Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 819
... give form to the beau- tiful idea or image or truth because it is beautiful . Of the naïveté of the old ballad , the careless rapture of Chaucer when the lark sings and the meadows grow sweet with the breath of May , the free and joyous ...
... give form to the beau- tiful idea or image or truth because it is beautiful . Of the naïveté of the old ballad , the careless rapture of Chaucer when the lark sings and the meadows grow sweet with the breath of May , the free and joyous ...
Page 821
... give early American literature its distinctive notes . To these earlier poets , romancers , and essayists were , later , to be added the name of Sidney Lanier , whose affluent na- ture needed another decade for its complete unfolding ...
... give early American literature its distinctive notes . To these earlier poets , romancers , and essayists were , later , to be added the name of Sidney Lanier , whose affluent na- ture needed another decade for its complete unfolding ...
Page 822
... give wings and fire to high argument for the rights of men ; now the imagination began to speak , by virtue of its own inward impulse , of the things of its own life . In religion , in the social consciousness , in public life , there ...
... give wings and fire to high argument for the rights of men ; now the imagination began to speak , by virtue of its own inward impulse , of the things of its own life . In religion , in the social consciousness , in public life , there ...
Page 829
... gives place to the national , the American estimate of Poe will approach more nearly the foreign estimate . That estimate was based mainly on a recognition of Poe's artistic quality and of the marked individuality of his work . Lowell ...
... gives place to the national , the American estimate of Poe will approach more nearly the foreign estimate . That estimate was based mainly on a recognition of Poe's artistic quality and of the marked individuality of his work . Lowell ...
Page 831
... gives its working out at the hands of both writers a touch of remoteness , and in some cases an element of unreality . Poe , like Hawthorne , gives expression to the ideality of the American mind : an ideality disclosed in very ...
... gives its working out at the hands of both writers a touch of remoteness , and in some cases an element of unreality . Poe , like Hawthorne , gives expression to the ideality of the American mind : an ideality disclosed in very ...
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