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That romance was front the rapture of his own Norse youth and the youth of the Norse literature then so richly and fully adolescent in Bjornson and Lie, and Kielland, and hardening to its somber senescence in Ibsen.
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The anecdote is too palpably simple and single to be regarded as a novella, though there is now and then a novella like The Father, by Bjornson, which is of the actual brevity of the anecdote, but which, when released in the reader's consciousness, expands to dramatic dimensions impossible to the anecdote.
Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878
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The anecdote is too palpably simple and single to be regarded as a novella, though there is now and then a novella like The Father, by Bjornson, which is of the actual brevity of the anecdote, but which, when released in the reader's consciousness, expands to dramatic dimensions impossible to the anecdote.
Some Anomalies of the Short Story (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878
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We girls traveled in a pack, and we called ourselves the Halstonettes: Elsa Peretti, Pat Cleveland, Karen Bjornson.
Anjelica Huston Ariel Levy 2012
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The irresponsible gossip of the time made out that Bjornson discerned in the play some personal allusions to himself; but this Bjornson emphatically denied.
John Gabriel Borkman 2008
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The irresponsible gossip of the time made out that Bjornson discerned in the play some personal allusions to himself; but this Bjornson emphatically denied.
John Gabriel Borkman 2008
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By February, they had called scores of witnesses and recalled many two or three times, but none of the grand juries they convened decided there was reason to criminally prosecute Bjornson.
In Search of Bach Marshall, Robert L. 2000
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Bjornson, Olvir, and Swey were very much like Holdbod the Berserker.
The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980
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The spirit that was now spread abroad was what the Norwegian poet Bjornstjerne Bjornson called "passions 'crying need".
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Fru Bjornson ran forward, and clasped her children in her arms.
Soap-Bubble Stories For Children Fanny Barry
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