
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports…
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