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3) I have lived long enough in the ―world,‖ not meaning thereby the southeast corner
of the northwest township of Connecticut, to understand that we are a vast way behind
older nations, in thought as well as deed, in many things; while, on the opposite hand,
they are vast way behind us in others. I see no patriotism in concealing a wholesome
truth; and least of all shall I be influenced by the purility of a desire to hide anything of
this nature, because I cannot communicate it to my countrymen without
communicating it to the rest of the world. If England or France had acted on this
narrow principle, where would have been their Shakespeares, their Sheridans, their
Beaumonts and Fletchers, and their Molières!
(The Redskins – CSPCT, Vol. 29, Ch. I, p. 10, 1846)
D) GILES FLETCHER, THE YOUNGER (1585 - 1623)
1) ―Upon two stony tablets, spread before her,
She lean‘d her bosom, more than stony hard,
There slept th‘ impartial judge, and strict restorer
Of wrong, or right, with pain or with reward;
There hung the score of all our debts, the card
Where good, and bad, and life, and death, were painted;
Was never heart of mortal so untainted,
But when the roll was read, with thousand terrors fainted.‖
Giles Fletcher, Christ’s Victory in Heaven, I. xv.
The Deerslayer – Cooper Edition/SUNY, Ch. XXVI,
epigraph, , p. 446, 1841
55) ―SMOKE I SEE COMING OUT OF THE HOLD‖
[=SMOKE + SEE + COME OUT + (HOLD)]
HELMSMAN:
―Dick Fletcher, what‘s all that smoke I see coming out of the hold?‖ (lines 62-63)
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER:
1) Suddenly a streak of flame flashed from her decks, springing fiercely from sail to
sail. A vast cloud of smoke broke out of the hull, and the deadened roar of artillery
followed. To this succeeded, for a time, the awful yet attractive spectacle of a
burning ship. (The Red Rover – Cooper Edition/SUNY, Ch.
XXXII, p. 433, Nov. 1827)
2) God be praised! there is the chientè [=shanty] at any rate; and there‘s smoke comin‘
out of it, if my eyes don‘t deceive me! Look, Bourdon, for I can scarcely see, at all.‖
(The Oak Openings – CSPCT, Ch. V, p. 47, Aug. 1848)
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