Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 811
... kind of originality which inheres in a new race and runs into novel forms we do not and shall not possess ; the kind of originality which issues out of direct and hand- to - hand dealing with nature and life we may hope to de- velop on ...
... kind of originality which inheres in a new race and runs into novel forms we do not and shall not possess ; the kind of originality which issues out of direct and hand- to - hand dealing with nature and life we may hope to de- velop on ...
Page 812
... kind of preparation . To say that literature in this country , to the close of this century , is the product of an old race is not to charge it with lack of first - hand insight and force , but to explain some of its characteristics ...
... kind of preparation . To say that literature in this country , to the close of this century , is the product of an old race is not to charge it with lack of first - hand insight and force , but to explain some of its characteristics ...
Page 823
... kind , and gave that work a sombre and significant background of im- mense artistic value . It is not difficult to find in his earlier verse , as Mr. Stedman has suggested , the influence of Byron and Moore , whose songs were in the ...
... kind , and gave that work a sombre and significant background of im- mense artistic value . It is not difficult to find in his earlier verse , as Mr. Stedman has suggested , the influence of Byron and Moore , whose songs were in the ...
Page 833
... kind , whose tastes were fastidious , whose genius . was full of a distinction which involved and expressed re- moteness from average standards , detachment from the rush and turmoil of practical tasks . A nation at work with grimed ...
... kind , whose tastes were fastidious , whose genius . was full of a distinction which involved and expressed re- moteness from average standards , detachment from the rush and turmoil of practical tasks . A nation at work with grimed ...
Page 835
... kind of righteousness . " I could not afford to spare from my circle , " wrote Emerson to a friend , " a poet , so long as he can offer so indisputable a token as a good poem of his relation to what is highest in Being . " To those who ...
... kind of righteousness . " I could not afford to spare from my circle , " wrote Emerson to a friend , " a poet , so long as he can offer so indisputable a token as a good poem of his relation to what is highest in Being . " To those who ...
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