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Whether or not we have an American lit erature, we have humor distinctly our own; a portion of it literature, the remainder some thing else, but certainly humor. The accent of sportive fancy, the turn and trick of drollery, were native to Franklin, foremost among our philosophers and statesmen, to Lincoln, our greatest President since Washington, and to Henry Ward Beecher, the commanding genius among our preachers. A complete bibliography of American humor would be a broad mark indeed, for the critics of the motherland, where humor rests on a few resplendent names, shining here and there on the long stretch from Dan Chaucer to Tom Hood. Among those with whom we of to-day are familiar, John Phoenix is admittedly the pioneer. The first of the great modern humorists so Mark Twain styles him in The Library of Humor. It was on the Pacific Coast and at that furiously.
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Whether or not we have an American lit erature, we have humor distinctly our own; a portion of it literature, the remainder some thing else, but certainly humor. The accent of sportive fancy, the turn and trick of drollery, were native to Franklin, foremost among our philosophers and statesmen, to Lincoln, our greatest President since Washington, and to Henry Ward Beecher, the commanding genius among our preachers. A complete bibliography of American humor would be a broad mark indeed, for the critics of the motherland, where humor rests on a few resplendent names, shining here and there on the long stretch from Dan Chaucer to Tom Hood. Among those with whom we of to-day are familiar, John Phoenix is admittedly the pioneer. The first of the great modern humorists so Mark Twain styles him in The Library of Humor. It was on the Pacific Coast and at that furiously.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0267776470
- ISBN 13 9780267776474
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages167
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