Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 811
... hand- to - hand dealing with nature and life we may hope to de- velop on the scale of the Greeks or the English . A great literature must be waited for , and while we are waiting it is wise to be hopeful of the future ; for expectation ...
... hand- to - hand dealing with nature and life we may hope to de- velop on the scale of the Greeks or the English . A great literature must be waited for , and while we are waiting it is wise to be hopeful of the future ; for expectation ...
Page 812
... hand insight and force , but to explain some of its characteristics . Goethe speaks of his mother's joyousness and love of stories . Her temperament was the gift which irradiated the pedantic father's bequest of order , industry , and ...
... hand insight and force , but to explain some of its characteristics . Goethe speaks of his mother's joyousness and love of stories . Her temperament was the gift which irradiated the pedantic father's bequest of order , industry , and ...
Page 826
... hands , the sudden flashing of the " light that never was on sea or land " was a spiritual event of high sig ... hand . which cannot be foreseen , calculated , or controlled ; a quality not dissociated in its perfect expression ...
... hands , the sudden flashing of the " light that never was on sea or land " was a spiritual event of high sig ... hand . which cannot be foreseen , calculated , or controlled ; a quality not dissociated in its perfect expression ...
Page 830
... hand , lies deep in the recesses of indi- vidual temperament , and seems remote , unreal , and fan- tastic , unless we approach it sympathetically . Some of it is unreal and phantasmal ; but the potentialities of Poe's tragedy are in ...
... hand , lies deep in the recesses of indi- vidual temperament , and seems remote , unreal , and fan- tastic , unless we approach it sympathetically . Some of it is unreal and phantasmal ; but the potentialities of Poe's tragedy are in ...
Page 831
... 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 different ways by Emerson and Lowell ...
... 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 different ways by Emerson and Lowell ...
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