If American has points of inferiority to English, they are merely matters of degree; if the Americans are, as Oliver Wendell Holme...s said in 1858, "the Romans of the modern world--the great assimilating people," the English are only to an exceedingly limited degree its Greeks. They are tarred too much with the same brush of pragmatism, democracy, industrialism, and materialism for deep cleavage. Even America is not wholly democratic culturally; there are remarkable enclaves of aristocratic culture in the cosmopolitan and tradition-bound society of the Eastern seaboard, whose members look east toward Europe far more than they look west towards the heartland of Americanism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lined with lindens of medium size with hanging droplets of rain distributed among their intricate black twigs according to the fut...ure arrangement of leaves (tomorrow each drop would contain a green pupil); complete with a smooth tarred surface some thirty feet across and variegated sidewalks (hand-built, and flattering to the feet), it rose at a barely perceptible angle, beginning with a post office and ending with a church, like an epistolary novel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The strangest ride that ever was sped Was Ireson's, out from Marblehead!... Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart by the women of Marblehead!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »