Modern Eloquence, Volume 2Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1901 |
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... nature ! and - shall I say it ? — of middle - class nature . Not great , like Goethe , in the stars , or like Byron , on the ocean , or Moore , in the luxurious East , but in the homely landscape which the poor see around them - bleak ...
... nature ! and - shall I say it ? — of middle - class nature . Not great , like Goethe , in the stars , or like Byron , on the ocean , or Moore , in the luxurious East , but in the homely landscape which the poor see around them - bleak ...
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... nature of poetry that you have been kind enough to connect with my name . The greater part of the verses I have written were that product of the lyrical period of youth which is by no means uncommon in modern civilization . It exhibits ...
... nature of poetry that you have been kind enough to connect with my name . The greater part of the verses I have written were that product of the lyrical period of youth which is by no means uncommon in modern civilization . It exhibits ...
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... Nature's medal , the one expressing the eternal order of things , in terms of feel- ing , the other in terms of thought . When men no longer love nor hate ; when suffering causes no pity , and the tale of great deeds ceases to thrill ...
... Nature's medal , the one expressing the eternal order of things , in terms of feel- ing , the other in terms of thought . When men no longer love nor hate ; when suffering causes no pity , and the tale of great deeds ceases to thrill ...
Contents
VOLUME II | 421 |
ELIOT CHARLES WILLIAM | 427 |
EMERSON RALPH WALDO | 437 |
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