Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 812
... sense independent of character , is conditioned , for its full , free , and highest expression , upon character , the large majority of students of literature are HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE Photogravure after a photograph from life ROCKWOOD ...
... sense independent of character , is conditioned , for its full , free , and highest expression , upon character , the large majority of students of literature are HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE Photogravure after a photograph from life ROCKWOOD ...
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... sense of freedom , the right to be happy , and the faith that life is greater than its works , and a man more important than his toil . A race , like an individual , must get this con- sciousness of possession before the work of the day ...
... sense of freedom , the right to be happy , and the faith that life is greater than its works , and a man more important than his toil . A race , like an individual , must get this con- sciousness of possession before the work of the day ...
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... sense of power , the play of the imagination , the passion for ex- pression for its own sake , which are the certain signs of literature . There is , above all , the dæmonic element , that elusive , incalculable , mysterious element in ...
... sense of power , the play of the imagination , the passion for ex- pression for its own sake , which are the certain signs of literature . There is , above all , the dæmonic element , that elusive , incalculable , mysterious element in ...
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... sense of the earlier Southern statesmen gave the stirring and formative periods of our early history epic dignity . In such a society Bacon might have found food for those organ - toned essays on the greatness of states and the splendor ...
... sense of the earlier Southern statesmen gave the stirring and formative periods of our early history epic dignity . In such a society Bacon might have found food for those organ - toned essays on the greatness of states and the splendor ...
Page 826
... inexhaustible spiritual suggestive- ness which is at once the inspiration of art and its burden . Poe is distinctively and in a unique sense the artist in our literature the man to whom beauty was a constant and 826 HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE.
... inexhaustible spiritual suggestive- ness which is at once the inspiration of art and its burden . Poe is distinctively and in a unique sense the artist in our literature the man to whom beauty was a constant and 826 HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE.
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