Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 819
... touching the heights of eloquence in noble argument for the inviolability of those rights which are the heritage of the English race ; but the spontaneity , the freedom , the joyousness , of creative art were not in it . They could not ...
... touching the heights of eloquence in noble argument for the inviolability of those rights which are the heritage of the English race ; but the spontaneity , the freedom , the joyousness , of creative art were not in it . They could not ...
Page 820
... touch of ma- turity ; Emerson was meditating at Concord that thin vol- ume on " Nature , " so full of his penetrating insight into the spiritual symbolism of nature phenomena and processes ; Longfellow had returned from that first year ...
... touch of ma- turity ; Emerson was meditating at Concord that thin vol- ume on " Nature , " so full of his penetrating insight into the spiritual symbolism of nature phenomena and processes ; Longfellow had returned from that first year ...
Page 822
... touch of his pen , is still the product of Puritanism . The breath of the new time was soft and fecundating on the old soil , and the flowers that were soon afield had the hue of the sky and the shy and delicate fragrance of the New ...
... touch of his pen , is still the product of Puritanism . The breath of the new time was soft and fecundating on the old soil , and the flowers that were soon afield had the hue of the sky and the shy and delicate fragrance of the New ...
Page 825
... touch , the ultimate grace of effortless power , elude and baffle him . Shakespeare is never so wonderful as in those per- fect lines , those exquisite images and similes , those fragrant sentences akin with the flowers in their ...
... touch , the ultimate grace of effortless power , elude and baffle him . Shakespeare is never so wonderful as in those per- fect lines , those exquisite images and similes , those fragrant sentences akin with the flowers in their ...
Page 828
... touch us in certain places where we live most deeply and passionately , we have failed to meet him where he lived deeply and passionately . Matthew Arnold held that contemporary foreign opinion of a writer is probably the nearest ...
... touch us in certain places where we live most deeply and passionately , we have failed to meet him where he lived deeply and passionately . Matthew Arnold held that contemporary foreign opinion of a writer is probably the nearest ...
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