A General Survey of American Literature By Mary Fisher
A General Survey of American Literature By Mary Fisher
Mary Fisher
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Descriptions of places and people make up the bulk of them, rapidly sketched outlines of notabilities whom he has met, and he met many of them, but these sketches are limited to the external appearance. Whenever he feels obliged to speak of himself, he apologizes for his egotism, and gets rid of the neces sity of such speaking in as few words as possible. But he has not so successfully kept himself out of his histories ; he is not a cool, indifferent narrator of events. His pulse quickens, his ...color rises as he narrates the horrible atrocities of the Inquisition, and the cold, perfidious cruelty of Philip II. Of Spain ; and he loves his hero, William of Orange, grows tender over him, and spares no pains of research to pay a tribute to his greatness. Prescott wrote to him: " You have laid it on Philip rather hard. Indeed you have whittled him down to such an imperceptible point that there is hardly enough of him left to hang a newspaper paragraph on, much less five or six volumes of solid history, as I propose to do.
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