Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 823
... seems to have been foreordained by the conditions of life on the new continent ; and , later , Whitman and Lanier stand for and are bound up in the fortunes of the New World , and its new order of political and social life . Poe alone ...
... seems to have been foreordained by the conditions of life on the new continent ; and , later , Whitman and Lanier stand for and are bound up in the fortunes of the New World , and its new order of political and social life . Poe alone ...
Page 827
... seem a very unimportant affair ; its per- fection of pose and molding might not wholly escape them , but the emotion which swept Heine out of himself when he first stood before it would seem to such men hysterical and unreal . When the ...
... seem a very unimportant affair ; its per- fection of pose and molding might not wholly escape them , but the emotion which swept Heine out of himself when he first stood before it would seem to such men hysterical and unreal . When the ...
Page 830
... 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 most men . They are , however , essentially subjective ; for the ...
... 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 most men . They are , however , essentially subjective ; for the ...
Page 831
... seem as if , so far , the imagina- tion of the country had not been adequate to the task of penetrating and illuminating its immense practical ener- gies ; or as if its activities were too vast and varied to admit of imaginative ...
... seem as if , so far , the imagina- tion of the country had not been adequate to the task of penetrating and illuminating its immense practical ener- gies ; or as if its activities were too vast and varied to admit of imaginative ...
Page 846
... seem in the least intrusive . He was above the temptation of power . He spurned the suggested He would have no honor which the people did crown . not bestow . An interesting fact - and one which I love to recall - is that the only time ...
... seem in the least intrusive . He was above the temptation of power . He spurned the suggested He would have no honor which the people did crown . not bestow . An interesting fact - and one which I love to recall - is that the only time ...
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