“Mislike me not, for my complexion, the sad owed livery of the burnished sun.” When you first open Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper this is one of the first things you read. This quote from Shakespeare seems to state that the book will not show the racist tendencies of the time, but...
The way I progressed through James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers was unique. It took a lot of effort and various strategies for me to get this book finished, but I did finish it. Long ago, I stole the entire Leatherstocking Tales (five paperback copies by varying publishers) from my parents' att...
What can I say that Mark Twain didn't? http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hns..."Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in "Deerslayer," and in the restricted place of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record."And"I ...
Coleridge ALL THIS TIME HETTY had remained seated in the head of the scow, looking sorrowfully into the water which held the body of her mother, as well as that of the man whom she had been taught to consider her father. Hist stood near her in gentle quiet, but had no consolation to offer in wor...
His temper, therefore, must be well observed." SHAKESPEARE. The reader will remember that the wind had not become fresh when Sir Gervaise Oakes got into his barge, with the intention of carrying his fleet to sea. A retrospective glance at the state of the weather, will become necessary to the rea...
That dissembling abominable varlet, Diomed, has got that same scurvy, doting, foolish young knave in his helm. —Troilus and Cressida. It is necessary, in order that the thread of the narrative should not be spun to a length which might fatigue the reader, that he should im...
I have no exquisite reason for't, but I've reason good enough." Twelfth Night. The countenance of Captain Borroughcliffe, when the sentinel admitted him to the apartment he had selected, was in that state of doubtful illumination, when looks of peculiar cunning blend so nicely with the stare of v...
MARK'S PLACE. We shall not attempt to thread the vaulted galleries, the gloomy corridors, and all the apartments, through which the keeper's daughter led her companion. Those who have ever entered an extensive prison, will require no description to revive the feeling of pain which it excited, by ...
I grieve No more for all that thou hast riven! Pass on, in God's name—only leave The things thou never yet hast given.—" LUNT. After every means had been uselessly exhausted to persuade Marble from his design, it only remained to do all we could to make him comfortable and...