Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... 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 is often a kind of prophecy ...
... 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 is often a kind of prophecy ...
Page 812
... nature and with life ; with the order about it , and the inward and outward happenings of its life . Work and play , the conscious putting forth of en- ergy and the unconscious responsiveness to all manner of impressions , must be kept ...
... nature and with life ; with the order about it , and the inward and outward happenings of its life . Work and play , the conscious putting forth of en- ergy and the unconscious responsiveness to all manner of impressions , must be kept ...
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... Nature , " so full of his penetrating insight into the spiritual symbolism of nature phenomena and processes ; Longfellow had returned from that first year of foreign residence which had enriched his fancy , and through the sympathetic ...
... Nature , " so full of his penetrating insight into the spiritual symbolism of nature phenomena and processes ; Longfellow had returned from that first year of foreign residence which had enriched his fancy , and through the sympathetic ...
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... nature but intense convictions , who was speaking to hos- tile audiences and braving the perils of mob violence in his advocacy of the anti - slavery cause . These names suggest the purity and aspiration , the high idealism and the ...
... nature but intense convictions , who was speaking to hos- tile audiences and braving the perils of mob violence in his advocacy of the anti - slavery cause . These names suggest the purity and aspiration , the high idealism and the ...
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... nature of Poe's material has had something to do not only with foreign appreciation of his genius , but with the ... natural setting , the same normal relationship to obvious social or political conditions . The tragic element in Poe's ...
... nature of Poe's material has had something to do not only with foreign appreciation of his genius , but with the ... natural setting , the same normal relationship to obvious social or political conditions . The tragic element in Poe's ...
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