Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... mind might have foreseen the coming of Haw- thorne ; for the great romancer , who was to search the Puritan conscience as with a lighted candle , was rooted and grounded historically in the world behind him . There was that in Hawthorne ...
... mind might have foreseen the coming of Haw- thorne ; for the great romancer , who was to search the Puritan conscience as with a lighted candle , was rooted and grounded historically in the world behind him . There was that in Hawthorne ...
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... mind was to make him the in- terpreter of the Old World to the New . Hawthorne , born five years earlier than Poe - so like him in certain aspects of his genius , so unlike him in temperament and character - destined to divide with him ...
... mind was to make him the in- terpreter of the Old World to the New . Hawthorne , born five years earlier than Poe - so like him in certain aspects of his genius , so unlike him in temperament and character - destined to divide with him ...
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... mind of man - something which allies him with the creative energy , and permits him to share it . The fact that he is sometimes unworthy of this high disclosure of the ultimate beauty , and sometimes recreant to his faith and his gift ...
... mind of man - something which allies him with the creative energy , and permits him to share it . The fact that he is sometimes unworthy of this high disclosure of the ultimate beauty , and sometimes recreant to his faith and his gift ...
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... mind , the eye , and the ear . older communities , looking at our life outside the circle of its immediate needs and tasks , he has found a recog- nition often denied him among his own people . If Poe has failed to touch us in certain ...
... mind , the eye , and the ear . older communities , looking at our life outside the circle of its immediate needs and tasks , he has found a recog- nition often denied him among his own people . If Poe has failed to touch us in certain ...
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Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh. of mind threw them out of sympathy with the view of art which Poe held , and which has been illustrated in much of the most enchanting poetry in the literature ...
Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh. of mind threw them out of sympathy with the view of art which Poe held , and which has been illustrated in much of the most enchanting poetry in the literature ...
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