"Unliterary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the very marrow of Americanism. He is as intensely and as typically American as Franklin or Emerson or Hawthorne. He has not a little of the shrewd common-sense and the homely and unliterary directness of Franklin. He is not without a share of the aspiration and the elevation of Emerson; and he has a philosophy of his own as optimistic as Emerson's. He possesses also somewhat of Hawthorne's interest in ethical ...
— Inquiries and Opinions • Brander Matthews
... is an offer, but not of THAT sort,' said Bessie, and she explained what the unliterary Admiral had not understood. He answered with ...
— More Bywords • Charlotte M. Yonge |
